From the Maitland Mercury report:
On August 19, 1949, hundreds of migrants arrived in Australia in search of a new life.
Arriving in Newcastle, after 28 days at sea aboard the Fairsea, the migrants were then transported to the newly established Greta Migrant Camp to an unfamiliar life, an unfamiliar world.
The exhibition – New Lives New Australians: snapshots of Greta Migrant Camp, 1945-1960 – features a selection of photographs that depict what life was like in the camp for the thousands of migrants whose first Australian home was at Greta.
Exhibition at the Wallsend District Library until September 30.
Full article by Emma Swain available at Maitland Mercury, 2/09/2009.
