Summary

Alternate Name: Booklet

Booklet entitled 'Community Welfare Foundation / CWF Record', published in May 1976 by the Community Welfare Foundation central office in North Fitzroy. The booklet reports of various activities of the foundation providing welfare support, and features a photograph of Hubert Halls and a short article about his contribution as a volunteer maintenance work and his migration and professional background.

This item is one of a collection of material relating to the migration and settlement story of Hubert Halls who left Southampton for Melbourne on the MV Fairsea with his wife Dolly and five children in 1963. Hubert and his family lived on the Isle of Wight and he was a carpenter by trade.

Hubert had contracted polio and was ineligible for military service during WWII and he was employed to make coffins for deceased soldiers. In Australia he worked for the Melbourne City Mission until he retired. The collection also includes
two Fairsea shipboard newsletter/ information sheets, a tools of trade booklet and 13 digital photographs featuring Hubert with workmates in England, a family portrait, dockside departure and activities onboard ship.

Physical Description

16 page (including cover) booklet with black printed text and black and whilte photographs and a green-tinted front cover with a chidl's face.

Significance

This collection enables the representation through images and artefacts the working life of migrants prior to migrating to Australia and the skills and trades they brought with them. The booklet entitled 'A Handbook of Tools of Trade' published by the Commonwealth Dept of Immigration is an evocative example of methods used by the Australian Government to assist tradespeople adapt to Australian working conditions, especially those of a non-English speaking background. It also speaks to the importance placed by the Dept of Immigration on building a construction and manufacturing workforce. The booklet was produced to 'help the assimilation of migrant tradesmen...Migrants will recognise the tool from the drawing, and will read and learn its English name. Foremen and Australian workmates can help by pointing out in the booklet the tools that the migrants will use, and by helping him with the correct pronunciation.'

The shipboard photographs also document the kinds of activities and entertinments organised for passengers during their migrant voyages.

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