The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A Vietnamese High School library, sponsored from public subscription in Australia, was opened last week by the Commander, Australian Force Vietnam, Major-General A. L. MacDonald. The library is part of a two-room block including a science laboratory built at a cost of about $10,000 at the Chau Van Tiep High School at Baria, the Phuoc Tuy Province capital. The opening ceremony was attended by hundreds of students and local residents who heard Major-General MacDonald's address. After his address Major-General MacDonald and the Province Chief, Colonel Truoc, cut a ribbon at the entrance to the new block. Official guests and some of the school's 100 students then moved inside the building, where they inspected facilities and some of the stock of books which will be used in the library. Finance for the project was provided mainly by Australian-Vietnamese Civil Action Projects, a Queensland based committee. The library and science block is among 23 classrooms built for Vietnamese schools by Australian military civil air since June 1967.
Brown speaks at the opening of a new library and science block at Chau Van Kiep High School an Australian-Vietnamese Civil Action Project in Phuoc Tuy Province of South Vietnam; description of events
Baria, South Vietnam. 1968-09. Exterior of the newly completed science block and library at the Chau Van Thiep High School at Baria. The new block was built with funds raised in Queensland. Almost $4,
Baria, South Vietnam. 1968-06. Captain Arthur Schaschke of Wacol, Qld, checks work being carried out by Vietnamese workers on the science and library block at the Baria High School in Phuoc Tuy Provin
Baria, South Vietnam. 1968-06. Captain Arthur Schaschke of Wacol, Qld, observes the progress of Vietnamese school children in the Baria High School in a classroom built by the 1st Australian Civil Aff
Baria, South Vietnam. 1969-10. The Australian Ambassador to South Vietnam, Ralph L. Harry, meets Vietnamese teachers at the Chau Van Tiep High School in the capital of Phuoc Tuy Province. The library
Baria, South Vietnam. 1968-06. Warrant Officer Ernie Sly of Kingston, ACT (centre), passes building instructions to a Vietnamese worker through an interpreter, in the library and science block being b
