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Agency details for: CA 1078
Agency number
 CA 1078
Title
 Native Affairs Branch (Section, 1941-1951)
Date range
 01 Jan 1939 - 31 Dec 1955
Series recorded by this agency
 Series
Organisation controlling
  • CO 11, NORTHERN TERRITORY [II]
Location
 Northern Territory
Agency status
 Intergovernmental agency
Function
Agency note
 
Responsibility for Aboriginal matters administered by the Medical Service, Health and Aboriginals Branch (CA 1077) passed to a newly created Native Affairs Branch of the Northern Territory Administration in 1939.
Due to the wartime position the Branch moved south to Alice Springs in 1942. It is thought that the Branch moved back to Darwin in 1946, and that at the same time a permanent local office of the Branch was established in Alice Springs (see CA 1117).
Due to changes within the Department of the Interior Structure, the Branch was technically a Section between 1941 and 1951.
The title of the Native Affairs Branch was changed to Welfare Branch in 1955.
 


Historical agency address
  1939-  1942: Darwin NT
  1942-? 1946: Alice Springs NT
? 1946-  1955: Darwin NT
Previous agency
  • CA 1077, Medical Service, Health and Aboriginals Branch
Subsequent agency
  • CA 1117, Native Affairs Branch, Alice Springs
  • 01 Jan 1955
    CA 1076, Welfare Branch
Superior agency
  • 01 Jan 1939 - 31 Dec 1955
    CA 1070, [Northern Territory] Administrator, Northern Territory [II]
Controlled agency
  • 01 Jan 1939 - 31 Dec 1946
    CA 1116, Half-Caste Institution, Alice Springs (Balaklava, South Australia from 1942-1946)
  • 01 Jan 1946 - 31 Dec 1955
    CA 1117, Native Affairs Branch, Alice Springs
Persons associated with agency
  • 01 Jan 1939 - 31 Dec 1942
    CP 12, Theodor George Henry STREHLOW - Deputy Director
Date registered
 12 May 1982


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