Palmerville

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Earliest/Latest known date

1874 - 1890

Duration of camp/NMP presence

16 years (not continuous)

Desertions

  • 1874: Entire detachment

  • 1875: 5 deserters


 
The blacks appear to exercise great hostility to the new selectors but a strong detachment of native police is to be at once established fifty miles below Palmerville, which is a very wise course on the part of the Police Department, as it will encourage settlement by affording protection to those who risk their lives in opening up the interior.
— Capricornian, 21 January 1882, p15