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  night in the camp at the back. Indeed, except for the / baker (a McIvor boy) and three or four orphan girls who / are kept nice and clean and taught sewing etc in Mrs

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I can hard-
ly believe
that this
is really
the case.
[initials] W.E.R.
on the remaining £50, he let out that they were in re-
ceipt of about £400 a year in addition from South Aus-
tralia, but I think he was sorry he did this, for I then
asked him how it was that they wanted still more of a
grant from the Queensland Government. He again told me
he wished I could see their books. So much for the com-
mercial aspect of the mission station.
I went over the main buildings, saw their school
and Chapel-room, visited the kitchen and outhouses and
next to the kitchen saw a shed fitted up with bunks,
for the use of the single young men (blacks): I then
asked to see their accommodation for the young women,
but this was nil, they being allowed to sleep out at
night in the camp at the back. Indeed, except for the
baker (a McIvor boy) and three or four orphan girls who
are kept nice and clean and taught sewing etc in Mrs
Hoerlain's house, and any young aboriginal male loafers
who happen to come in to the covered bunks, there is no
accommodation for any women and girls except outside the
gates (i.e. at the camp, or log-huts). The young chil-
dren, girls and boys, are taught English, writing, and
elementary arithmetic, - but they come and go - just as
they or their parents please: as Mr Max admitted, the
mission people have no control over them, and herein lies
the secret of what I would call their non-success.
There are no permanent blacks at the Mission (with
the exceptions above noted) - their stay on an average
is from about 2 to 3 months, some longer, some shorter,
the average number (including children) being about 50, -
sometimes many more, sometimes many less. Many reasons
conduce