BRUTAL TREATMENT ALLEGED
MISSION ADMINISTR ATI ON. GOVERNMENT TO INVESTIGATE. ,'B> rele o raj>h—Pres« Association.) CANBERRA, Nov. 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 concerning native women, which resulted, in. a, keen desire by the natives for revenge and general dissatisfaction with the manner aboriginal missions in the Gulf territory are conducted.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 3 November 1933, Page 5
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