Celebrations for Bonegilla Migrant Reception and Training Centre's 70th anniversary

By Janet Howie
Updated November 8 2017 - 3:42pm, first published 3:00pm
SHARING STORIES: Forty-eight years after arriving as a migrant, Lois Salvisberg now volunteers at the Bonegilla centre. Picture: MARK JESSER
SHARING STORIES: Forty-eight years after arriving as a migrant, Lois Salvisberg now volunteers at the Bonegilla centre. Picture: MARK JESSER

A New Zealander who had become a Swiss citizen, Lois Salvisberg perhaps wasn’t a typical new arrival to the Bonegilla Migrant Reception and Training Centre in 1969.

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