This is a digital copy of an illustrated article published in the The Mercury on Wednesday 31 December 1952. The image shows boys from Kennerley Boys’ Home in front of their beach house at Pittwater.
This is an image of Elim, the Salvation Army Maternity Hospital in West Hobart. It shows a large two-storey weatherboard house, in front of which is a sign that reads “The Salvation Army ‘Elim’”.
Landscape view of the Kennerley Boys’ Home at Lansdowne Crescent, West Hobart.
Caption from National Archives of Australia: Immigration – Child migration schemes – The Fairbridge Society this month extended its child migration scheme to Tasmania. The Society has taken over and modernised “Tresca” near Launceston. This wil be in addition to farms schools for British migrant children at Molong, NSW and at Pinjarra, WA. The society…
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