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These records are held by National Archives of Australia (1998 - current).
Visit to Australia of Major-General Hawthorn, director and secretary of Fairbridge Society is a file held by the National Archives of Australia. It is part of the correspondence files of the Commonwealth Immigration Department. It contains information about the activities of the Fairbridge Society in Australia.
Open access.
The hard copy file is held at the National Archives of Australia in Canberra. A digital copy is available online.
The file relates to visits to Australia by Major-General Hawthorn, the director and secretary of the Fairbridge Society in the United Kingdom.
There is information in this file about the operations of the various institutions run by the Fairbridge Society in Australia, in Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania and New South Wales, as well as information about the Northcote Farm School in Victoria.
Within these records there is information about Fairbridge’s Family Migration Scheme which began in the late 1950s. The One Parent scheme (also known as the “parent following” scheme) and Two Parent scheme provided a means for child migrants to come to Australia and be joined by members of their family later. This new approach was the result of policy changes in the United Kingdom which led to fewer children being “available” to travel unaccompanied to Australia through child migration schemes.