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 168
... School or later to the School of Mines . Small boys wore boots , not shoes , and then only on Sundays and special occasions . Depending on their denomination , most children went to Sunday School ; for many the churches , through the ...
... School or later to the School of Mines . Small boys wore boots , not shoes , and then only on Sundays and special occasions . Depending on their denomination , most children went to Sunday School ; for many the churches , through the ...
Page 173
... school rolls , and there was a larger sprinkling of Southern European names . There had always been a leavening of foreigners in Kalgoorlie that had enriched community life . In the early days they were often collec- tively referred to ...
... school rolls , and there was a larger sprinkling of Southern European names . There had always been a leavening of foreigners in Kalgoorlie that had enriched community life . In the early days they were often collec- tively referred to ...
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... school students , reported back to the Kalgoorlie and Boulder schools after the Christmas holidays . About that time ... school was carted in to become a pre - school play - centre in Tupper Street ; and Goldfields defeated a West ...
... school students , reported back to the Kalgoorlie and Boulder schools after the Christmas holidays . About that time ... school was carted in to become a pre - school play - centre in Tupper Street ; and Goldfields defeated a West ...
Contents
A Town to Remember | 11 |
Background to Discovery | 21 |
The Cross over Kalgoorlie | 33 |
Copyright | |
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