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Page 88
... lived in small hillside huts , erected by their mates in Sunday working bees . Even in 1901 , when houses were rapidly replacing huts , 1,100 of the 2,900 habitations in the dis- trict were single - roomed huts , and another 700 houses ...
... lived in small hillside huts , erected by their mates in Sunday working bees . Even in 1901 , when houses were rapidly replacing huts , 1,100 of the 2,900 habitations in the dis- trict were single - roomed huts , and another 700 houses ...
Page 151
... lived in Australia . There survives one London register listing 2,350 shareholders who held about 40 per cent of the issued capital . It would seem that the Scottish cities - Glasgow , Edinburgh , Aberdeen , Paisley , Leith and ...
... lived in Australia . There survives one London register listing 2,350 shareholders who held about 40 per cent of the issued capital . It would seem that the Scottish cities - Glasgow , Edinburgh , Aberdeen , Paisley , Leith and ...
Page 279
... lived . In the following January he died at Penghana , the general manager's residence at Queenstown . A. H. P. Moline , his right - hand man for thirteen years , was the new general manager . Unlike Murray , who had spent his mining ...
... lived . In the following January he died at Penghana , the general manager's residence at Queenstown . A. H. P. Moline , his right - hand man for thirteen years , was the new general manager . Unlike Murray , who had spent his mining ...
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