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The Dandenong Police Paddocks: early use as Native Police Headquarters and Aboriginal Protectorate Station, 1837-1853 / Marie Hansen Fels.

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Uniform title Occasional report (Aboriginal Affairs Victoria)
Title The Dandenong Police Paddocks early use as Native Police Headquarters and Aboriginal Protectorate Station, 1837-1853 / Marie Hansen Fels.
Publisher and/or associated date/s [Melbourne, Vic.] : Aboriginal Affairs Victoria, 1990.
Description Electronic resource ; Online.
Publication Dates 1990.
Series Occasional report (Aboriginal Affairs Victoria), 0725-7317 Vol. 25, no. 1
Note Report-Series. Melbourne, Vic. RMIT Publishing. 2011.
Conditions of access Available to Museum Staff only.
Summary The site known now as the Dandenong Police Paddocks is gazetted Public Purposes Reserve (Pennanent). It is perhaps one third to one quarter of the size of the original Police Reserve surveyed in 1851 for the Native Police Corps. Prior to this first survey, the land was used for three Aboriginal/European institutions- the 1837 Corps of Native Police under Superintendent Christiaan Ludolph Johannes de Villiers, the Westernport Aboriginal Protectorate under Assistant Protector William Thomas, and the 1842 Corps of Native Police under Commandant Henry Edmund Pulteney Dana.::This history documents the joint Aboriginal/European institutional use of the site from the early contact period until 1852 when Commandant Henry Dana died. Shortly before his death in November 1852, Henry Dana was appointed Commandant of the Mounted Patrol, a European force consisting of two Divisions (one of which was commanded by his brother William) raised for the protection of the roads from the goldfields to Melbourne. The Native Police Corps had ceased to exist as an institution, though there were still Aboriginal troopers who served. After the disintegration of this Corps, the site was taken over by the Mounted Division of the Victorian Police and used as their stud depot until the 1930s.
Subjects Native Police Corps -- History
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Dandenong (Vic.)
Aboriginal Australian police
Dandenong (Vic.) -- History
Other Corporate Bodies Victoria Archaeological Survey
Aboriginal Affairs Victoria
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