Application by youths for assisted passage as boy migrants - Big Brother Scheme (GRG7/7)

The Big Brother scheme was a scheme under the Immigration Act of 1923 similar in nature to the Barwell Boys scheme.

Under the Act, a 'boy immigrant' was a youth between the ages of fifteen and twenty-one who came to South Australia with the assistance of the Commonwealth Government. Boy migrants in the Big Brother Sheme were farm apprentices, and were assigned to a 'big brother' and a farmer when they arrived in Australia.

The files contain completed forms of application, noting details such as address in United Kingdom, referees, name of parent or guardian, date of arrival in South Australia, name of ship and name and address of farmer boy apprenticed to. Also contains correspondence with the Director of Immigration once the youth had arrived in South Australia.

File numbers (i.e. nomination number), range from 1501-1626 This numbering system continues that of the Barwell Boys Scheme (see GRG7/6).

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Indexed by GRG 7/16 or see the Special List to GRG 7/16 in the Research Centre.

For a paper written by the Director of Immigration on the subject of boy migrants as farm apprentices, see GRG 7/80 Item 8.