Party: Exclusive Plymouth Bretheren - Doomadgee Mission. Doomadgee Mission, via Mount Isa, 4825
Summary
The order is involved in Aboriginal Missions in South Australia and the Northern Territory, and in 1931 founded Doomadgee Mission west of Burketown, in Queensland. The Plymouth Bretheren advised that each mission of the order is fully autonomous; each mission maintains its own records, there being no central headquarters or Archives of the order. Access to Doomadgee Mission is restricted, and records held would be available only to approved researchers. Intending visitors should apply well in advance to both the Aboriginal Council and to the manager of the mission, stating the purpose and proposed time of the visit. The following details of records held at Doomadgee Mission were provided.
Typescript, 'Early history of Doomadgee' by Mrs D. Akehurst, memoirs taped and transcribed by Mrs M. Read, covering foundation of the mission from October 1929, foolscap, pp. 3.
Typescript, 'Doomadgee Aborigines', by G.J. Hockey, 1969, paper prepared at the Queensland Institute of Technology on the history of the foundation and progress of Doomadgee Mission, by the son of the current manager of the mission, bibliography, foolscap, pp. 5, 1.
Newsletter, Doomadgee News and Doomadgee, published before 1951, several copies held.
Newsletter, Home News, ca.1957-1974, produced at Doomadgee for circulation at the mission and to mission people working elsewhere on cattle stations etc., illustrated, irregular issue, several copies held.
Newsletter, Pix Paper, quarterly publication began ca.1975, issued from Doomadgee Mission. Covers Aboriginal school news and activities in the Gulf of Carpentaria and Cape York Peninsula region, a few copies held.
Photographs, the collection dates from the founding of the mission on the present site in 1931, though most date from 1951. A variety of topics relating to the mission and the Aboriginal people is included.