I am glad to give my testimony to the zeal and interest shown by Mr. Holden and Mr. W. Newland in their respective positions for the welfare of the natives and the institution; also, to Mrs. Holden for her kind and ready help, and to Mr. Hammond for his valuable services as medical officer.
It is my intention to provide for the natives the means of learning useful trades. As our numbers increase we shall find the importance of having persons on the station who can supply boots and shoes, and execute blacksmiths’ and carpenters’ work of the best kind.
I congratulate my co-trustees on the result of the past year’s operations.
G. W. HAWKES,
Acting Trustee.
Poonindie Native Institution, Port Lincoln, 9 June, 1873.
Dear Sir,
I beg, in accordance with your request, to forward a brief report in reference to the wurley natives of Port Lincoln District, who from time to time seek aid and shelter at this institution.
I would state in this report I make no reference to those natives who have settled down with us from this district, who get constant employment, rations, and wages from the institution.
On referring to my books, I find the wurley natives have received cash payments for work done on the station during (say) the last fifteen months, one hundred pounds eight shillings and fivepence (£100 8s. 5d.), and during the same period they received by rations and clothes one hundred and eighty-two pounds nine shillings and eightpence (£182 9s. 8d.), making a total of two hundred and eighty-two pounds eighteen shillings and one penny (£282 18s. 1d.)
If you should ask the question—“What do the wurley natives do with this ready cash?” They spend it in clothes at Port Lincoln, and in each case that has come under my notice they have spent the money judiciously.