Mulga Queen today is a well-known Aboriginal community located 150 km northwest of Laverton in the Goldfields region of Western Australia and within the Shire of Laverton. The permanent buildings making up Mulga Queen were established in the mid-1980s. The settlement originally came about as a result of gold discoveries in the region in the […]
Cuddingwarra Kate –
02/09/2023 By Leave a Comment
Western Mail Perth – 3 March 1906, page 47 CUDDINGWARRA KATE By R. W. Patrick Tho fortnightly-mail coach was due. Jack Crenane, the driver, was generally right up to time, and a big crowd always congregated in front of Corney’s pub just before five o’clock to see it come in. The arrival of the coach […]
The Mysterious Tom Cue
26/08/2023 By 2 Comments
The mysterious Tom Cue By Jim Foster – https: www.goldgemtreasure.com.au/shop Tom Cue is mostly known for his involvement in the finding of gold near Cue, the Western Australian town that bears his name. And, while most people assume it was Tom who made the discovery, it was actually his partners, Michael John Fitzgerald and Edward […]
The Law Provides – book review
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Western Mail 1 July 1937, page 8 – “Just Roamin Around” by Non-Com Edgar Morrow (1896-1953) was born in Lancashire, England and arrived in Western Australia as a youth of twelve with his family to go farming at Dongerlocking. At the start of World War 1, he enlisted in the 28th Battalion, attaining the […]
Kalgoorlie Hospital Admission Records – No 8
26/08/2023 By 4 Comments
The next files are now released: “3600 individual new entries” File 37 and 38 – from 30th January 1916 to 27 August 1919 The Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital, told us some 17 years ago, that all of the original patient admission registers from the very first days of the Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital were still stored in […]
