The Country Women’s Association hostel in Moree was opened in 1956 in Frome Street. It was a boarding hostel for high school girls who lived in isolated areas. With the advent of school buses the building was offered to the Department of Education and became additional classrooms for Moree High School around the early 1970s….
The Country Women’s Association hostel, Tumut was opened around the 1940s. It was a boarding hostel for high school girls and closed around 1970.
The Country Women’s Association Hostel, Dubbo was opened by the Dubbo Country Women’s Association around 1945. It was a boarding hostel to help girls attend secondary school, and closed around 1958. Country Women’s Association Hostel, Dubbo was opened after a Country Women’s Association member, Mrs Matthew Robinson, donated a house in memory of her husband….
The Country Women’s Association hostel, Narrabri was opened in 1946. It was a boarding hostel for school girls. It increased the numbers at the local high school and enabled the school to be reclassified as a full high school. However, by 1958 transport in the area had improved to the extent that students felt they…
The Country Women’s Association Hostel at Inverell opened from 1925-1928 with CWA support, and an official Country Women’s Association hostel was opened in a better house in 1945. It was a hostel for school girls, most of whom boarded during the week and went home on weekends. The Country Women’s Association Hostel, Inverell closed in…
The Country Women’s Association Hostel, Mudgee was opened in 1945, with assistance from local service clubs. It was a hostel for girls who were attending secondary school in town. The Education Department took over the building, but the Country Women’s Association continued to administer it. Country Women’s Association Hostel, Mudgee closed in 1981.
The Country Women’s Association of New South Wales (CWA) is a not-for-profit women’s organisation that works for the welfare of women and their families by raising funds, lobbying governments and teaching life skills. From the 1940s until the 1980s various branches of the CWA ran hostels for rural girls so they could live in town…
O’Brien House was a children’s home mentioned in a 1979 Commonwealth Government report called Why are they in children’s homes: report of the ACOSS children’s home intake survey. No more is known about this Home. If you have information about O’Brien House, please contact the Find & Connect web team using the ‘Contact Us’ button…
The Dominican Sisters of Eastern Australia is a Catholic women’s religious order. In 1867, representatives of an Irish Dominican community founded an autonomous eastern Australian congregation initially based in Maitland, New South Wales (Hellwig, 2020). The Dominican Sisters ran the School for Deaf Girls at Waratah in New South Wales (established 1886), and St Mary’s…
The Warrah Rudolf Steiner School for Curative Education was established in 1969 in Dural. Students from the special school lived in a purpose-built 12 bedroom cottage known as Waratah. In 1969, Waratah housed 15 children, 6 adults and 10 co-workers [staff]. As well as the school, Warrah also had a biodynamic and organic farm. Over…
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