The Pine Creek Home was established by the government at Pine Creek in 1931 to alleviate over-crowding at the Myilly Point Home in Darwin. The first children were moved there in September 1931. Pine Creek Home operated for two years and closed in 1933 and the children were transferred to The Bungalow in Alice Springs and back to the Myilly Point Home in Darwin.
The Pine Creek Home was established by the government at Pine Creek, approximately 200km south east of Darwin, in 1931. It was opened to alleviate over-crowding at the Myilly Point Home near Kahlin Compound, which was also known at the time as the 'Darwin Half-caste Home '. Initially in September 1931 28 boys between four and 14 years of age were removed from Myilly Point and transferred to Pine Creek. The Pine Creek Home closed in 1933, with most of the children being transferred to The Bungalow in Alice Springs and back to the Myilly Point Home in Darwin.
Sources used to compile this entry: 'HALF-CASTE BOYS', The West Australian (Perth, Western Australia), 10 September 1931, p. 8, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32348623; 'HALF CASTE HOME', The Daily News (Perth, Western Australia), 10 December 1932, p. 1, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article82882171; 'Northern Territory: Protectors /Administration / Welfare Branch reports', in To remove and protect: laws that changed Aboriginal lives, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, 2010, http://aiatsis.gov.au/collections/collections-online/digitised-collections/remove-and-protect/northern-territory; Stolen Generations N.T., http://www.ntsgac.org/; NAA: A659, 1940/1/7551 Half-cast home - Pine Creek, NT 1931 - 1941.
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Created: 8 February 2011, Last modified: 7 November 2018