NATIVE RACES
Australia As Trustee SYDNEY, December 19. Australia’s dutv as a trustee for the native races in the Pacific was emphasised in resolutions carried by a conference of Anglican archbishops and bishops in Melbourne. The conference adopted a Christian Charter for native peoples drafted by the professor of anthropology at Sydney University. Professor Elkin. The conference affirmed its conviction that after the war both, the Government and the nation would be. in honour bound, to accept the princlole of trusteeship for the native and indigenous races, and to apply to them the principles of the Atlantic Charter, protecting both them and their lands from exploitation by economic and commercial interests, and assisting them to develop both themselves and their land in their own interests.”
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLIV, Issue 22777, 29 December 1943, Page 6
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125NATIVE RACES Timaru Herald, Volume CLIV, Issue 22777, 29 December 1943, Page 6
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