10,000 acres of land are reserved at Reid's Mistake (Awaba)

10,000 acres of land are reserved at Reid's Mistake (Awaba) for the Aboriginal mission station run by Rev Threlkeld under the auspices of the London Missionary Society. Governor Macquarie had written to the Wesleyan missionaries four years earlier: “on the subject of forming an agricultural establishment...Your pious and humane proposal of directing your labours…is highly praise-worthy, and demands my best acknowledgment…I am every way disposed to give all possible facility to your pious endeavours for civilising the poor degraded natives of this country” (MMS : Australia 1 ) ( Heath, 1997: 54). (Arwarbukarl Cultural Resource Association, ACRA)