They've No Community Of Interest (She Says)

Interest (She Says)

It will take some time to bridge the gap and get the majority the New Guinea natives sufficiently educated to be able to eet with others and form a community of interest. This is accord g to Senator Nancy Buttfield, of Adelaide, addressing the Aus ilian Senate recently.

What’s more, she had had an experience in New Guinea, she id, which illustrated what she was talking about. Her point was, e said, that there was no discrimination against natives in New jinea because there was no community of interest. However, they ‘re a charming people, and it was a delight to see their naturalness.

Here is her experience, as related to fellow members of the nate: “I was standing in a Highlands area, having a picnic lunch d talking to the District Officer and, as always happens, a mass natives came around us.

“I had no stockings on and the natives were around my legs lling the hairs. I took no notice. They were evidently rather lused. They had not much hair on their legs, and I thought at perhaps they were being educated.

“Before very long the natives were examining my clothes They d my skirt up, examining what I had on.

“I said to the District Officer, ‘This is getting embarrassing’.

“He replied, ‘You would be more embarrassed if you knew what 5y were saying’.

The point I am trying to make is this: How can I sit down d talk with people who are so amused that they have to pull 3 hairs on my legs? I had nothing to talk to them about.”