14 or 15 Aborigines collect blankets at Paterson in the Hunter Valley. This is a considerable reduction on the 60 Aborigines who did so three years ago. A notice in the local newspaper observed: “A few years more, and the Aboriginals will be amongst the things of the past”. (Maitland Mercury, 6 June 1867 from Paterson News, courtesy of Carl Hoipo, Wollombi Historical Society).