Correspondence and reports relating to Cleland's position as a member of the South Australian Advisory Council of Aborigines (1932-1936), Chairman of the Aborigines Protection Board (1940-1962) and member of the Aborigines Advisory Board (1962-1965)

Archive Collections / Sir John Burton Cleland / Series AA 60/03 / Correspondence and reports relating to Cleland's position as a member of the South Australian Advisory Council of Aborigines (1932-1936), Chairman of the Aborigines Protection Board (1940-1962) and member of the Aborigines Advisory Board (1962-1965)

Folder of papers includes:

  1. Letter apparently written by Dr Charles Duguid (see AA 79) to South Australian Commissioner for Public Works on 14 August 1936 relating to proposed establishment of Presbyterian Mission in Musgrave Range.

  2. Paper by Cleland 'Introduction to a discussion of racial problems between Europeans and Aboriginal Australians'. 1944.

  3. Paper by CP Mountford (see AA 228) 'The problem between Black and White'.1944.

  4. 'Racial problems between Europeans and Australian Aboriginals. Discussion and summary on the paper by Professor J. B. Cleland and Mr CP Mountford'.

  5. 'Memorandum of visit to Murray Bridge and Point McLeay Station with the Chief Protector of Aborigines, on February 4th-6th, 1937' by JB Cleland.

  6. 'Itinerary of trip north, April 1948' by C Duguid (see AA 79), describing his visit to Ernabella during the measles epidemic. 1948.

  7. 'Report to the Chief Protector on the mortality of infants at Hermannsburg, covering the years from 1926-1930' by Pastor Friedrich Wilhelm Albrecht (see AA 662), plus additional notes on births and deaths by Dr Henry Kenneth Fry (see AA 105).

  8. 'Impression gained during a visit to Point Pearce Aboriginal Station with the Hon. Commissioner of Public Works and the Chief Protector of Aborigines, February 1934' by JB Cleland.

  9. Letter from Dr Wells at Maitland to Cleland on 15 April 1934 regarding discipline and other problems at Point Pearce, and reply from Cleland, 18 May 1934. Letter from Dr Wells on 17 March 1936 and reply from Cleland on 26 March 1936.

  10. Letter from Rev. Stolz, President of United Evangelical Lutheran Church in Australia to Cleland on 30 August 1935 providing some details of the history of Kopperamana, Killalpaninna and Hermannsburg Missions.

  11. Letter from W Cooper, Australian Aborigines League, on 16 January 1937 to Prime Minister proposing items for discussion at the upcoming conference of State and Commonwealth authorities. Additional correspondence from Women's Christian Temperance Union of South Australia.

  12. Letter from Banks Long at Point Pearce to Cleland on 19 November 1935 referring to Cleland's recent address to the Royal Society (?) on Aboriginal rights.

  13. Letter from Dr Grenfell Price to Cleland on 12 April 1944 relating to assimilation.

  14. Letter from WR Penhall, Secretary of Aborigines Protection Board, to Cleland on 16 December 1949 relating to the trials in Port Augusta of Harry Taylor for assault on a white man at Todmordon, Mick for manslaughter, and John Sharpe for assault.

  15. Notes relating to the establishment of the Ernabella Mission. 19 March 1959.

  16. Correspondence relating to the history of Sussex Street Aboriginal Women's Home.

  17. Newspaper clipping entitled 'Native Measles Epidemic Takes Heavy Toll'. 15 June 1948.

  18. Letter from Cleland to Sir Lyell McEwin, South Australian Minister for Mines, on 23 July 1962 discussing poor living conditions at Andamooka and Coober Pedy for Aboriginal and European people. Reply from McEwin dated 3 September 1962.

  19. Draft paper by TGH Strehlow 'Anthropology and the study of languages', originally presented as the Presidential Address in the Anthropology Section of the Australian and New Zealand association for the Advancement of Science (ANZAAS) Conference in Perth. 1947.

  20. Correspondence relating to the proposed takeover by South Australian Government of Koonibba Mission. August 1962.

  21. Report by WS (Hade?) to Acting Secretary, Aborigines Protection Board on 3 December 1962 relating to Aboriginal employment and living conditions on pastoral stations, missions and towns in northern South Australia.

  22. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Aborigines Protection Board supplying Cleland with copies of the Auditor General's report.

  23. Notes by Dr C Duguid on the measles epidemic at Ernabella. 1948.

  24. Letter to the Acting Secretary of the Aborigines Protection Board in 1962 from Bray relating to the proposed drainage system at Point Pearce Mission.

  25. Notes and article extracts by Cleland.

  26. Report of survey of venereal disease at Yalata by Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science. October-December 1962.

  27. Police statements and Judge Chamberlain's decision in the case of a murder committed at Coober Pedy in 1964 involving Skinny Jack, Lennon, Lovegrove, Carroll, Allsopp and Murrray.

  28. Report from Prof. Walter Victor Macfarlane (1913 - 1982) to Prof. AA Abbie on physiological and anthropological investigations in the Rawlinson and Tomkinson Ranges. 1963.

  29. 'Items incident to the establishment of a permanent Aboriginal control station west of Oodnadatta.'

  30. Newspaper clippings relating to the discovery of Swanport burial site (River Murray, SA) and other Aboriginal burials.

  31. Transcript relating to half-castes.

  32. List of National Missionary Council resolutions carried in 1937.

  33. Note relating to an Aboriginal guessing game.

  34. Letter to Cleland relating to the use of a Field Naturalists' Society photograph in his lecture and the riddle 'do kangaroos drink'.

  35. Letter to Cleland from Dr Moxon relating to the term 'Australian'. 10 February 1934.

  36. Letter from Superintendent Lennard relating to the 'Death of Aboriginal Chimney Evans'. 6 March 1964.

  37. Letter, galley proof and notes relating to the Panaramitee Aboriginal rock carvings.

CreatorSir John Burton Cleland
ControlAA 60/3/5
Date Range1932  -  1965
FormatsNewspaper Clippings, General Correspondence
Series AA 60/03