MAPOON MISSION

Otago Witness, Issue 2894, 25 August 1909, Page 24

MAPOON MISSION

BRISBANE, August 20. The findings in "t£« Mapoon Mission inquiry, which ane now made available, show that the members of the Commission disagreed. Mr Milman, the police magistrate, found that the methods adopted for punishing the girl Ellen were warranted Under the peculiar circumstances Hey was in at the time* There* was no suggestion ot cruelty or harshness on the part of Hey. It had cropped up, he eaid, during the course of the inquiry that though plenty of opportunities were given him Baltzer was not present. i Mr Jardine (magistrate) expresses tlxe opinion that the punishment inflicted by I Hey and his assistants was carried' out with unnecessary harshness and severity,! more especially when their calling was! taken into consideration. Mr Howard, Chief Protector of the Aborigines, considered that Ellen was ' most cruelly treated. It was. also evident that other natives had been beaten in a more or lees severe manner with the faU knowledge of H^y. He addgi "l x

cannot conceive how those who profess to teach the higher principles of religion and humanity could so prostitute their calling by such inhuman actions as thos« discloesd to me."