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M1283 [1] St John Bosco Boys Town

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Reference Number

Quote this number to access your records: Tasmanian Archives Item Number, AA59/1/1126

Records Location

These records are part of Migrant Files (1945 - 1982).

Details

M1283 [1] St John Bosco Boys Town contains correspondence between Boys’ Town and the Social Services Department. The correspondence is about psychological testing of boys, with their names, the lack of feminine influence at Boys’ Town and attempts to improve it, and Fathers Coles’ application to send some boys to West Australia. The file also shows that one boy returned to his mother in England.

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