Summary

Certificate of Insurance from Maltese shipping and insurance company Cassar & Cooper to Herbert Portanier which records the number of cases and nature of the contents he is shipping to Australia. Seven containers were shipped on the S.S. Crown Prince to Haifa on 27 September 1979 and then onwards on the S.S. Trado to Melbourne on 10 October 1979.

Herbert and Eleanor Portanier and their three year old daughter Sarah migrated from Malta to Melbourne on 27 March 1979, arriving at Tullamarine Airport on 29 March 1979. They had visited Australia in 1977 to see Eleanor's family who were already in Melbourne and enjoyed it so much they decided to return permanently. The Portaniers were assisted migrants, and Herbert already had employment arranged. The couple settled in Bentleigh and their son James was born in 1981.

Physical Description

Single sheet of cream paper with black printing and details typed in black. Includes details of the consignee and sender, number of 'cases' and place of departure and destination.

Significance

This small collection provides a valuable represention of assisted migration to Australia during the 1970s, a story little told. migrant plane journeys are difficult to portray through material culture as plane tickets and related documentation are highly ephemeral and hard to acquire.

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