NORTHERN TERRITORY

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 87, 7 January 1920, Page 7

NORTHERN TERRITORY

EVIDENCE BEFORE COMMISSION

ALLEGED ILL-TREATMENT OF

ABORIGINES

By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright

Darwin, January 6. At the Commission Mr. H. E, Carey was cross-examined at length regarding the allegations that certain officers connected " -With the Aborigines Protection Department wero got rid of in order to prevent the truth coming out regarding the alleged ill-treatment and debasement of the aborigines. Carey denied this. He also denied the insinuation that tho only men wanted by tho Gil/uth Administration were enngers and crawlers, or that the Palmereton District Council was abolished because Gilruth could not manipulate it and another council with three Government members out of seven was substituted. The evidence disclosed that,the expenditure on one Government demonstration farm was and the revenue from the farm was „C 782. On another farm the expenditure was .£ll3O, and revenue £%, spread over several years.' The solicitor, Mr. Barrett, asserted that Gilruth did not desire agriculture to succeed in the Territory. He wanted to decry Hie White Australia policy and sell the Territory to a syndicate like the British South Africa Company. Carey admitted that the Administration never had anyone on the demonstration farms who could demonstrate, but he denied that the policy was to show that the Territory was no good to white men, with a view to selling it to the Meat Company.—Press Assn.