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39 Ibid., p.204.
40 [SA]11 & 12 Vic. 1848, no.8.
41 Boarding-Out Society, Report, 1878, p.4.
42 Barbalet, op. cit., p.xii.
43 See Prochaska, Women and Philanthropy, passim.
44 SA Parliament, Papers, 1885, vol.4, no.228; SA Government Gazette, 9 December 1886.
45 Last, ‘A paper on the life and work of Sir Edward Charles Stirling’; W.G.K. Duncan & R.A.
Leonard, The University of Adelaide 1874-1974, Adelaide, 1973, p.34.
46 SA Parliament, Papers, 1889, no.108; Spence, State Children, pp.30-31.
47 Victorian Parliament, Papers, 1892-3, vol.4, no.60, p.511; Spence, State Children, p.29.
48 SA Parliament, Papers, 1896, no.81 ; [SA] 58 & 59 Vic. 1895, no.641; Spence, op. cit., p.48.
49 Charity review: i, 1, pp.4-5; i, 2, pp.7-9; v, 2, pp.5-8; Women’s Sphere, March 1901, pp.59-60;
Spence, Autobiography, p.69; Register, 4 April 1893; C.H. Spence, ‘Care of Children in Australia’
in J.H. Finley (ed.), International Congress of Charities Correction and Philanthropy, Chicago,
1893, pp.291-3; C.H. Spence, ‘Charity in South Australia’, Proceedings of the first Australasian
Conference on Charity held in Melbourne from 11 to 17 November, 1890, Melbourne, 1890;
C.H. Spence, untitled sermon headed ‘Melbourne – Sunday evening’, 8 May, no year, MS.,
ML; C.H. Spence, address on National Council of Women, n.p., n.d., MS., ML; Spence, State
Children.
50 See Barbalet, op. cit., p.205. I am indebted to John Tregenza for first drawing my attention to
the exaggerations in Spence’s claims.
51 Minutes of the Destitute Board: 21 January 1897, minute 419; 23 December 1897, minute
466, MS., SAA; (Spence), Autobiography, p.83; Cook, ‘Spence’, p.2.
52 SA Parliament, Papers, 1885, no.288, p.237 ; C.H. Spence, ‘National or Compulsory
Providence’, Proceedings of the Second Australasian Conference on Charity, Melbourne, 1892,
pp.77-85.
53 C.H. Spence, note headed ‘the Decline in the Birthrate’, unpublished, n.d., MS., ML.
54 C.H. Spence, The Elberfeld System of Charity: a Study of Poverty, Adelaide, 1906.
55 Gareth Stedman Jones, Outcast London, Oxford, 1971, pp.260-261; Spence, Elberfeld System.
56 Daniels, ‘Catherine Spence’, pp.59-63.
57 See appendices, Magarey, ‘A Study of Catherine Helen Spence’.
58 Boarding-Out Society, Report, 1878, pp.7-8.
59 Ibid; Spence, State Children, pp.85-6.
60 C.H. Spence, Address to the National Council of Women, 30 May 1905, MS., ML.
61 ‘State Children’ Convention, Adelaide, 1907, p.9.
5 Learning for the future
1 See, for example, C.H. Spence, evidence to Commission on the working of the Education Acts,
SA Parliament, Papers, 1882, no.27, p.143.
2 Spence, ‘A Week in the Future’, Centennial Magazine, 7, (1888), pp.657, 659, 660.
3 SA Ordinance no.14, 1846; Ordinances nos. 10 and 11, 1847; SA Government Gazette, 7
August 1851.
4 SA Ordinance no.20, 1851.
5 Douglas Pike, ‘The History of Education in South Australia’, in E.L. French (ed.), Melbourne
Studies in Education 1957-1958, Melbourne, 1958; A.G. Austin, Australian Education 1788-
1900, Melbourne, 1961, pp.159-60.
6 Young, Spence, p.48.
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