Description of series:These Passenger Cards are subsiduary to the Inwards Passenger Lists 
for the above years and are used to obtain information not included 
on the Passenger lists. The cards relate to British Subjects who disembarked in Adelaide and 
includes Australians re-entering for the period 1948 to 1950. The 
information on the cards includes: name of Ship, full name of 
passenger, permanent address, country of last permanent residence, 
occupation, date of birth, sex, place of birth, nationality,passport 
details, date of disembarkation, Port of Disembarkation, conjugal 
condition, racial origin, proposed length of stay, whether passage 
money provided, intended address in Australia, personal description.

The cards are arranged alphabetically within the boxes but for 
digitisation purposes the National Archives of Australia imposed 
the control symbols of Entire Box 1 to Entire Box 15 to enable the 
cards to be digitised at container level. 

History Prior/Subsequent to Transfer:PTT-This Series of Inwards Passenger cards was transferred by 
Department of Immigration to the S.A. State Archives in July, 1952. 
By Authority of the State Libraries Board, the Officer-in-charge, 
of the State Archives transferred these cards to the Commonwealth 
Archives Office, S.A. Branch on 1/10/1968. Administrative information The following data was keyed from the paper documentation:Form number:              CA 17Creating department:      , Dept. of Immigration, S.A. Regional Office., Registry SectionTransferring department:  , Immigration Department, S.A. Regional Office, Registry Section.Date of transfer:         02/10/1968Archives file number:     RWA28/1/2