Prisoner, Aboriginal
["Koombana's Passenger List", Broome Chronicle (WA), Saturday 30 March 1912]
KOOMBANA'S PASSENGER LIST.
For Broome.
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One Malay and one aboriginal prisoner.
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["The Missing Koombana", Geraldton Guardian (WA), Saturday 30 March 1912, page 3]
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The Adelaide S.S. Company has received from its Hedland office a list of the passengers booked there who joined the Koombana for Broome, as follows:- Joseph Johnson, Capt. Stuart, Brider[sic], Hassan, and Japanese, Aboriginal and Malay prisoners. For Derby: Mr. McGowan.
["No News of the Koombana", The Sunday Times (Perth, WA), Sunday 31 March 1912, page ?]
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The Port Hedland Bookings
The following are the names of those passengers who booked at Port Hedland by the Koombana for Broome and Derby:-
For Broome: Captain Stuart, Joseph Johnson, H. Brider, Hassan, a Japanese, Aboriginal and Malay prisoners.
For Derby: J. McGowan.
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["The Passengers", The West Australian, Wednesday 03 April 1912, page 7]
FOR BROOME.
Steerage.
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A Japanese and an Aboriginal and malay prisoners.
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["The Hedland Bookings", Broome Chronicle (WA), Saturday 06 April 1912, page 2]
The Adelaide Shipping Co. received a wire from Hedland, giving the list of passengers booked there as:
FOR BROOME.
Captain Stewart
Mr. Briden
Joseph Johnson
Hassan (a Japanese)
One aboriginal and one Malay prisoner.
FOR DERBY.
Mr. McGowan
["Koombana Foundered", The Hedland Advocate (Port Hedland, WA), Saturday 06 April 1912, pages 5, 6, 8]
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The Passenger List.
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FOR BROOME
Capt. Stuart, H. Briden (from Hedland), J. Davis (pearl buyer), G. Simpson, G. Simpson, G. Harper, J. Davis (from Hedland, manager for Sibe Gorman, Broome), Miss S. Skamp, Miss G. Skamp, Mrs S. Pigott, Rev. W. Main, Mrs Gillam, Miss Gillam, J. Murphy, J. J. Johnson, (from Hedland), John Evans, W. Smith (formerly baker in Hedland), G. Bailey, A. Rouble,
The numbered 77, most of whom were well-known on this coast.
[Documents and reports to be placed before the Deputy Comptroller General of Prisons., Gaols Department, Western Australia, 1912. State Records Office of Western Australia, Series 3054, Consignment 968, Item 1912/2182]
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SROWA ITEM-1912/2182 Record Item Documents and reports to be placed before the Deputy Comptroller General of Prisons.
Item No. 1912/2182
Item Title Documents and reports to be placed before the Deputy Comptroller General of Prisons.
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Consignment No. 968
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Series No. 3054
Series Title FILES - DEPARTMENTAL
Start Date 1 Jan 1890
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Contents Start Date 1 Jan 1889
Contents End Date 31 Dec 1968
Series Description The files in this record series comprise the main departmental files of the Gaol's Department, as well as successive departments responsible for the prison system in Western Australia.
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