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Sir E. Hallstrom’s NG Experiment

THE amiable Austral-New Guinea philanthropist, Sir Edward Hallstrom, walked unsuspici ously into a large heap of anthrop sociological trouble in Copenhagen last month.

There was an International Zoo logical Conference there, and Sir Edward showed a film entitled “My New Guinea Experiment.” It is a record of the Sydney knight’s at tempt to establish sheep-farming in the Highlands of New Guinea, and it gave details of how sheep were carried in to Nondugl by air, and how cared for. Sir Edward, naturally, thought that this would interest the zoologists.

But an educated Nigerian native.

Dr. S. D. Onabamiro, startled the assembly by making what the news papers called “a tirade of protest" against statements which he re garded as derogatory of New Guinea natives. Sydney Daily Telegraph reports: “He said that the film and the lecture that went with it had no place in a scientific congress, and added: ‘Neither has the lecturer.* “The Russian delegation of six, headed by top zoological scientist E. N. Pavlevsky, rose as one man and went over and congratulated Onabamiro on his speech.

“The remainder of the delegates, top zoological scientists from many nations, sat dazed as the Italian chairman ended the meeting before Sir Edward could defend himself.”

It is ah interesting sidelight on the astonishing spread of Russian propaganda in Darkest Africa. We still do not know how the film was supposed to reflect upon NG natives)