Mr DEAKIN 15 December, 1886

'It provided for the reservation of the Aboriginal stations only for those aborigines and half-castes and others who, from their intimate connexion, could not be dissevered from them. It also provided for the licensing out of half-castes by the board, so that they may be educated to earn their own living. It provided, further, that half-castes in necessitous circumstances should be supplied with rations or their equivalent in money for three years, with clothing for five years, and with blankets for seven years. With the help of such provisions, it was believed that the half-castes would gradually cease to be a burden upon the State. Clause 5 authorised, in the case of aborigines guilty of breaches of discipline, their removal from the station where they were located, and the forfeiture of the whole or any part of their rations and allowances.

He might add that the Bill was not a Government Bill; it was the Bill of the board; and it was introduced chiefly with the object of making the half-castes useful members of society, and gradually relieving the State of the cost of their maintenance.'