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  Your obedient Servant / E. S. Davis / Clerk.

THIS ITEM IS TOP-NUMBERED TO 7756/1889 Benches H.
Boards Divl
Tinaroo.
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COLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE . QUEENSLAND.
06113
12 . JUL . 89
Recommends that supply of food to
Blacks at Atherton be continued.
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H.
B. D. M.
16/7/89.
Tinaroo Divisional Board,
Herberton, 4th July 1889
The Honorable
The Colonial Secretary
Brisbane
I have the honor by direction
of my Board to urgently request a
continuance of the supplies of food to
the blacks now being brought into Atherton
from the scrub, until some further ar-
rangement is made by our Government
for their future support.
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Clerk of Board
(Div. Tinaroo)
17 . 7 . 89 2391.
I believe that there are about one hundred
blacks now at Atherton & fully two hundred
on the Musgrave & Russell waiting & want-
ing to come in, and if they are allowed
to go back to their old way of living, the
fact of having once tasted of the good
things of civilisation the case for the
struggling settlers will be worse than if
they had never been brought in; as, they
will be apt to do all in their power to
obtain flour & meat either by fair or foul
means.
I have the honor, to be,
Sir,
Your obedient Servant
E. S. Davis
Clerk.