The Government-controlled Aborigines Protection Board is established. Chairperson George Thornton continues to want to clear Koori people from Circular Quay, Balls Head, Rose Bay, Lavender Bay and anywhere else they are living in the inner harbour. He proposes that reserves should be established to enable Koori people to build homesteads and grow crops. It's first address is the Chief Secretary’s Building, 121 Macquarie Street.