[“Aborigines Amelioration”, The Hedland Advocate (Port Hedland, WA), Saturday 02 July 1910, page 5]
Aborigines’ Amelioration
Perth, June 27.
Mr S.P. Mackay, owner of Mundabullangana station, Port Hedland, has handed Sir Edward Wittenoom a cheque for £1,000, to be used as Sir Edward Wittenoom thinks best for the purpose of ameliorating the condition of the aborigines.
Mr Mackay, in forwarding the cheque, said the work of the Government in the direction indicated should be largely supplemented by pastoralists(*), who had made large profits as the result of the occupation of large tracts of country formerly used as hunting grounds by the natives.
[* In the Advocate of May 14 we advocated this principle, and two squatters (of the class who work the niggers until diseased, and then turn them over to the State to cure,) promptly ordered us to discontinue sending to them a paper which dared express such views. —Ed.]
AB notes:
Suggests a wide divergence in attitudes of squatters.
27 jun 1910: Hedland Advocate reports £1,000 donation from S. P. Mackay. No mention of Daisy or the expedition, but it appears from other sources (below) that it was Bates who proposed that the donation be made available to Radcliffe-Brown’s expedition.
