The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 10
Extract from a copy of a reply from Governor Sir G. Grey, K.C.B., to the letter of the Aborigines Protection Society
Extract from a copy of a reply from Governor Sir G. Grey, K.C.B., to the letter of the Aborigines Protection Society.
April 7, 1864.
"Sir—
"The object of the local Government, therefore, has been to secure to that numerous part of the Native population who have taken no active share in the present war, the whole of their landed possessions; and, also by laws framed expressly for this object, to give to the lands held by such Natives a value greater than they have previously had for their owners, by; in all respects, giving page 19 them equal rights in their landed possessions with those enjoyed by their European fellow-subjects: the intention in this respect being to show that the rights of peaceable citizens, of whatever race, are carefully respected, and to give the Natives so valuable a stake in the country that they are not likely hereafter to hazard it lightly.
G. Grey."