'He was informed that the aborigines at the station were badly fed and clad, and neglected in other ways, and that the state of things was attributable in great measure to the incompetence of the present superintendent.'

'In the early days of the colony, Mr. Green worked as a philanthropist among aborigines. Coranderrk was then a model station; but now it was everything that was bad. The board was for shifting the aborigines of Coranderrk to other stations, but the blacks entertained a feeling of love, akin to that of the white people, for their birthplace. They declared that they would not leave Coranderrk; that the land there was given them by Sir Henry Barkly; that there they had been brought up; and that there they wished to die. And why should they not be allowed to die where they were born? There were not too many of them and they would soon die; but, while they were alive, they should be well treated.'

'The blacks who had been reared there looked upon the place as their property, and, naturally, disliked the idea of going away.'

'. he had great doubts, whether, with the prospect of a railway to Lillydale, Coranderrk was now a good site for an aboriginal station. No doubt Lake Tyers, in Gippsland, would be a much more suitable place.'