This document provides recognition of the efforts of the aboriginal inhabitants of the Forster reserve by a police officer in 1908.

Senior Sergeant Hogan, Taree, Subject : Forster Aborigines Reserve to Sub Inspector Edwards, Kempsey [5/6990, 08/943] (Report, 29 November 1908)

During the late 1800s, the NSW Government’s focus shifted away from religious missions to reserves and stations. Missions were transformed into the first stations operated by the newly established Aborigines Protection Board. Reserves continued to be set aside for use by Aboriginal people.

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Senior Sergeant Hogan, Taree, Subject : Forster Aborigines Reserve to Sub Inspector Edwards, Kempsey [5/6990, 08/943] (Report, 29 November 1908)

The Aborigines Protection Board, missions, stations and reserves