Yarra Bay House, Phillip Bay, 7 August 2007, by Bar, J, courtesy of J Bar, Wikimedia Commons.
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Yarra Bay House was established at Phillip Bay, at La Perouse, as an institution for children defined as handicapped by the State Children's Relief Board in 1917. It was converted to La Perouse Training School for Girls in 1923.
Sources used to compile this entry: 'They'll All Enjoy Christmas Parties', The Australian Women's Weekly, 9 December 1933. Also available at http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/51188778; Thinee, Kristy and Bradford, Tracy, Connecting Kin: Guide to Records, A guide to help people separated from their families search for their records [completed in 1998], New South Wales Department of Community Services, Sydney, New South Wales, 1998, https://clan.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/connectkin_guide.pdf.
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