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Jenny Davison2025-03-05T13:43:29+10:30Paper from Chief Inspector of Explosives C. S. Crisp, "Recommendations for the preparation of ANFO cartridges for use at the Opal Fields of South Australia." November 1982 MI 00087
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Jenny Davison2025-02-09T10:29:22+10:30Receipt from the Miners Store 25-6-1967 for set of explosives. Total cost $29.60
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Jenny Davison2024-07-28T13:43:32+09:30Update of information about Minnie Berrington by Stuart Wattison BI 00034 43
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Jenny Davison2024-01-17T21:02:40+10:30Document - Explanatory Notes on the Referendum held by Council on 7-4-1990. Referendum concerned the possible development of 1. The Triangle 2. The Old Water Conservation Reserve 3. The Jewellers Shop CA 00002
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Jenny Davison2024-08-02T18:55:49+09:30Article "Farewell to Con" CPT September 1988 p37 Tells of the life of Con Stingas, in Greece during WW II and of his life in Australia, coming to Coober Pedy in the 1960's. Stingas Road on the Flat is named after him. Actual name according to cemetery records is Konstantine Stiggas Greek spelling of his name Tsigas. He had the nickname "Spy" due to his undercover activities for the British during the war.
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Jenny Davison2024-01-16T15:28:49+10:30Article CPT August 1988 p 13 "'Vale' Pec" by Robyn Greenwood. "With the death of Jaroslav Edward Pecanek on July 15th 1988, the north has lost one of its great characters." Mentions that "Pec" and his wife Jindra fled the communist regime of Czechoslovakia in 1949, then their early years in Australia, arriving in Oodnadatta in February 1960 where he had purchased the store which was the family business for the next 24 years. Also mentions his sons Henry and Peter, his contract with the French Petroleum Oil Co to construct a road across the Simpson desert now known as the "French [...]
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Jenny Davison2023-12-15T21:07:06+10:30GI 70045 Geoff Byrnes' recollections of the summer of 1959-1960. Mentions Donald, Beverly and Michael Byrnes, the Kempe family at Macumba and Dick Nunn at Anna Creek
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Jenny Davison2023-12-07T15:17:35+10:30Article "From the Archives" from The Real Australian Winter Edition 2023 p 26-27 Written by Anne Ranse nee Dau. An account of the Bush Church Aid service at Coober Pedy Medical Centre 1969-1972