This article about the Roth Royal Commission, from the Western Mail in February 1905, gives an account of testimony by Montague Sydney Hadley, who was in charge of the Sunday Island Mission, Reverend Alfred Burton, Manager of the Swan Native and Half-Caste Mission and Father Edmund McCormick on behalf of the New Norcia Mission. The article also reports testimony from police, magistrates and others and about funding.
The matter of payment or witholding of wages earned by young people at the Swan Native Mission was outlined by the Manager in evidence at the Roth Royal Commission in 1905.