TREATMENT OF BLACKS
BRUTALITY ALLEGED CRITICISM OF MISSIONS CANBERRA, Nov/ -2. Tho 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 Parlia" ment, outlined the charges against the former superintendent who had since been dismissed, respecting brutality and immorality concerning native women, resulting in a keen desire by the natives for revenge, and general dissatisfaction with . the manner in which aboriginal missions in the Gulf territory are conducted. •
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18236, 3 November 1933, Page 7
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