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Re: Assisted passage £10 Pom
« Reply #9 on: Sunday 13 November 11 00:55 GMT (UK) »
i cant speak for what happened in victoria only perth. here there were 2 hostels that people went to if they had nowhere else to go. some had employers that would find them homes before they got here and others like myself had family or friends that would put them up.

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Re: Assisted passage £10 Pom
« Reply #10 on: Sunday 13 November 11 07:23 GMT (UK) »
I was a £10.00 pom...by default... my mother and father emigrated... and took me with them?????? 

We lived in hostals and then lodged wherever we could.....sometimes living on the verandah of someone kind enough to put us up... It was pretty awful.................

we came home???

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Re: Assisted passage £10 Pom
« Reply #11 on: Sunday 13 November 11 07:27 GMT (UK) »
My sister and I flew out on the £10 scheme in 1966, figured we'd spend less of our hard earned money that way. On a whistle-stop in Darwin on the way to Sydney, we called in at the airport bar (boy it was hot!) overheard a couple of blokes at a table saying...oh good they've sent us more "Sheilas"
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Re: Assisted passage £10 Pom
« Reply #12 on: Saturday 17 December 11 05:41 GMT (UK) »
Hi Philipa
My name is Sandra Comley and would like to chat to you about John Bowman, Barbara Tosh & Betsy Duncan. John Bowman who immigrated to South Australia in 1849 is my great great great grandfather and I visited his grave only the other day. I am trying to find out more about Betty Duncan his second wife and also his first wife Barbara Tosh. Have you located Barbara Tosh death certificate and cause? look forward to your reply. My email is (*)

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