Domestic Service and Frontier Feminism: The Call for a Woman Visitor to "Half-Caste" Girls and Women in Domestic Service, Adelaide, 1925-1928

95. Hutley to Pearce, 27 October 1924: AA CRS Ai 1927/2982.

96. Sexton to secretary, Home and Territories Department, 19 March 1925 (copy): AFA CF SRG139/1/66.

97. This question was raised by a couple of the readers. Genders had just withdrawn from the AFA, aggrieved that that body would not support his call for a model Aboriginal state: see AFA CF SRG 139/1/65; especially Sexton to secretary, Home and Territories Department, 16 March 1925. At the next AFA meeting (held the day after Sexton wrote to the minister's secretary), it was "unanimously agreed" that the model state "was fantastic and impracticable and made no real contribution to the Aboriginal problem"; presumably Genders's supporters McKay and Cooke, who were both present at the meeting, thought discretion the better part of valor: AFA GC Minutes 31 March 1925.

98. Handwritten notes initialed"MS" dated 21 April: AFA CF SRG139/1/67. The events described may have taken place some months earlier. According to Stott's records, a "Jane Smith" was employed by McKay's husband under one of his contracts-typically two years-which was due to expire at the end of 1925: "List of Half-Caste Girls from Northern Territory Employed in South Australia," undated, c. March 1925: AFA CF SRG 139/1/66. There is no "Jane" listed in the story of Topsy Smith's children, and Jean appears in later records, so this is undoubtedly an error; see R. G. Kimber, Man from Arltunga: Walter Smith Australian Bushman (Perth: Arltunga hotel and Hesperian Press, 1996).

99. McLaren to Sexton, 30 March 1925; telegram, Sexton to secretary, Home and Territories Department, é April 1925 (copy): AFA CF SRG 139/1/66.

100. AFA GC Minutes, 31 March 1925.

101. AFA GC Minutes, 31 March 1925. Sexton to Cooke, 1 April 1925; Sexton to Pearce, 4 April 1925; Sexton to Stephens, 9 April 1925 (all copies); secretary WNPA to Pearce, 9 April 1925 (copy, unsigned): AFA CF SRG 139/1/66. WNPA EC Minutes, 8 April 1925; WNPA GC Minutes, 15 April 1925.

102. Kelsey to Minister for Home and Territories, 30 March 1925: AA CRS Ai 1936/7846.

103. McLaren to secretary, Attorney-General's Department, 7 April 1925. Solicitor-General, Attorney-General's Department, Minute Paper, to secretary, Home and Territories Department, 28 April 1925: AA CRS Ai 1936/7846.

104. Leane (Deputy NT Administrator), Darwin 201 to secretary, Home & Territories Dept, 9 April 1925: AA CRS Ai 1936/7846. ft had been vaguely imagined that this authority was enabled under a "conjunction" of two subsections of the 1918 Ordinance, but as the telegram from Darwin explained, "Though authority for appointment to operate outside territory may be doubted it was of informal character and was only intended [to] identify kelsey [sic] with very necessary work of seeing that northern Territory half castes properly treate[d] responsibility for which chief protector felt justifying assuming."

105. Prime Minister to Premier SA, 12 May 1925 (copy): AA CRS Ai 1936/7846.

106. The state government insisted upon a federal payment of £10 per head per annum to cover administrative costs; the federal government argued that £5 would be sufficient but privately prepared to concede if forced: J. Gunn to Prime Minister, 3 June 1925 (copy); Prime Minister to Premier, SA (copy), date obscured, c. 13 IuIy 1925; Premier, South Australia to Minister for Home and Territories, 28 August 1925; Home and Territories Department Memo, 29 September 1925; Home and Territories Department Memo, notation dated é October 1925: AA CRS Ai 1936/7846.