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Endnotes
16 The argument of this paragraph was suggested in part by J.B. Hirst, ‘Centralization Reconsidered:
the South Australian Education Act of 1875’, Historical Studies, xiii, 49 and Hirst, Adelaide and
the Country, chs. 1, 3.
17 Pike, op. cit., p.80.
18 C.H. Spence, State Children in Adelaide: a History of Boarding Out in its Development, Adelaide,
1907, pp.7, 8; Pike, op. cit., pp.318, 319; SA Ordinance No.11 of 1843; SA, Government
Gazette, 24 August 1848.
19 SA, Government Gazette, 22 February 1849; Report of the Destitute Board, SA, Government
Gazette, 17 January 1850; Register, 19 January 1850.
20 SA, Government Gazette, 20 June 1850.
21 Rosamond and Florence Davenport Hill, What We Saw in Australia, London, 1875, p.141.
22 [SA], 26 & 27 Vic., 1863, no.3; SA, Government Gazette, 7 April 1864.
23 SA Parliament, Debates, 16 February 1866, c.1073.
24 SA Parliament, Papers, no.9; SA Parliament, Debates, 1866, cc.376-7.
25 F.P. Cobbe, ‘The Philosophy of the Poor-Laws’, Fraser’s Magazine, September 1864, republished
as pamphlet, London, 1865.
26 Ivy Pinchbeck & Margaret Hewitt, Children in English Society Volume ii, London, 1973,
pp.522-523.
27 Register, 14 March 1866; Observer, 17 March 1866; C.E. Clark, ‘The Boarding-Out Society’,
in Spence, State Children, p.17; Boarding-Out Society, Report, Adelaide, 1873; C.E. Clark,
‘Report of the Initiation and Progress for the Movement for Boarding out the Children of the
State in the Province of South Australia’, MS., SAA.
28 SA Parliament, Debates, 13 September 1866, cc.375-6; Boarding-Out Society, Report, 1873,
pp.3-4; [Victoria] 27 Vic. 1864, no.216; [SA] 30 Vic. 1866-7, no.12.
29 [SA] 35 & 36 Vic. 1872, no.26.
30 Register, 17 August 1870 ; Constance M. Davey, Children and their Law-makers, Adelaide,
1956, p.4.
31 ‘Report of the Committee of the Legislative Council on Destitute Establishments’, Register, 28
October 1867; see also Rosemary Byerley, ‘The Treatment of children in State Institutions in
South Australia, 1867-1885’, BA Hons thesis, University of Adelaide, 1967.
32 SA Parliament, Debates, 17 July 1876, c.104 ; SA Parliament, Papers, 1867, no.50; SA
Parliament, Debates, 23 July 1867, c.156, 31 July 1867, c.231.
33 SA Parliament, Debates, 8 January 1869, c.1376, 1 October 1869, c.484, 24 April 1872, c.608,
25 April 1872, c.655; Clark, ‘The Boarding-Out Society’, p.19; Davey, Children and their Lawmakers,
p.7.
34 Boarding-Out Society, Reports, 1873, pp.3-4, 1873-86, rule 8 (printed in each annual report);
Clark, ‘Initiation and Progress of the Movement for Boarding out’, p.3.
35 Boarding-Out Society, Reports, 1873-86, rule 5, lists of subscribers; for minimum and maximum
numbers of visitors, see Report, 1886, Report, 1877.
36 Boarding-Out Society, Reports, 1873-86, rule 2; Lucy Webb, ‘Our Viceregal Ladies’, in L.
Brown et al. (eds.), A Book of South Australian Women in the first Hundred Years, Adelaide, 1936,
p.86; entry for Henry Ayers and John Cotton in Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. iii;
entry for Samuel Davenport in Mennell, Dictionary of Australasian Biography. Barbalet observed
that Spence was probably the poorest member of this group, p.265, n.48.
37 Boarding-Out Society, Reports, treasurer’s reports, 1878, p.5, 1879, p.8, 1884, p.3; SA
Parliament, Papers, 1885, vol.4, no.228, pp.236, 245.
38 Barbalet, op. cit., pp.202-204.
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