Protector's lETTERS: MAPS OF DEPOTS, 1840 - 1906
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Depots - Spreadsheet 1840 - 1913 - just up-dated to 1913 !
The number of depots grew as the frontier moved outwards. At first, the issuers at most of the depots were local police troopers and missionaries, but as their numbers grew, in areas without police or missions, pastoral tenants took on the duties. Issuers were not paid, but were expected to build storerooms and send in monthly returns itemising the amounts of issues and to whom they were issued. The peak year seems to have been 1896, with 74 depots.
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RATION DEPOTS AND ISSUING POINTS, 1863 - 1866 |
RATION DEPOTS AND ISSUING POINTS, 1866 - 1870 |
RATION DEPOTS AND ISSUING POINTS, 1871 - 1879 |
RATION DEPOTS AND ISSUING POINTS, 1880 - 1884 |
RATION DEPOTS AND ISSUING POINTS, 1884 - 1891 |
Depot Ledgers, 1909 - 1927, Depot Stores Ledgers, 1926/27 - 1931/32, and Stores Account Book, 1932-1941:
These files are not as boring as it sounds, well, not quite, but they give an idea of the range of goods issued and the number of depots at any time. As well, one can get an idea of population movements and numbers by the opening and closing of depots. The last volume takes this record up to 1941. These files are also indexed for Aboriginal people named in the ledgers. |
Point McLeay (Raukkan) Income and Expenditure Accounts, 1932-1946.
These extracts give an idea of the economic activity at Raukkan over the years of the Depression and the Second World War. I was surprised to note that levels of income and expenditure rose strongly over this period. |
Chief Storekeeper's issues of flour, to Depots, stations, settlements and missions, 1935-1942. The Commonwealth imposed a Flour Tax which had to be paid by the Aborigines Department, then claimed back as a refund. Ah, bureaucracy !
Spreadsheet shows location of depots, and amounts of flour sent out annually - this gives a very rough idea of populations in those areas. These are very incomplete data. |
Wellington - Issues of Rations [Flour] 1935 - 1944.
Monthly lists of names of recipients of rations issued at Wellington on the Murray River, during the Depression and the Second World War. |