Greenbushes Hostel, Western Australia, ca. 1942., c. 1942, courtesy of State Library of Western Australia.
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Greenbushes Hostel was the name given to the Sister Kate's Children's Cottage Home during its wartime evacuation to Greenbushes in southern Western Australia. Some children and staff relocated to the de-licensed Duke of York Hotel at Greenbushes on 29 February 1942. By 1944, some of the children and staff had returned to Queen's Park but Greenbushes was kept on until about December 1946.
Sources used to compile this entry: 'Sister Kate Finds a Haven for her Kiddies', Sunday Times, Sunday Times, 1 March 1942, p. 10, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59166084; Whittington, Vera, Sister Kate: a life dedicated to children in need of care, University of Western Australia Press, Nedlands, Western Australia, 1999.
Prepared by: Debra Rosser
Created: 19 July 2012, Last modified: 20 November 2014
Last updated: 7 August 2023
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