C. Y. O'Connor
Statue of Paddy Hannon in Hannon Street, Kalgoorlie, with drinking fountain in bag. Hannon was the first prospector to find gold in Kalgoorlie. |
Water
was unbelievably dear in the first summer. Even a cup of tea was a luxury.
Miners did not wash their clothes in water: they beat them with a stick
to remove the red dust. How the plates and knives for cleaned was a question
that sensible visitors did not ask when eating their first meal at the
camp of a neighbour. Geoffrey Blaney (1930
- ) The Golden Mile St. Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 1993, p.
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