SHOOTING OF ABORIGINALS
A MINISTER'S PROTEST
(By Telegraph—Press Association)
(Received ]2lli November, 0.5 am.) DARWTX, This Day. The Rev. A. McGregor, commenting on the shooting of seventeen aboriginals by the police, said: "It is an anomaly to shoot, seventeen natives like so many kangaroos, when yon intend to spend thousands of pounds on a trial to give two others, who survived, the benefit of British justice. J do not feel vindictive, but 1 intend to try to persuade the Australian public that this thing shall not occur again. Settlers and police should be consistent ill their indignation respecting the Brooks murder. Let the settlers dispose of coloured mistresses, so that the only trouble rankling in the native mind, besides a few kicks and curses, may be the question of hunger owing' to drought."
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 12 November 1928, Page 2
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