Book Section

Title

Colonial Secretary's Department

In

The Cyclopedia of Western Australia (1912)

Editor

JS Battye

Imprint

Hesperian Press, Victoria Park, 1985, pp. 502-507

Description

This section of The Cyclopedia of Western Australia gives information about public charities, the State Children's Department and Industrial Schools as they were in 1911 in Western Australia.

Related Entries

Glossary Terms

• Boarding Out (1897 - 1976)
• Foster Care (1907 - )
• Industrial School

Legislation

• State Children Act 1907 (1907 - 1948)

Organisations

• Children's Court of Western Australia (1907 - )
• Children's Protection Society (1906 - 1994?)
• Clontarf (1901 - 1983)
• Colonial Secretary's Office, Colony of Western Australia (1890 - 1924)
• Government Receiving Depot (1907 - 1935)
• Home of the Good Shepherd Industrial School for Girls (1909 - 1979)
• House of Mercy (1891 - 1916)
• Parkerville Children's Home (1909 - 2005)
• Perth Girls' Orphanage (1868 - 1942)
• Redhill Reformatory School (1903 - 1922)
• Salvation Army Industrial School for Boys [Collie] (1901 - 1920)
• St Joseph's Girls' Orphanage (1901 - 1971)
• St Kevin's Industrial School (1897 - 1922)
• State Children Department, State of Western Australia (1917 - 1927)
• Swan Homes (1943 - 1959)

Related Publications

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• Battye, JS, The Cyclopedia of Western Australia (1912), Hesperian Press, Victoria Park, 1985. Details