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Daily Telegraph April 30 1933, S. (Sam) J. Hood (1870-1953)  Photographer:  Father Edmund Bond celebrating Mass at La Perouse at Receveur Grave,  with the then recently built Bunnerong Power Station in background.   Link to more photographs

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Scan of image of sketch with the following note on the bottom:A Plan of the Two allotments of Ground, on the North Shore of Botany Bay, released by His Excellency Sir Thomas Brisbane KCB etc etc etc to Monsr Le Baron De Bougainville Commanding His Most Christian Majesty’s Ship Thetis, for the purpose of erecting Monuments to the Memory of Count De La Perouse & Father Le Receveur. J Oxley Sgt. Sept 8th 1825’.  Scan of image of sketch/drawing of a ‘Plan, shewing [sic] 2 areas to be transferred to the French Government’ [La Perouse Monument & Le Receveur’s Grave]. Note on reverse reads; ‘From Plan Dept of Lands, 1918′.

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