SHOT FOR SPORT
OLER.GYMAN’B ALLEGATION. BRISBANE, May 12. “I can prove by Government records that the-e poor people have been shot for'sport by white men,” said the‘Rev. G. K. Kirkc, in introducing the report of the committee on missions do’ aborigines, at the Queensland Assembly of th,c Presbyterian Church of Australia to-day. It had been contended, he said, that aborigines were dying out, but they would not if properly treated. There had been a suggestion that one of the mission stations' might have to. be closed, hut it was not merely, a question of maintaining a mission station in North Queensland; it was a national matter, which concerned the whole of the Commonwealth^because the aboriginal had'been battered and kickedl'
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 May 1933, Page 8
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119SHOT FOR SPORT Hokitika Guardian, 30 May 1933, Page 8
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