Yunndaga was originally known as Woolgar: The staff of the Menzies Consolidated Gold Mine 1916- Thomas ELLIS back row far left, Centre back row is Arthur BELDON. A new town has recently been added to the Outback Family History website. Yunndaga, is a small town about 7 km South of Menzies. The above photograph is […]
What is a Homestead Lease ???
23/07/2022 By Leave a Comment
The Homestead Leases, or more correctly Miners Homestead Leases (MHL), were issued under the mining laws of the time – until the demise of the 1904 Mining Act in 1982. These laws allowed bonafide miners/prospectors who held a Gold Mining Lease (GML) in the area to apply for suitable land (mostly away from their workings) […]
An Unlucky Gamble – by Big Jim Allanson
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Dolly Pot – Western Mail, Perth – 21 November 1940, page 8 OVER THE PLATES An Unlucky Gamble. DEAR “Non-Com,” Early in the “Roaring Nineties,” Billy Collins, Ned Campion, Barney – and I were camped at a pool ten miles west of Cue. At the south end of the pool, flies were making short work […]
The Prosperity of Southern Cross – 1936
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Western Mail – Perth 24 December 1936, page 16 THE PROSPERITY OF SOUTHERN CROSS NEW TOWN HALL OPENED SOUTHERN CROSS was in a gala mood last Wednesday. The cause of many arrangements, official and festive, was the opening of a new ornament to the district’s civic architecture, an imposing Town Hall surmounted by a high […]
Kundana – The town that never was!
16/07/2022 By Leave a Comment
Kundana is situated 25kms west-northwest of Kalgoorlie and 27 km nor-northeast of Coolgardie. In the 1890s the area was known informally as the ’21 Mile’ because it was 21 miles from Coolgardie on the Black Flag Road. Other unofficial names used were ‘Barkers Find’ after the first prospector in the area and also ‘White Flag’ […]
