The Mile that Midas TouchedThe story of Kalgoorlie's golden mile - the richest few acres of gold-bearing country in the world - and of the rest of the Eastern goldfields in Western Australia. |
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Page 72
... Fremantle brought crowds of eager gold - seekers into the colony . Hotels and boarding houses could not cope with requests for accommodation . Hundreds of men were camped in tents on the outskirts of Perth among teamsters loading their ...
... Fremantle brought crowds of eager gold - seekers into the colony . Hotels and boarding houses could not cope with requests for accommodation . Hundreds of men were camped in tents on the outskirts of Perth among teamsters loading their ...
Page 100
... Fremantle . In 1899 , at the invitation of the A.W.A. , the first Trades Union and Labor Congress in Western Australia was held in Coolgardie , with Hugh de Largie , later to be first Labor senator for the goldfields in the Federal ...
... Fremantle . In 1899 , at the invitation of the A.W.A. , the first Trades Union and Labor Congress in Western Australia was held in Coolgardie , with Hugh de Largie , later to be first Labor senator for the goldfields in the Federal ...
Page 119
... Fremantle Harbour on a site where other experts declared it could not be built . Today his statue looks out over Fremantle Harbour . It shows a lean man with a large head , posed in a conventional attitude and wearing a frock coat , but ...
... Fremantle Harbour on a site where other experts declared it could not be built . Today his statue looks out over Fremantle Harbour . It shows a lean man with a large head , posed in a conventional attitude and wearing a frock coat , but ...
Contents
A Town to Remember | 11 |
Background to Discovery | 21 |
The Cross over Kalgoorlie | 33 |
Copyright | |
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