W Percy & Joan Yates - ephemera
1. Letter 28 May 1956
2. The pupils' class-book of geography, Africa & Asia. J Yates Form IV A P.L.C. Cottesloe
3. 2 "University" Loose Leaf Books. Anatomy 1st Term 1938. Physiology 1st Term.
4. 2 Temple Bar Loose Leaf Books. Theory of GYMN. Gymn: Orders. reminders
5. 2 Students' Note Books. Clinical Reports W Percy Yates Wards II & VII Summer 1911.
6. Practical Course of Chemical Physiology W P Yates 30/1/08. Notes on the Clinical Examination of the Blood. W Percy Yates April /11
7. Choix de Fables de La Fontaine. P Yates
8. Photograph Album. Black & White photographs from 1930 - 1959
9. Envelope of 6 X-Rays and 1 Electrocardiographic Record dated 31 March 1942. Addressed to Dr J G Hislop. X-Rays of Miss Joan Yates.
10. Black & White photograph of a man and two children 1 girl & 1 boy.
11. Newspaper article from N.S.W. newspaper. National Fitness "Valuable Instruction by Visitors from Melbourne.
12. Invoice for typewriter, from Horler Typewriter Co. London to Miss J Yates c/o Ladies Empire Club 14.12.56
13. Receipts' from Wentworth Hotel Sydney to Miss J Yates 23 November 1939
14. Receipt from Commonwealth of Australia for duty on goods purchased on board ship ?, 18.11.1939
15. Hand written Customs docket for Cross Atlantic C.P.R Railway, Vancouver to Melbourne
16. Certificate for exportation of bank notes for Miss Joan Yates to Montreal, Quebec. 11 September 1939
17. Invoice from Hotel Georgia, Vancouver for Miss J Yates, Miss E Piesse, Mrs H Stewart. October 20 1939 - October 25 1939
18. Music sheet of The Lone-Girl-Flyer. Dedicated to Miss Amy Johnson. Song Words & Music by Jack O'Hgan.
19. Dance Card for the A.M.S.S Annual Ball Saturday, 8th June, 1940
20. Myer Emporium card. The Assistant who served you to-day in Sports Wear Dept., wa Miss Yates No. 4382
21. Myer's Check Seal. Asst's Name Miss Yates
22. Blood Analysis Kit. Leitz
23. Box of Sterile Surgical Ligature (Catgut) The London Hospital. Date of Manufacture 7 Feb 1941
24. Box of 5 Pocket Note Books
25. Framed Justice of the Peace certificate for Dr Walter Percy Yates 1941
26. Medical Students Registration -Certificate. Walter Percy Yates. 27 October 1906
Details
Details
Dr Walter Percy Yates was born in Yorkshire. He came to Western Australia in 1912 and first set up a practice in York. Then he worked for a short time at Woodman Point Quarantine Station. After the war, he came to Busselton and was appointed Government Medical Officer for the district in 1922, a position he held until 1955.
When Dr Yates began practicing, he was the only doctor between Capel and Albany and often visited patients on horseback, horse and cart or car depending on the road conditions. He helped to establish the St John Ambulance in the district and in 1940 was recognised as an honorary life member. He was a member of the first board of management for the Villa Maria project, the first retirement village in the area.
His home in Busselton was built between 1922 and 1929 by the prominent architectural team of Cohen & Eales. Dr Yates lived in the house and ran his surgery from the front rooms. The verandah outside the surgery and facing the street was well known by residents for more than 30 years as they filled the chairs lined up along its length waiting for their turn to see the doctor.
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May Yates wife of Walter Percy Yates was born in Halifax Yorkshire in 1889 as Evelyn May Cocker. In 1912 she married Walter Percy Yates and between 1912 to 1917 they lived in the north of England where she was active in the Girl Guides that had been established by Lord Baden Powell and his sister Agnes in 1909. In 1917 the Yates moved to Busselton where he became the doctor for the area and she became involved with the Busselton Guides to satisfy her interest in guiding and the welfare of girls.
Joan Yates b. 1919 d. 2012
