| Show australian aus i dratian aborigines are rapidly dying out the fhe aborigines of australia probably the most primitive of the surviving races are rapidly dying dolne out it la Is revealed by the report of the commonwealth statistician notes a sydney sydne correspondent in the los an geles coles times the number feir by 10 per cent last year the figure of Is below that which was returned in 1033 and Is tragically lower than the population before the arrival of the first white settler though this was little more than n R century ago the blacks then numbered more than in their native surroundings the aborigines are self reliant and quick under white influence they lose stability white mans diseases have played their part in the decimation of the last century whole tribes have been extinguished by smallpox and tuberculosis european vices appeal readily to them and they fall under the strain more quickly perhaps than any other native race As far back as 1840 one Austra tinn newspaper foresaw extinction of the aborigines it nothing was done to cheeld between the two races inhabiting tile ho southern continent yet thi the future of the natives receives little attention |
