 He determined on setting up a refuge where these women and their children were cared for, away from degrading influences, especially of alcohol.He lamented the fact that Victoria, with one tenth the Aboriginal population of New South Wales, had many Church and State missions, yet the larger colony had none, with the exception of the Maloga Aboriginal Mission School, run as a private philanthropy by Daniel Matthews and his brothers.Thanks to Gribble's efforts, and supported by the people of Darlington Point, an area was set aside by government as an Aboriginal reserve, dubbed Warangesda, a portmanteau of an Aboriginal word and "Bethesda", to mean "house of healing" or "house of mercy", and superintended by Gribble, who with his friend J. J. Lloyd and a handful of Aboriginal men performed the construction work.