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Voucher - 6 Pence Hay Camp 7; Confinement Voucher
| Issuer | Camp Seven Bank, Internment Camp Hay |
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| Year | 1941 |
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| Currency | Pound (1788-1966) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue on cream card stock. Central vignette comprises a camp seal with kangaroo, emu, and merino ram set against a barbed-wire background. A decorative border of interlocking barbed-wire spirals frames the note. |
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| Reverse lettering | THIS NOTE IS VALID ONLY WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF CAMP SEVEN INTERNMENT CAMP HAY The bank is under no obligation to honour this Note if presented by Holders outside this Camp. |
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Hay Camp 7 was one of three internment camps established in the New South Wales outback town of Hay in 1940–41, holding German and Austrian civilian internees transferred from Britain aboard the HMT Dunera — a voyage already infamous for the brutal treatment of its passengers by British military guards. Once at Hay, the internees organised themselves with remarkable efficiency, running educational programs, theatrical productions, and an internal camp economy. The voucher system that Camp Seven Bank administered was part of that self-governance: internees received camp pay for labour, and the vouchers circulated internally in lieu of Australian currency, which was not permitted in the compounds.
George Teltscher, who designed this piece, was himself a Dunera internee — a trained commercial artist from Vienna whose skills were put to immediate use by the camp community.