WHITE MAN’S WAYS.
NATIVEB LEARNING. The ghosts of aboriginal heroes are walling uneasily among the back country gums. ’A birthday party was held on the Corakl native reserve, and to the tune of “Wild Irish Rose” and other jazz rhythms, from accordion and mandolin' the guests danced the Charleston, •tango, waltz, and ouc-step, says the Sydney Sun. And —shades of King Billy!—thero was even a “spot.” dance. No corroboree, no boomerangs, not even war paint, except as any modern lass knows it. Sighs for the good old days will not bring them hack, for, according to the secretary of the Aborigines’ Protection Board (Mr Bennett), they are gone for ever. "Air the coast natives are sophisticated now,” ho said. "You will have to go back of Bourko to find Hie old type, with tribal dances and music. “At. La Perouse there are still one or two old men who ran sing Hie aboriginal ditties, but soon the old customs will be Just a memory. The bush natives are passing.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18776, 26 October 1932, Page 2
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