Descriptive note

  The file contains correspondence from Jessie Litchfield about various matters including the treatment and employment of part-Aborigines and Aborigines, the ‘Aboriginals Ordinance’ and regulations under it, Kahlin Compound, Aboriginal Reserves, housing at and the location of the new compound (Bagot), the protection of women and administrative matters.

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.