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

125. Garnett to Sexton, 10 November 1926; AFA CF SRG139/1/25. Sexton to Garnett, 16 November 1926 (copy): AFA CF SRG 139/1/196.

126. Stott to Sexton, 29 October 1926: AFA CF SRG139/1/196.

127. WNPA GC Minutes, 21 April 1926,21 July 1926.

128. WNPA GC Minutes, 19 May 1926. The WNPA had asked the federal minister for news and was advised to make renewed representations to the South Australian Protector.

129. Stott to McLaren, secretary, Home and Territories Department, 29 October 1926: Ai 1936/7846.

130. McKay to Sexton, 27 November 1926; Cooke to Sexton, 27 November 1926: AFA CF SRG139/1/25.

131. Vigis to Sexton, 6 December 1926: AFA CF SRG139/1/25.

132. AFA GC Minutes, 18 February 1926, enclosing report in Advertiser, 19 February 1926.

133. AFA secretary's report, n.d., c, July 1926 (being with Regulations for the Home dated July 1926): AFA CF SRG 139/1/47. In his itemization of costs associated with the supervision of the Bungalow girls, the South Australian premier had claimed "reasonable contribution" to the City Mission's proposed home "for Aboriginal women and girls when out of employment for various reasons or attending Hospital as outdoor patients," on the grounds that the Northern Territory girls would "derive great benefit" from the proposed home; Premier, South Australia to Minister for Home and Territories, 28 August 1925; Home and Territories Department Memo, 29 September 1925: AA CRS Ai 1936/7846.

134. Sexton to Garnett, 7 December 1926 (copy): AFA CF SRG 139/1/25.

135. secretary, Commissioner of Public Works, to Sexton, 15 January 1927: AFA CF SRG 139/1/25.

136. Official notice of appointment, 1928: AFA CF SRG 139/1/10; Letter of reappointment, 1936, from secretary, Commissioner of Public Works Office: AFA CF SRG 139/1/213.

137. Fiona Paisley, "For a Brighter Day: Constance Ternent Cooke," in Uncommon Ground: White Women in Aboriginal History, ed. Anna Cole, Victoria Haskins, and Fiona Paisley (Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press, 2005), 172-196,183.

138. Bussell and Sexton to Cooke, 5 February 1929; Bussell and Sexton to McKay, 5 February 1929; Cooke to Sexton, 11 February 1929 (copy); McKay to Sexton, 10 February 1929; Sexton to Bussell, 13 February 1929 (copy): AFA CF SRG 139/1/130. WNPA GC Minutes, 10 May 1929.

139. McKay was convenor for 1927, then Cooke from 1928: WNPA GC Minutes, 20 July 1927,25 July 1928.

140. WNPA GC Minutes, 21 September 1927; 16 November 1927.

141. WNPA GC Minutes, 18 April 1928; 27 April 1928; 16 May 1928; 20 June 1928; 20 July 1928; for the argument that the wife should be recognized as the employer, see Stephens to House (Minister for Home and Territories), 22 May 1928: AA CRS Ai 1936/7846. The Minister countered that as "single men" were prohibited from employing females, there was "little need to adopt the suggestion": Home and Territories Department memo, 3 July 1928: AA CRS Ai 1936/7846. Though short-lived, this later campaign is worthy of a study in its own right, especially as by the 19305 Cooke would be helping domestic workers get their wages out of the trust accounts; it also proposed to remove the requirement that the employer provide the worker with tobacco (because it was degrading) and that workers should be on the same wage scale as South Australian state wards, the "Woman Protector," that is, the Visitor, to decide on alternative arrangements if necessary; see Cooke to Buxton, 3 October 1934, Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society Papers, 5.19,02/28, Rhodes House, Oxford. see also Paisley, "For a Brighter Day," 179.