NORTHERN TERRITORY.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 January 1920, Page 5

NORTHERN TERRITORY.

EVIDENCE BEFORE THE COMMISSION. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Darwin, Jan. 5. Before the commission Mr. Carey was cross-examined at length regarding allegations that certain officers connected with the Aborigines Protection Department were got rid of in order to prevent the truth coming out regarding alleged ill-treatment and debasement of aborigines. ' Carey denied this. He also denies the insinuation that the only men wanted by the Gilruth administration were cringers and crawlers, or that the Palmerston District Council was abolished because Dr. Gilruth could not manipulate it and another Council with three Government members' out of seven substituted. The evidence disclosed that the expenditure on one Government demonstration farm was £31,000 and the revenue therefrom £782, and that on another farm the expenditure was £ll3O and the revenue £96, spread over several years.

Solicitor Barrett asserted that Dr. Gilruth did not desire agriculture to succeed in the Territory. He wanted to decry the 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 for white men with a view to selling it to a meat company.