Carnarvon Teens Hostel, 1968 - 1969, courtesy of Global Mission Partners, Churches of Christ Federal Aborigines Mission Board Photographs.
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Carnarvon Teens Hostel was a hostel for around ten young people (male and female) in Carnarvon. It opened in 1968, and was part of the Carnarvon Mission that was run the Churches of Christ Federal Aborigines Mission Board (Inc). The hostel aimed to give young people from Carnarvon Mission (later, Ingada Village) an opportunity to live in the Carnarvon township while going to high school, or while they were working.It was located near the Christian Centre and church, and closed in the mid-1980s.
In 2014, a police and court complex was being constructed on the site of the Carnarvon Teens Hostel.
Sources used to compile this entry: Carnarvon Mission Ingada Village [Document], Date: 22 April 2014; Carnarvon Teens Hostel [Image], Date: 1968 - 1969; Information Services, Department for Community Development, Signposts: A Guide for Children and Young People in Care in WA from 1920, Government of Western Australia, 2004, https://signposts.communities.wa.gov.au//pdf/pdf.aspx; Interview conducted by Debra Rosser with Avon and Deslee Moyle, Duncraig, on 15 April 2013 regarding the Carnarvon Teens Hostel.
Prepared by: Debra Rosser
Created: 15 March 2011, Last modified: 20 July 2018
Last updated: 17 October 2023
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