SHOOTING OF ABORIGINES
ANOTHER VERSION
NATIVES ATTACK TRACKERS
<IV CABLE-PBBSB ASSOCIATION—COPYBIGHT. PERTH, Sept. 2. Another version of the alleged massacre of Aborigines, cabled on Wednesday, states that a constable and another white man, accompanied by a munher of black trackers,• were seal oiling for a native wanted on a' charge of the murder of a. white man named Hay. Trackers preceding the white men came upon a native camp. The natives showed fight and attacked the trackers with spears and other weapons. The trackers replied with revolvers and shot dead seven natives before they secured the alleged murderer and rejoined their white companions. One tracker was wounded.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 3 September 1926, Page 5
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107SHOOTING OF ABORIGINES Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 3 September 1926, Page 5
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