 Efforts to report his tormentors were stonewalled by officialdom, Perth lawyers, and possibly Governor Broome himself.Back at Carnarvon efforts were made to prevent building supplies he had purchased being unloaded.The Missions Committee viewed Gribble's "Letters to the Editor" detailing these events with "unqualified condemnation", and instructed him to have all his future correspondence vetted by them, a condition which offended his "Christian manhood".