TREATMENT OF NATIVES
HUMAN REMAINS FOUND IN FIRES.
ay CAB LE —PRES? ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. PERTH, May 5. The North-West Commission on the alleged killing of Australian natives heard .sensational evidence, given in a letter produced by the Commissionr of Police, from Police Inspector Douglas, who stated that he had visited GoJ dego temerrie, where he found 21 human teeth and undoubted burnt human remains at two. fires.
Inspector Douglas had been told that four aboriginal men had been burned at one fire and three gins at the other. In a further statement Inspector Douglas' said that 16 natives had been burned in three lots. Thousands of bone fragments were left in the remains.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 6 May 1927, Page 5
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