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IN-LETTER 4884/1901 Aboriginal Protector Nthn. Div

[Stamp] HOME SECRETARY'S OFFICE. QUEENSLAND 04884 22.MAR.1901

[Stamp] * NORTHERN PROTECTOR * OF ABORIGINALS

1901
QUEENSLAND

REPORT OF THE NORTHERN PROTECTOR OF ABORIGINALS FOR 1900
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Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command

TO THE UNDER-SECRETARY, HOME SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.

[Stamp] B.E. 30. 3 1901 No 3559 [...]

Office of the Northen Protector

Cooktown Ist January 1901

Sir, -- In accordance with the wishes of the Minister, I have the
honour to hand you my annual Report on the results of the op-
eration of the Aboriginal's Protection &c ACT of 1897, for the
year ending Dec. 31st 1900. Hitherto it has been my practice to
complete this up to the end of each 30th June - the termination
of the financial year - but it is now intended that my Reports
shall be in harmony, so far as dates are concerned, with those
referring to other Departments under the control of the Home
Secretary. Nominally therefore an Annual Report, this really
deals with my work only for the past six months.

Permits and Agreements. In my last Report I expressed my-
self as strongly adverse to any Chinese or other coloured ali-
ens employing aboriginals, especially when the blacks can ob-
tain equally good employment elsewhere, but that, on the racial
account only, I could not conscientiously refuse any such re-
spectable and law-abiding citizens the right to work them. That
many such reputable ones are to be met with, goes without say-
ing. For instance, in the Mackay Sub-Dristrict [sic], the local Protec-
tor (Sub-Inspector Martin) reports as follows: - "My experience
here is that the Chinese farmers who employ aboriginals treat
them very much better than most of the white people who em-
ploy them. The Chinese offer better wages and, what is more, pay
the aboriginals their wages when due: they also house and feed
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