This file contains correspondence between the Prime Minister’s Department, the Commonwealth Immigration Office and the Premier’s Department, South Australia, relating to the scheme to introduce 6 000 British boys for farm work, 2 000 per year for three years, commencing in 1922. Quantity: 65 pages. Access Conditions Open. Under the Archives Act 1983, most Commonwealth…
This series consists of completed application forms for unaccompanied migrants under the age of 21, giving personal details, address in the United Kingdom, referees, name of parent or guardian, date of arrival in South Australia and the name of the ship. It also contains correspondence between the child and the Department and between the Department…
This series consists of completed application forms for assisted passage for immigrants travelling to South Australia from the United Kingdom, including boys travelling to work as farm apprentices in Australia under the Balliol Boys’ Club and Dreadnought immigration schemes. The forms include personal details about the applicants, their address in the United Kingdom, referees, name…
This series contains completed application forms for boys who travelled to South Australia under the British Boy Farm Apprentice Scheme, also known as the Barwell Scheme. The forms include personal details for each boy, address in the United Kingdom, referees, name of parent or guardian, date of arrival in South Australia and the name of…
This series contains completed application forms for boys who travelled to South Australia under the Big Brother Scheme. The forms include personal details for each boy, address in the United Kingdom, referees, name of parent or guardian, date of arrival in South Australia and the name of the ship they travelled on. Files also contain…
Records of the Anglican Church’s Poonindie Mission (based around St Matthew’s Church), comprising financial records, records relating to wool sales, monthly pay sheets, reports from the medical officer and school master, annual reports and balance sheets, quarterly native residents’ returns, correspondence and printed reports. Access Conditions For access to many Anglican records held at the…
Album of views of Mareeba Babies’ Hospital is part of The Babies’ Hospital Association collection at State Library of South Australia. According to Finding Your Own Way the album contains many photographs of babies, including Aboriginal children. Some photographs are labelled with names, others are not. Quantity: 1 album. Access Conditions Researchers can have access…
Reports give numbers of children admitted to Mareeba Babies Hospital and details about the kind of work being done there. Some reports include photographs. Date range – 1915-1951 with gaps. Access Conditions Researchers can have access to documents, photographs, recordings and transcripts held at the State Library of South Australia on presenting their Readers Ticket….
Most correspondence relates to staff and maintenance. Includes one list of admissions and discharges for 1932 with no names. Access Conditions Researchers can have access to documents, photographs, recordings and transcripts held at the State Library of South Australia on presenting their Readers Ticket. Readers Tickets are available from the Library. Records, recordings and transcripts…
Only volumes 1 and 2 contain entries relating to the establishment of the Mareeba Babies hospital and discussion regarding staffing and equipment. Quantity: 5 volumes. Access Conditions A Research Centre Members card, obtainable at the Archives, is required to research records held at State Records. Although some very early records relating to children in care…
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