[“General News”, Daily News (Perth, WA), Thursday 24 November 1904, page 4]
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Dr. T. H. Roth, who is at present engaged in the Nor’-West, vested with the powers of a Royal Commission, to inquiry into the the treatment and condition of the aborigines in that portion of the State, is at present visiting Derby, He has already spent considerable time and gathered valuable data from Wyndham, Derby, Roebourne, La Grange Bay, and other Nor-west centres. He expects to complete his tour very shortly, and hopes to arrive back in Perth, where his report to the Government will be compiled, before the Christmas holidays.
Contained in a report which the Chief Inspector of Aborigines has received from the magistrate at Shark’s Bay, is a memo to the effect that Father Vindin, a Roman Catholic priest, has been visiting the district, and endeavoring to make the natives recognise their duties in regard to marriage and baptismal ceremonies. The idea, which is regarded as a somewhat novel one in the district, has been means of affording no end of amusement.
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AB notes:
Twenty years on, the Gribble affair seems to influencing attitudes toward missionaries:
“Father Vindin, a Roman Catholic priest, has been visiting the district, and endeavoring to make the natives recognise their duties in regard to marriage and baptismal ceremonies. The idea, which is regarded as a somewhat novel one in the district, has been means of affording no end of amusement.”
