AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES.
POLICE SHOOTINGS JUSTIFIED
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) . (Australian Press Association.)
. CANBERRA, Jan. 3. The board inquiring into the shooting of 17 aborigines last year by the police, following the murder by natives of a station owner in Central Australia, has concluded its_ investigations and found the police were justified in shooting. It exonerates them from blame. The board also 'found no provocation had been given which might reasonably account for aboriginal depredations and attacks on white Central Australian settlers, neither was there any evidence of starvation among the blacks.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 31 January 1929, Page 5
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