Wondai Police Station Letterbooks 1919 - 1938


      Police Station, Wondai
      Letterbooks
      QS 501/1(3) 1919 - 1920 Queensland State Archives
      QS 501/1(4) 1925 - 1926 Queensland State Archives
      QS 501/1(5) 1927 - 1928 Queensland State Archives
      QS 501/1(6) 1928 - 1929 Queensland State Archives
      QS 501/1(7) 1933 - 1934 Queensland State Archives
      QS 501/1(8) 1937 - 1938 Queensland State Archives

      These letterbooks are held at the Queensland State Archives.

      The following extracts have appeared in my Queensland Aboriginal
      Notes series.

      Copyright     Paul Mackett 1998

      QS 501/1(3) 1919 - 1920

      22. 8.1919 Nurse Jane Higman of Wondai applying for permission
      to employ Nellie Williams of Barambah Aboriginal Settlement.

      11. 2.1920 Illegal employment of Jack Harrison H/C and
      Willie Pagel H/C by Lewis Foucault.

       5. 6.1920 Certificate of Exemption given to Thomas Morgan Simpson

      QS 501/1(4) 1925 - 1926

      Nil

      QS 501/1(5) 1927 - 1928

      11. 8.1927 Death at Wondai District Hospital on 11. 8.1927 of
      Dolly Crow H/C Aboriginal, aged 18 years, inmate of Barambah
      Aboriginal Settlement from self-administered arsenic poisoning.
      Dolly was single. Buried at Barambah on 11. 8.1927

      QS 501/1(6) 1928 - 1929

      26. 9.1928 Harry Robson otherwise known as Alick Gibson
      absconded from Barambah Aboriginal Settlement. Also mentions
      Bob Anderson H/C.

      QS 501/1(7) 1933 - 1934

      24.10.1933 Les Albury H/C owes the State Childrens Department
      at Rockhampton for maintenance of his five children.

      20. 7.1934 Malcolm Brown H/C inquired for by deputy Chief
      Protector of Aborigines. Harry Costello, Aboriginal, stated that
      Brown had left for Beaudesert where his parents lived.

      QS 501/1(8) 1937 - 1938

      29.10.1937 Inquiry into death of Jack Murray who died at the
      Aboriginal Hospital at Cherbourg on 18.10.1937 while under
      anaesthetic.

      30.10.1937 Letter allegedly written by Wallie Wallace also
      known as Oscar Wallace concerning the character of Doris Chase
      aged 13 years.

      15. 3.1938 Stella Simpson H/C on friendly terms with Henry Grant
      or Harry Grant, late of Wondai. Harry Grant left Wondai in
      March 1936 and was going to Scotland. Has not returned to Wondai.

      19. 4.1938 Interview with Thomas Simpson H/C.
      Thomas Simpson H/C comes under the Aboriginal Protection Act as
      his Exemption Certificate was collected from him about two years
      ago at Proston and sent to the Chief Protector's Office, Brisbane.
      Thomas Simpson had a rocky relationship with Kathleen Black
      of Cherbourg. Kathleen now works in the Aramac district. Also
      mentions Roy Fogarty.

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