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

107. Home and Territories Department Memo, 20 October 1926: AA CRS Ai 1936/7846.

108. Kelsey to Minister for Home and Territories, 7 August 1925: AA CRS Ai 1936/7846.

109. secretary, Minister for Home and Territories, to Kelsey, 23 September 1925 (copy): AA CRS Ai 1936/7846.

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

111. Kelsey to Chief Protector, Darwin (copy), 13 February 1925: AA CRS Ai 1936/7846.

112. Kelsey to Stott (copy), 14 October 1924: AA CRS Ai 1936/7846.

113- McKay to Sexton, 18 April 1925: AFA CF SRG139/1/67.

114- Handwritten notes, initialed "MS" dated 7 May: AFA CF SRG 139/1/67.

115. Typed notes by McKay, n.d., c. 18 May 1925: AFA CF SRG 139/1/67. Maud's starding claims raise questions about the establishment of the Bungalow. It may have been significant that the white stepfather of Topsy, who was the daughter of an Oodnadatta policeman and a mixed-descent Arabunna woman from that area, had "gone respectable," married a white woman, and "not really wanted to know about" his former partner nor her children; Kimber, Man from Arltunga, 20. The case is certainly worthy of a more detailed historical investigation.

116. McKay to Sexton, 18 May 1925: AFA CF SRG 139/1/67.

117. Typed notes, undated, "Half-Caste Children"; "Report from Mr. Sexton" on AFA letterhead: AFA CF SRG 139/1/67.

118. Sexton to Pearce, 28 October 1924,12 November 1924,22 January 1925,3 August 1925 (copies): AFA CF SRG 139/1/44; AFA Executive Committee (hereafter AFA EC) Minutes, 23 January 1925: SRG 139/3, State Library of South Australia, Adelaide.

119. Sexton to Pearce, 28 October 1924,12 November 1924, 22 January 1925,3 August 1925 (copies): AFA CF SRG139/1/44; AFA EC Minutes, 23 January 1925. The old policeman was probably feeling somewhat embattled by the time Sexton arrived: he had been advised that all the agreements he'd drawn up for the girls working out of the Territory were "illegal and not binding," and he was directed to use new forms in the future, though the existing contracts were to stand for the present: Chief Protector of Aboriginals, Darwin, to Stott, 15 June 1925 (copy); Home and Territories Department Memo, 20 October 1926: AA CRS Ai 1936/7846.

120. Sexton to Cooke, 16 October 1925 (copy): AFA CF SRG 139/1/66. WNPA GC Minutes, 21 October 1925. Stephens to Sexton, 30 October 1925; Sexton to Stephens, 31 October 1925 (copy); Stephens to Sexton, 4 November 1925: AFA CF SRG 139/1/66.

121. Extract from secretary's notes, AFA Committee meeting, 23 September 1926: AFA CF GRG 139/1/66. The Commonwealth government was to pay the South Australian government £5 per annum per child transferred: McLaren to Stott, 5 October 1926 (copy): AA CRS Aii936/784&.

122. McLaren to Sexton, 15 October 1926: AFA CF GRG139/1/66.

123. Memo, Home and Territories Department, 28 January 1925: AA CRS Ai 1927/2982.

124. Circular letters to McKay and Cooke from Taplin and Sexton, 19 January 1926; McKay to Sexton, 21 January 1926; Cooke to Sexton, 25 January 1925 (copy): AFA CF GRG 139/1/83