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28R Malabar Sub of Sydney - named after the S.S. "Malabar" which was wrecked here April 2, 1931. Ref: Stretch Ledger A9082 Note: "That the Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, at present used for repatria- tion purposes revert to the State Governement after the war". In May 1978, after the Repatriation Commission assumed the administration of RGH at Concord on May 19, 1947, the first Staff News Sheet published the History of RGH Concord, which revealed that during the reigns of governors Hunter and King certain land grands were made. The original recipient, Isaac Nichols, was the first Postmaster of NSW. His Father was Major Nichols, and the bay on which his residence stood is still called “Major’s Bay”. Before the end of 1840, the Nichols’ orange plantation was transferred to Thomas Walker who gradually ab- sorbed the properties sur- rounding the plantation until the Yaralla Estate expanded to 306 acres. When Thomas Walker died in 1886, he left 100,000 pounds for the construction of the Thomas Walker con- valescent Hospital for Women, to be erected on that part of his land known as Rocky Point.

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