Queansland Aboriginals

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume V, Issue 1489, 23 November 1905, Page 2

Queansland Aboriginals

Soiisational Allegations Pita Aaociation. -Copyright., I . Bbiibmb, this day. Thb report ol Dr. Roih, ohiof ptobector of f aborigines, ;in reply to certain itateimnts j made in the Assembly reflecting ou his , administration, h»5 caused coosi Jefable . sensation. He omphatically domes. • a i ftatemsne contained in a petition prestm- . led to Parliament, that he wbb guilty of i taking grossly indeoentphotos of aborigi- . nals, orof conniving at . immoralityand I inhuman and unsatisfactory treatment, • Dr. Eotb deolaHs that in, tho original of i jhispe'titiofl to him there , were noM of ) thejo statement. He denies that he sold i a quantity of eihnologioal specimens, the ; property of the Government, and retained t the proceed). As to a telegram I'iad in • Parliament purlin? to be from (ho Oui rator of the Sydney Museum, stating that he sold themto that institution, Both print a letter from: the ourator stating that ha ! did not see the tologram, and douying i that he purohasod tho specimens. L ; • —m"