Title: Correspondence etc, relating to the Geelong & Dutigalla Association
Date: 1835-1836
Accession Number: MS10258
Image Number: pp0015-001-0

Memorandum for J. Batman signed by C. Swanston and others, 1836.

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Memorandum for Mr. Batman.


Management of the Natives.

The first point to be attended to is to keep up
a friendly feeling on their part to the Establishment,
and to insure on their part a feeling of confidence;
and the next is to make as useful to the Association
as possible. - Much may be done by the force of example
through the Sydney Natives - It will be desirable to
have two scales of rations - one for those who will
make themselves useful and a less scale for those
who will not.

That Civilization will best proceed by ~
dividing the Natives into Families, and employing
6 or 8 at each of the Stations, if they can be ~
induced voluntarily to do so - but it must not
be done by compulsion - Habits of labor will only
be acquired by degrees, and if each party were ~
allowed to have a small piece of ground to
cultivate for themselves it will materially assist.

It will be very expedient to appoint Buckley
Superintendent of the Natives for he will be enabled
under Mr. Batman's directions to keep them in
proper order, and to make them understand the
advantage

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