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Neil Tolmie Macrae Yeates
Place of BirthToowoomba-QLDDate of Death30 August 1996Place of DeathWoolgoolga-NSWOccupationAgricultural scientistHistorian
BiographyReversing Breeding Season (1947, October 27). Morning Bulletin (Rockhampton, Qld. : 1878 - 1954), p. 1.
Book recalls squalor of city's housing
The days when scruffy Coffs Harbour was ringed by shanty towns containing whites and Aboriginals are recalled in the second volume of Professor Neil Yeates' history of Coffs Harbour. The 350-page second volume covers the years 1946 1964 when the town was struggling out of the restrictions imposed by war-time rationing.
As the volume opens, whites were living in shacks and camps at Park Beach Reserve while Aborigines and some whites were settled along railway land near the ocean and along the bank of Coffs Creek at the northern end of Gordon and Duke Streets. The housing problem had worsened during the war when the construction of new homes stopped as supplies were diverted to war needs.
Coffs Harbour Advocate, 17 May 1994, p.7
The Advocate, 27 November 1979, p.1
News for Women (1953, August 18). The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW : 1931 - 1954), p. 18. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article248883747
Neil Yeates' brother James was the subject of a biography titled The Needle in the Heart Murder The Mysterious Death of Dr Yeates, Candace Sutton, 2003
ENGAGEMENT (1945, July 7). The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), p. 11.
TO MARRY TO-DAY (1945, October 20). The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), p. 6.
This Week In Town (1947, May 8). The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), p. 14.
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