Asian People

• AU WA S2381 CONS 129/U22: Police Department unregistered file
  Register of Japanese persons resident in the Plantagenet district July 1901.
• AU WA S4108 CONS 400/15: Department of Labour - Factories and Shops Branch. Register of annual certificates issued to Asiatic occupiers of factories 1905-1921
  Gives name, address of factory and type of business. Majority of entries are for Chinese people.
• AU WA S4752 : Broome Police Station. Correspondence relating to internees 1941-1942
  Includes names and occupation of internees - mostly Japanese people.
• AU WA S1930: Sunset Hospital Claremont. Admission and Discharge Cards for Asiatics 1906-1960
  Cards record personal histories. They show patient finances, personal details, funeral arrangements.

The names of Asian pearl divers may be located in Police Department Occurrence Books (on the State Records Office catalogue check AN 5/Stations) and Department of Fisheries and Wildlife records (see heading Pearl Divers & Pearlers for details of records).

The names of Asian seamen may be located in Harbour and Lights Department and Department of Fisheries and Wildlife records (see heading Seamen for details of records). Also check Colonial Secretary’s Office Indexes under the headings aliens, naturalisation and immigration (see Colonial Secretary's Office for details).

Also see heading Asian People in Private Archives.