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These might well form the subject of a separate report. They were at one time the resort of questionable characters over whom no authority could be exercised. The inclusion of them within the territorial jurisdiction of Queensland has been beneficial to them in one respect — they are no longer infested by the most predacious kind of beach-combers. They are worthy, however, of much more attention than has hitherto been bestowed on them.
British New Guinea. Correspondence respecting Future Administration’, No.65. Victorian Parliament, Papers, 1886, Vol. iii, pp. 7-8 (enclosed with the Memorandum by the Special Commissioner for the Protected Territory of British New Guinea, P.86/958).
(Extract from Report addressed to the Honorable the Colonial Secretary by the Government Resident, Thursday Island, and referred to in Memo, on New Guinea.)
[1 July 1885]
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van der Veur, P.W. (1966). John Douglas to the Colonial Secretary. In: Documents and Correspondence on New Guinea’s Boundaries. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-3706-3_8
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