Miss Elphick's Boarding House was a privately-run boarding facility in metropolitan Perth that was described in a 1971 survey of Aboriginal education and employment hostels as occasionally accommodating young Aboriginal people, possibly from regional Western Australia, independently of government authorities.
Sources used to compile this entry: Information Services, Department for Community Development, 'pp.343-344', Signposts: A Guide for Children and Young People in Care in WA from 1920, Government of Western Australia, 2004, https://signposts.communities.wa.gov.au//pdf/pdf.aspx.
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Created: 15 March 2011, Last modified: 17 June 2014
Last updated: 17 October 2023
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