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Halifax Disaster Record Office Materials

"Journal", typed notes and newspaper clippings

18 December 1918. — 5 pages : 30 x 40 cm.

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HALIFAX DISASTER RECORD OFFICE
CHRONICLE BUILDING
HALIFAX, N. S.
December 18, 1917.

JOURNAL

NOTICE
Registration and Distribution of Food.
Commencing this morning, and open daily until further notice, a registration office for relief will be open at the following places, during the following hours:
10 o'clock to 1, and 2 o'clock to 5.
Heads of families, who have not yet registered full particulars of their cases, must call at one of the following places to register, and obtain orders for food supplies:
St. Mary's Army & Navy Club, 376 Barrington Street.
Peter Allen, Cor. Buckingham & Argyle Streets.
Doug. McDonald's store, 101 1/2 Gottingen Street; next to Irwin's Drug Store.
Thomson's Drug Store, Windsor & Cunard Streets.
Wellington Barracks, Orderly Room; inside main gate.
Bank of Nova Scotia, Cor. Agricola & North Streets.
R. T. MacILREITH,
Chairman Managing Committee.

PUBLIC NOTICE
Regarding Halifax Disaster
All persons who have in their care children known to be orphans or whose parents have not been found, must immediately register full particulars with the Children's Committee.
All persons who have in their care children, without permission from the parents of the said children, must register full particulars with the Children's Committee.
The public are hereby warned that any person who, without legally constituted authority, takes and retains possession of any child is liable to prosecution and will be proceeded against.
Unauthorized persons are hereby warned to make no arrangements for the temporary or permanent care of any children in the foregoing classes.
All orders for the transfer of said children must come from the Children's Committee.
Authorized agents of the Children's Committee must be furnished with all necessary information when making inquiries.
ERNEST H. BLOIS,
Chairman Children's Committee, andSupt. Neglected and Delinquent Children


Reference: Archibald MacMechan Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 volume 2124 number 69

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