AN ANOMALY
POLICE SHOOT NATIVES LIKE KANGAROOS. TO BRING TWO BLACKS TO TRIAL. CLERGYMAN’S SCATHING COMMENT. (Anatrallan Press Association.) DARWIN, Nov. 12. The Rev, A. McGregor, commenting on the shooting of 17 aborigines by the police, said: “It is an anamoly to shoot 17 natives like so many kangaroos when you intend to spend thousands of pounds on a trial to give two others, who survived, the benefit of British justice. J do not feel vindictive, but I intend to try to persuade the - Australian public that this thing shall not occur again. Settlers and police should be consistent. In their indignation respecting the Brooks murder, let the settlers dispose of their colored mistresses, so that the only ■ trouble rankling in the native mind, besides a few kicks and curses, may be the ouestion of hunger owing to the drought.” t
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10742, 13 November 1928, Page 7
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