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Rate Notice - Melbourne & Metropolitan Board of Works, 26 Oct 1952
Reg. No: HT 622
- Summary:
- Water Rates Notice issued by the Melbourne & Metropolitan Board of Works to Nicolae Condurateanu, dated 26 October 1952. The rates are for one pound, sixteen shillings and eight pence.
Nicolae Condurateanu was a Romanian who was placed in a POW camp during WWII in Germany. He met his wife Barbara, also a Romanian, when she caught the wrong train and ended up in a German Displaced Persons camp, where Nicolae was Barbara had spent WWII in a Russian POW camp and was meant to have been on a train back to Romania. The couple married in 1948 at the A1 Heetre Camp and immigrated to Australia in 1950, where Nicolae worked in a Tea factory and Barbara at the Four and Twenty Pie factory. They had no family in Australia and had to rely on each other for support eventually purchasing a house and establishing a life in their new country. - Description:
- Cream coloured printed paper document containing some stamps.
- Acquisition Information:
- Donation from Ms Carla Lolicato, 2001
| Discipline: | History |
| Dimensions: | 26.50 cm (Height), 15.50 cm (Length) |
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| Tagged with: | immigration, displaced persons, migrant hostels, migrant camps, migrant reception centres, romanian communities, romanian immigration |
| Themes this item is part of: | Migration Collection, Transport Collection, Melbourne & Metropolitan Board of Works (MMBW), Melbourne, Victoria |
| Primary Classification: | MIGRATION |
| Secondary Classification: | Settlement - First Home & Family |
| Tertiary Classification: | financial records |
| Inscriptions: | Text: MELBOURNE AND METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS [extensive text] |
| Issued By: | Melbourne & Metropolitan Board of Works (MMBW), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 26 Oct 1952 |
| Issued To: | Nicolae Condurateanu, Essendon, Victoria, Australia, 26 Oct 1952 |
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