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appears to be an aborigine in the uniform of a police tracker, also
suggesting an ongoing aboriginal presence in the town.
By the mid to late 1890s accounts of the Milparinka Sports Day races
included the results of blackfellows' races, regarded as a source of
amusement and mentioned in Appendix E.
Finally, that oral history gathered in the course of my research, reproduced
in the appendices, suggests that aborigines continued to visit the town and
to camp on the creek bank opposite the Chinese gardens subsequent to
1910 and perhaps as late as 1916. However, Harry Blore, whose
memories date from perhaps 1935, stated categorically that 'there's never
been no aborigines round here mate - up at Tib yes but not round here...'
Having made that statement Harry handed to me a stone which he called
an aborigines throwing stone - well rounded and balanced, and certainly
one of the best for throwing which I have come across. Staff at the
Australian Museum when consulted about this stone suggested there was
no record of such an artefact being used by the Australian Aborigines.