Mister Neville: A Biography by Pat Jacobs

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Secondhand. Good condition. Ex library copy with external stickers, Stamps and stickers on inside pages. Dust jacket is in protective pastic cover. Wear to book edges and corners. Light foxing and minor marks on fore-edges. Binding to preliminary pages has been reinforced.

Biography of the Chief Protector of Aborigines in Western Australia, 1915-1940.

Auber Octavius Neville (1875-1954) was one of scores of young British men of 'good standing but slender means' who looked to a future beyond their own shores. Arriving in Western Australia in 1897, aged twenty-two, to join his brothers, he joined the great movement of English clerks into the Colonial Civil Service.

Government policy and administration; creation and abolition of the North-West Ministry; repercussions of the Forrest River Massacre; influence of eugenics theory; miscegenation and assimilation policy; pass system; Moseley Royal Commission into the treatment of Aborigines, 1934-1936; publication of Australia's Coloured Minority; National Association for the Advancement of Native Races; relation with anthropology; reference to Carrolup, Dampierland, Beagle Bay, Lombadia, Moore River, Moola Bulla. (Trove)