NORTHERN TERRITORY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1716, 6 January 1920, Page 5

NORTHERN TERRITORY.

EVIDENCE BEFORE COMMISSION

LOSS ON DEMONSTRATION FARMS,

By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Australian-New Zealand C bio Association

Received January 6, 9 a.m. PORT DARWIN, Jan. 5. Before the Commission, Mr Carey was cross-examined at length regarding the allegations that certain officers connected with the Aborigines Protection Department were got rid of in order to prevent the truth coming out regarding the alleged illtreatment and debasement of aborigines. .Mr Carey denied that tins'"was true. He also denied the insinuation that the only men wanted by the Gilruth Administration were cringers, and crawlers or that the Palmerston District Council was abolished because Dr Gilruth could not manipulate :t, and that another Council with three Government m mbers out of seven was substituted.

The evidence disclosed that the expend!-, turn on one Government demonstration firm was £31,000. and the revenue therefrom £782 On another farm the expenditure was £ll3O and the revenue £96 spr* ad over several years. Mr Barrett (a solicitor) asserted that Dr .Gilruth did not desire agriculture to suc-c-ed i:> ;b territory, and that he wanted to decn Lii White Australia policy and sell ’!;<> toriitorv to a. syndicate like the British South 'Africa Company'. * ~ ’•- _ 4 - Mi* Caiey dmitted that the administratin' ii v r bod' anyone on the demonstrate :. farms who could demonstrate, br.t he denied that the policy was to show that the ic-ritor was no gcod for white men with a, vie- s to soiling il to a meat company.