Descriptive note

  Buildings damaged included the Half-Caste Home, Channel island Leprosarium (of which there are 19 photographs) and Kahlin Compound (3 photographs). There is a reference to the death of an Aborigine in the cyclone.

Extract from Ros Fraser (compiler), ‘Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People in Commonwealth Records: A Guide to Records in the Australian Archives, ACT Regional Office, Canberra, 1993’. As the above text was prepared to describe material relevant to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, it may not describe all the material on the item.