HISTORY : TIMELINE : 1930s-1940s
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	Fr John Wallis arrives in Tasmania, Australia.
	Fr John meets Mrs Kit Hawkins on Bruny Island, Tasmania.
	Experimental correspondence lessons sent to children on Bruny Island.
	Beginnings of small Catholic lending library in Hobart.
	Fr John writes to the Sisters of Service in Canada's isolated prairie country.
	He writes locally of the need for a community of sisters to reach out to rural families.
	Lending library established in the Commercial Bank building, Hobart.
	Miss Valerie Casey, a Legionary, appointed Librarian at the Catholic library, Hobart.
	Gwen Morse, attending a meeting of the Legion of Mary addressed by Fr John offers herself as the first volunteer.
	First of several meetings of those interested in forming a group to discuss proposed community.
	Archbishop Tweedy announces plans for the new community at clergy conference, Archdiocese of Hobart.
	Beginnings of new community at Launceston, Tasmania known as The Home Missionary Sisters of Our Lady, with the motto: Into the Highways and Byways.
	First correspondence lessons sent to thirteen children on Flinders Island.
	At the request of Archbishop Tweedy, two Sisters take up residence in North Hobart.
	Approval given by Rome for this new society of women to live in community without vows.
	Sisters design and adopt a grey dress and veil, together with hat and cloak when travelling.
	Two Sisters accept first invitation for mission in Derby parish, Tasmania.
	The community moves from Launceston to Longford, Tasmania.
	The novitiate and correspondence school transfer to North Hobart.
	Two Sisters travel to Stanley, Tasmania, where a caravan is used on mission for the first time. (Caravan remained in use until 1960.)

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