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Title: Woman outside permanent tent housing, Coogee Beach 1950 [picture]
Imprint: Perth : Daily News, 1950
Notes: Published in the Daily News, 3 June 1954. Digital image taken from microfilm at State Library of WA in 2018.
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Summary: Mrs E. Payne, 83, outside the tent that she and her adult family lived in at Coogee Beach. They paid £2/10 a week to the tent landlord, Mr. H. Ryan, who in turn paid the Fremantle Road Board a weekly rent of 8/6 which covered sanitary facilities, rubbish disposal, and water supply. Along with several other families, the Paynes had nowhere else to go in a post-war housing shortage and were dreading the oncoming winter months. [Information from the article attached to the photograph, Daily News, 3 Jun 1950, p.12]
Subject: Cockburn Region (W.A.) -- CoogeeCoogee Beach (W.A.)Homelessness -- CoogeeSmelters camp
Woman outside permanent tent housing, Coogee Beach 1950 [picture]

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