Nawab Khan Inquiry, 1909. Fowler's investigations into the abduction of a ten-year-old Australian girl to India by her Afghan stepfather, Nawab Khan, resulted in his presentation in 1910 of a bill to amend the Immigration Restriction Act. This subseries contains, as well as correspondence on the topic, newspaper cuttings about this and related cases, part of the amendation to the Immigration Restriction Act, 1901-1908, and the Native Labour Ordinance, Papua, 1906
- Component identifier:
- Subseries b)
- Immediate source of acquisition:
- The collection was donated to the Library by Miss D. J. Fowler in 1969.
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- The collection is available for reference.
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- Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
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Parkes PlaceCanberra ACT 2600, Australia
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