Immigrants and Missing Immigrants cards 1920-1945

This series is a card register of immigrants and missing immigrants dealt with in various correspondence although most cards contain very little information. The cards mainly register the administrative file movement/s of the Immigration Department's correspondence regarding a particular immigrant, but may include the name of the immigrant/missing immigrant, a file number, i.e. 269/24, name of ship, date of arrival, movements of File (dates and file numbers), the name of (correspondence) writer, subject and action. Some cards contain annotations such as "file returned to (other state)" or details concerning an immigrant, for example, age at date of departure etc. There are stamp marks on many of the cards, for example, "Domestic", Decontrolled", "Final", "Decentralised", "Salvation Army", etc