TRAGEDIES OF OUTBACK.
Eager though thousands of people are to endure for the sake of a permanent home and assured livelihood the rigors of a rough isolated life it is nevertheless, a cruel imposition to take advantage of that natural aspiration and condemn men and women to live in roadless, unapproachable loneliness. The cry of the; women against this has been bitter and insistent, but the ears of authority ‘were usually attuned to other sounds. Not until last year was an adequate effort made by Parliament to grant justice to the people of the wilds, and then to his everlasting discredit the. leader of the Opposition was unable to recognise the equity of the deed and raised his worn-out hollow cry of “graft.”—“New Zealand Times.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2454, 19 March 1909, Page 2
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125TRAGEDIES OF OUTBACK. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2454, 19 March 1909, Page 2
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