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1903 - North West - view

becoming a better bat than his brother Fred used to be

1903 - North West - view

Some work on wharves and dairy farms, pull maize, cut timber or are domestic servants

1903 - North West - view

safelands

1903 - North West - view

Christians have established a mission to the Aborigines at St Clair

1904 - South West - view

At least three young Koori adults die of tuberculosis

1904 - North West - view

A native ceremonial arch is erected in the main street of Singleton

1904 - North West - view

a gunyah was built on the pattern formerly used by the blacks in the early days

1904 - North West - view

native songs

1905 - North West - view

She delights audiences by singing a hymn at the great Juvenile Rally

1905 - North West - view

After a split with the Australian Aborigines Mission (AAM), Retta Dixon founds an Evangelical movement in Singleton called the Aborigines Inland Mission (AIM)

1906 - North West - view

dies of consumption while in Singleton, leaving daughters Harriet Pitman and Lily Kermode orphaned

1906 - North West - view

Four AIM converts from the Aboriginal community at Karuah offer their services as “native workers”

1907 - North West - view

The first annual AIM convention is held and the first issue of its journal, Our AIM is published

1907 - North West - view

converted to Christianity

1908 - North West - view

The troupe plays tunes of orange leaves. Miss Barber accompanies the singers on the organ

1908 - West - view

a deadly epidemic of influenza

1908 - West - view

buried by the Eastern creek

1908 - West - view

excludes Indigenous Australians from receiving pensions

1909 - West - view

excludes Indigenous Australians from the Armed Forces

1909 - West - view

barred from employment by the Post Office