Report of Board for Protection of Aborigines NSW 1924

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Report of Board for Protection of Aborigines NSW, for the year ended 30th June 1924

EDUCATION.

Aborigines Schools are located at various centres throughout the State where the children receive an education, based on a special syllabus, which provides for an elementary training in the three Rs and in manual work. These Schools are reported upon by Inspectors attached to the Department of Education, and generally a satisfactory tone is maintained.

Particular care is taken that upon reaching fourteen years of age each child goes either to a training Home or to suitable employment. No one is allowed to remain in idleness on a Reserve, there to get into trouble and raise another generation of illegitimate children who would also become a burden on the State. The problem is thus gradually solving itself as the younger Aborigines are being educated to something higher and have no wish to return to the level of camp life, thus ensuring that in time the necessity for Aborigines Reserves will be a thing of the past.