ABORIGINE WELFARE
Natives Barred From Meeting (NZ.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) PERTH, May 22. Sixteen aborigines were turned away last night from a publicly-advertised meeting at Kalgoorlie, called to discuss native welfare. The natives—all respectably dressed and well-spoken —arrived outside the Kalgoorlie Shire Council offices before the meeting, but were told by shire president, Mr M. M. Johns, that they could not come in.
“You have not been invited, and it would do you no good to come in,” Mr Johns told them.
The natives repeatedly asked Mr Johns for admission.
An unofficial spokesman, Mr Edward McGrath, a railway fettler, accused Mr Johns of not giving the natives a chance to speak for themselves.
Mr McGrath said it was unfair to turn them away after they had shown enough interest in the problem to attend the meeting.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30448, 23 May 1964, Page 13
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