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Page 114
... Water Supply Scheme , sixty years before , by 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 ...
... Water Supply Scheme , sixty years before , by 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 ...
Page 116
... water from the Scheme reached Kalgoorlie . Lack of water had been the major problem in the development of Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie . A fearful typhoid epidemic had killed hundreds on Coolgardie when , during drought , some of the ...
... water from the Scheme reached Kalgoorlie . Lack of water had been the major problem in the development of Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie . A fearful typhoid epidemic had killed hundreds on Coolgardie when , during drought , some of the ...
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... Water Scheme has been improved and modernized . Along the length of the pipe , running 346 miles from Mundaring ... Water Supply people grazed and rested the big , awkward beasts that played such an important part in the big project ...
... Water Scheme has been improved and modernized . Along the length of the pipe , running 346 miles from Mundaring ... Water Supply people grazed and rested the big , awkward beasts that played such an important part in the big project ...
Contents
A Town to Remember | 11 |
Background to Discovery | 20 |
The Cross over Kalgoorlie | 32 |
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