17 BLACKS SLAIN
BY AUSTRALIAN POLICE. INQUIRY HOARD EXONERATES THEM. '.Australian Press Association). (United Service.) CANBERRA, Jan. 30. The Hoard inquirying into the shooting of seventeen Aboriginals lasi year by the police, following’ on a murder by natives of a station owner in Central Australia, has concluded its investigation. The Board found that the police were justified in the shootings. It exonerates them from blame. The. Board also found that there was no provocation given which might reasonably account for Aboriginal depredations and attacks on white Central Australian settlers. Neither was there any evidence of starvation among the blacks.
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Hokitika Guardian, 31 January 1929, Page 6
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