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Queensland - Archival Series
Superintendent's Punishment Registers (1924 - 1988)
Farm Home for Boys, Westbrook, Westbrook Training Centre, Westbrook Youth Centre
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- 14 January 1924
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- 17 June 1988
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The Superintendent's Punishment Registers, Series ID 549, relate to the Farm Home for Boys, Westbrook, Westbrook Training Centre, and Westbrook Youth Centre. They provide an almost daily record of boys who were punished for minor misdemeanours while undergoing a sentence in the Westbrook reformatory.
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The Superintendent's Punishment Registers record details of boys who were punished for minor misdemeanours while undergoing a sentence in the reformatory at Westbrook.
Under the "Industrial and Reformatory Schools Act 1865", the Superintendant of the reformatory was empowered to administer punishment with regards to certain offences. Persistent or serious offencers were referred to and investigated by the Visiting Justice.
Information recorded in the register includes; date punishment imposed, name of boy, by whom reported, offence (an additional field, 'remarks' was added here later in the register), punishment, and initial of officer in charge.
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Please contact Queensland State Archives:
Postal Address: PO Box 1397, Sunnybank Hills QLD 4109
Phone: (07) 3037 6777
Email: info@archives.qld.gov.au
Website: https://www.qld.gov.au/recreation/arts/heritage/archives/contacts
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