Measures Recently Adopted for the Amelioration of the Aborigines (Memorandum Respecting).

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(Brisbane: Edmund Gregory) 1897. F'scap folio. (4pp.). Edges lightly chipped. NOTE: Hozer Tozer was responsible for introducing the controversial Aboriginal Protection and the sale of Opium Act in 1897. Hozer finishes this report by saying 'The Aborigines Bill ...contemplates preserving the aboriginal race from extinction. The coming year ...a systematic effort to place the Queensland aboriginals in a position creditable alike to our sense of national justice and our common humanity...'