8th January 1933. - The half-caste home
In the afternoon Murch and I went up to the half-caste
home a couple of miles north of the town, at
the original springs, where a person called Freeman had charge. He
whistled up the inhabitants, showed us all over the place and gave us a
look at the kids. There are quite a number of quadroon and octaroons
amongst them, the latter bordering pretty closely on white. The
infants, (up to about two) show no appreciable colouring at all,
developing it later, but they can generally be picked by the eyes,
flattened nose and the legs. Even many pure Arundta babies are little
coloured in infancy. The whole place seems to be neat and clean, but
the standard of education is very low. When they leave, the inmated go
out as stockboys and domestics around the Alice. Freeman said many
interesting things about education and the difference from the first cross on.