THE DARWIN INQUIRY
PROPOSED SALE OF TERRITORY. FEARS OF PERSONAL VIOLENCE. BLACK LIST DENTED. (United Press Association.) DARWIN, Jan. 0. Before the Inquiry Commission, Mr Barratt asked Carey: “Did not Dr. Oilruth try to buy the Northern Territory for a private company for £4,000,000 or £5,000,000.” , M Carey replied*. “Xn; he asked the Government if it would sell the Territory to a chartered company. Witness believed that one of the essential points in the. proposed company was that only while labour should he ern ployed. ' Witness further stated that Dr Gdruth and other olfijcials were fairly popular in the territory at first. He considered that the later change of feeling was largely duo to industrial reasons. Witness said he left Darwin fearing personal violence from Bolshevik Russians and other undesirables and extremists. He denied that Dr. Gilruth made a practice of sending round a black list of people who offended the administration in order that these people be debarred from all Government employment.
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Waikato Times, Volume 92, Issue 14258, 8 January 1920, Page 6
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