The Country Women’s Association hostel, Murwillumbah opened in 1950. It was a boarding hostel for high school girls. In 1951, following discussion of the hostel’s financial and progress reports at a public meeting of the Murwillumbah Parents and Citizen’s Association, the decision was made to close the hostel. Some of the 15 girls who had…
The Anglican Diocese of Grafton is one of the 23 Dioceses which constitute the Anglican Church of Australia (formerly the Church of England). It was first established in 1868 as the Anglican Diocese of Grafton and Armidale but became its own diocese in 1914. The Anglican Diocese of Grafton covers the coastal area south of…
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.
St Clair Mission, located on the southern bank of Lake St Clair, between Muswellbrook and Singleton, was an Aboriginal mission that was established by Reverend JS White in 1893. In the late 1890s Retta Dixon, a Baptist missionary, moved to the Mission. In 1905 she formed the Aborigines Inland Mission and took formal control of…
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…
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