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“Most migrants want to stay”: Brooklyn hostel described, 1951

7 July 1951Brooklyn · Australiahousing and buildingspress and printfamily life
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A reporter walks the camp, July 1951. The Herald counted 1,306 people at Brooklyn, among them 580 children, living in thirteen wool stores and eight Nissen huts; the stores housed more than nine residents in ten, had cold cement floors and, the reporter wrote, looked from inside little better than a barn.
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A reporter walks the camp, July 1951. The Herald counted 1,306 people at Brooklyn, among them 580 children, living in thirteen wool stores and eight Nissen huts; the stores housed more than nine residents in ten, had cold cement floors and, the reporter wrote, looked from inside little better than a barn.

The Herald (Melbourne), 7 July 1951, page 3. Digitised by the National Library of Australia, Trove. Out of copyright: Australian material published before 1955.

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Brooklyn