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Employment services

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Female Immigration Depot

Government Labour Bureau

Servants' Registry Office

St Matthew's Farm

Dillon, Anne

Haigh, William

Pawsey, Marianne

Wilson, Charlotte

Hiring Immigrants at the Depot, Hyde Park July 1879

Immigrant employment scheme, Blakehurst 1960

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Employment services

Female Immigration Depot

Primary reception and hiring depot for unprotected females either married or single, established by the colonial government. Housed in Hyde Park Barracks from 1848, thousands of impoverished women and children were assigned to new lives in the colony.

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Government Labour Bureau

State government office located in the Exhibition Building. Prince Alfred Park, in the 1870s-80s designed to find work for the unemployed.

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Servants' Registry Office

Labour registry for women wishing to obtain work in domestic service.

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St Matthew's Farm

Farm established during the Depression at Cromer by the Anglican minister to train unemployed boys and find them work.

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Dillon, Anne

Wife of the post inspector Augustus Dillon who became a labour registry agent in Sydney in the 1860s.

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Haigh, William

Employment agent in Sydney in the mid nineteenth century.

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Pawsey, Marianne

Proprietor of a labour registry for servants.

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Wilson, Charlotte

Swimming pool proprietor and later manager of a labour registry.

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Hiring Immigrants at the Depot, Hyde Park July 1879

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[TN83]

(Australian Town and Country Journal, 19 July 1879, p 120)

Immigrant employment scheme, Blakehurst 1960

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Contributed By

National Archives of Australia

[A12111, 1/1960/16/105A]