The Aborigines Question. Evidence Taken by Dr. Roth

Publication Resource Details

In
Western Mail
Publication Date
25 February 1905
Publisher
Charles Harper, J.W. Hackett, James Gibey, for the Western mail office
Place Published
Perth
Page Numbers
12-20
URL
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article37382023
Description
This article about the Roth Royal Commission, from the Western Mail in February 1905, gives an account of testimony by Montague Sydney Hadley, who was in charge of the Sunday Island Mission, Reverend Alfred Burton, Manager of the Swan Native and Half-Caste Mission and Father Edmund McCormick on behalf of the New Norcia Mission. The article also reports testimony from police, magistrates and others and about funding.

Related Information

Benedictines, New Norcia (c. 1846 - )
New Norcia Mission (1848 - 1974)
Orphanages' Committee (1889 - 1939)
Royal Commission to Enquire into and Report Upon [inter alia] the Administration of the Aborigines Department and the Condition of the Natives, State of Western Australia (1904? - 1905)
St Joseph's Native School and Orphanage, New Norcia (1861 - 1974)
St Mary's Mission, New Norcia (1848 - 1974)
Stolen Wages Reparation Scheme WA, State of Western Australia (6 March 2012 - 30 November 2012) Relevance: The matter of payment or witholding of wages earned by young people at the Swan Native Mission was outlined by the Manager in evidence at the Roth Royal Commission in 1905.
Sunday Island Mission (1899 - 1934)
Swan Native and Half Caste Mission (c. 1880 - 1920)

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