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Jenny Davison2022-02-07T15:39:55+10:30Article Australian Womans weekly 2-2-1964 re Opal Cave. Mentions Faye Nayler & Ettie Hall
Article Australian Womans weekly 2-2-1964 re Opal Cave. Mentions Faye Nayler & Ettie Hall
Poem "They're a Weird Mob" written in the 1960's about people living at the Shell Patch. Names include Lee Robins, Murray Anock, Dean McMullen, wally Leuch, Bill McDougall, Jim the Pommy, Ron & Joan Ayton, Lofty, Owen & Lewis Daws, LLoyd & Joe Fimeri, Max Grund, Col & Laurie Seekamp, Ron Schubert, Howard Edwards & Lennie Dunne. CPT 22-6-1994
Newspaper article "A dugout on Fire" re a fire in Bert Paxton's dugout in 1929
Notes on the Stuart range Opal Field by Government Geologist L Keith Ward, following a visit to the field in 1916 GI 20007
Advertiser article "Coober Pedy:charity is not enough" 30-8-1980 re. impact of television's introduction to Coober Pedy Mentions; Neville Hyatt (Progress & Miners Ass president), Kevin Dowling (local pharmacist), Mr Hill (State Local Government Minister), Mrs Dee Atkinson, Richard Russell ( Port Augusta pilot) GI 90022
Article "Stuart Range Opal Fields" from the Transcontinental 7th April 1922 Reprinted from the "Mining Review" under authority of T Pascoe, Minister of Mines re opal industry at the time including notes for miners on obligations and rights of Miners Right holders GI 30022
Article "Coober Pedy Novel Village on Opal Field" 10th January 1922 about the living conditions and dugouts on the field, mail service, water supply from the Western Argus (Kalgoorlie WA) GI 30021
GI 90021 'Radiation Checks Carried Out,' Coober Pedy Times July 1984, pp 1-3 Concerns over radiation levels of buildings, vehicles, appliances and the school bulldozer that were acquired at the Maralinga test site
Article "Opal Town" from The Australian Women's Weekly - September 3 1975 Mentions Faye Nayler and gives general information on Coober Pedy in 1975 GI 80029