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Davis/Daviesaboriginal contextcorridor placeline 29
on the Laura River. / John Davis / J. P. Wm Fulton JP

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[in red] Residents Cooktown Against removal of Police Camp from Laura
[red stamp] COLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE QUEENSLAND / 07332 / 30.JUN.94
[uper txt written in left margin]
Reply that the ***
of Police is *** on
the Commr. He informs
me that he proposes
to place white police
& tracker at the Laura
which he considers
sufficient
[initialled] HT
Electric Telegraph, Queensland.
Wds.75
Amt. 6/5
From Cooktown ------ 2h. 45m.
Dated [stamped] 23 Jul 94
MESSAGE for Honr The Col Secy
B R I S B A N E.
We the undersigned earnestly request
that you will not have
the native police camp stripped
from Laura as there will
be no protection within one
hundred 100 miles if it is
removed there are at present
about two hundred 200 blacks camped
on the Laura River.
John Davis
J. P. Wm Fulton JP
M Short JP