CHAINED NATIVES
OFFICIAL DENIES RUMOUR
MELBOURNE, 'May 16.
Commenting to-cb.y on an article in . the London “Daily Herald’ alleging that .Northern Queensland aborigines vVF'eVchaino'i like slaves on boaid Japanese fishing vessels, the secretary of the Australian, Board of Missions (tho Rev. M. T. Jones) said lie had never heard of aborigines being cm- | ployed by alien.-. He was certain that (Japanese would not be gt'en permission by the Government to employ the natives. Even when employed on boats owned by Europeans, their conditions and pay were subject to .the strictest supervision by the Government. Mv Jones regarded tb* whole stateinent ias distinctly unusual, and one . aboilt lwhich great caution should be exercised He strongly doubted, the. • truth of the general .statement. He had never heard of (aborigines being chained on fishing vessels, ex-. cept in the case of criminals. The police sometimes put a chain .on a native delinquent.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 May 1933, Page 6
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