Daily News (Perth) 9 December 1929, page 6 PEN PORTRAITS – Prospector and Politician With only a comparatively short break the Hon. Henry Gregory. M.H.R has been associated with the politics of Australia for the past twenty-eight years. Like many other successful men in Western Australia, Mr. Gregory was born in Victoria, his native town […]
Anton MARINKOVIC – grave tales
Anton MARINKOVIC – buried 25th September 1909 aged 16 months in the Roman Catholic Section of the Kalgoorlie Cemetery, Grave No 3365. The inscription says: ANTON The Beloved Son of Anton and Mary Marinkovic Died 23rd September 1909 Aged 16 months Had he asked us well we know We should cry ‘O spare this blow’ […]
Playing Hookey !!! A very serious game.
‘Playing Hooky’, many of you, myself included, may think this means by definition:- To be absent from school with out permission or excuse. However if you were a drinker in the 1930’s in Kalgoorlie Boulder you probably would remember a quite different game. I first heard of this game when an ‘Outback Family History’ reader, […]
A verse to the Flu: 100yrs ago
Just over 100 years ago we were advised to do similar things to protect our health as we are today. Regional towns in WA were quarantined just as we will be doing next week. Leonora Miner 21 June 1919 Averse to the Flu. (With apologies to Mrs Ella Wheeler Wilcox). Laugh and the world […]
The Prince and the Diggers Daughter-
Nambucca and Bellinger News 6 May 1932, page 5 A TALE OF THE GOLDFIELDS written by JAMES GRAYSON for the “Nambucca News” When gold is calling, however tortuous the road, civilised men all the world over (and some women, too) will overcome all apparent impossible obstacles, reaching their objective often in the last stage of […]
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