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| ‘I never saw the police uncivil in the collection of licenses. I do
not believe that the parties that had to carry out the law did anything
wrong; having had bad laws to carry out they gradually became estranged
from the rest of the community... It was quite impossible for the
authorities and the diggers to have got on quietly under the licensing
system... There was no ill-feeling until the diggers got cause for it.
Since Sir Charles Hotham’s arrival we have been doubly blessed with digger
hunting.’ J.F.L. Foster, Three letters to the Hon. James Frederick Palmer. Melbourne, James J. Blundell, 1855, p. 15. |
ImageTitle The license inspectedArtist S.T. Gill |
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