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Natives To
Learn
Sheep Raising
Jlany.of. the natives
at the lm.-acre Yalata
Mission ^Station would
be taucht sheeo .farming.
the chairman of Koonibba
Lutheran -Mission Board
(Pastor E:,Kriewaldt) said
yesterday.
Pastor Kriewaldt said
this at an official ceremony
in which the administra
tion of the station was
handed over to the board.
The.Protector of Abori
gines (Mr. C. E. Bartlett)
and the SA District Presi
dent of the Evangelical
Lutheran Church (Rev. H.
Koehme) visited the station
which is near Fowlers Bay.
to attend the ceremony.
The- property is being
run for the benefit of 400
aborigines; who were for
merly at Ooldea, on the
East-West railway. They
have been living at Yal
' ata for about two years.'
Pastor *E. Kriewaldt.
said, fhere. were 6.500 sheep,
and it was hoped to double
the number by breeding.
An appeal was being made
for £10.000 to purchase the
stock and plant on the sta
tion. K
Contributions could be
sent to the Lutheran
Church Office, 70 Pirie
street, city.
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