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 113
... Sir John Forrest requesting the introduction of a Redistribution of Seats Bill into the current session of Parliament . This was refused , and the Convention then reassembled , with delegates from the Chamber of Mines and the Mine ...
... Sir John Forrest requesting the introduction of a Redistribution of Seats Bill into the current session of Parliament . This was refused , and the Convention then reassembled , with delegates from the Chamber of Mines and the Mine ...
Page 117
... Sir John Forrest , then Minister for Defence in the new Federal Parliament . That blistering summer's day when the pipe - line from Mundaring Weir supplanted the rusting condensers was one of the happiest days , as well as one of the ...
... Sir John Forrest , then Minister for Defence in the new Federal Parliament . That blistering summer's day when the pipe - line from Mundaring Weir supplanted the rusting condensers was one of the happiest days , as well as one of the ...
Page 121
... John Maher , who in August 1894 applied to the Forrest Govern- ment for the right to construct a pipe - line from the vicinity of Northam , about sixty miles east of Perth ... Sir John Forrest . He was , beyond doubt , the author of all 121.
... John Maher , who in August 1894 applied to the Forrest Govern- ment for the right to construct a pipe - line from the vicinity of Northam , about sixty miles east of Perth ... Sir John Forrest . He was , beyond doubt , the author of all 121.
Contents
A Town to Remember | 11 |
Background to Discovery | 21 |
The Cross over Kalgoorlie | 33 |
Copyright | |
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