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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]

Social welfare