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Latitude
-31.903056
Longitude
115.955833
Start Date
1930
End Date
1939

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Native Welfare Department made a sort of raid on the camps and in the Bassendean and Guildford areas and all people who werenā€™t working, unemployed and things, they just grabbed them all, kids who didnā€™t go to school, and just chucked ā€˜em in a big sort of cattle trucks and took them all up to Moore River Settlement. And ā€˜causeĀ  two of my sisters were rounded up at my grandmotherā€™s place and they grabbed them too, and my aunty and chucked them all on aĀ  truck and took ā€˜em up to Moore River.Ā 

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