AUSTRALIAN HISTORY
PART PLAYED BY CONVICTS SYDNEY, Nov. 3. Mr. H. M. Green, Sydney University librarian, in a lecture on the sesquicentenary celebrations, said that it would be absurd to attempt to dismiss convicts from Australian history. They had played a part in Australian literature as well as in Australian life. A New York message states that the New York Herald-Tribune editori- , ally applauds Mr. Green’s comments. It says that criminals transported to Australia and America were ancestors of a robust new people and a new civilisation. “If penal transportation could work such wonders for criminal Englishmen in early Australia and America, let us not ignore that it was a magnificent and fruitful punishment, which we might well pass on to present offenders.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 279, 24 November 1937, Page 7
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