Marie’s mother helped organise the free children’s library in Bright’s Arcade in 1943. Marie went on to work in Wollongong Council Library and Macquarie University Library before coming back to Wollongong in later life.

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Church Street Wollongong, Wollongong Public School, Wollongong High School,books, reading, children, free children’s library, Wollongong Library, Bulli Library, bookmobile, Dolph Murray, WEA, WWII, Library Act, Fred Hall, Home Library Service

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