ABORIGINAL MISSIONS
Australian Inquiry
ROPER RIVER INCIDENTS
(Received November 2, 10.30 p.m.)
Canberra. November 2.
The Federal Government has agreed to investigate charges levelled against the administration of the Roper River mission of brutal ill-treatment of aborigines. Mr. Nelson, who is the Northern Territory representative in Parliament, outlined charges against the former superintendent, who has since been dismissed, respecting brutality and immorality concern ng native women, which resulted in a keen desire by the mi fives for revenge and general dissatisfaction with the manner aboriginal missions in the Gulf territory are conducted.
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 34, 3 November 1933, Page 11
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