TO CELEBRATE !
GOLDFIELDS COMMUNITY. IN t.'F.NTRAL AUSTRALIA, r A ust & N.Z. Cable Assn.) (Received August 3. at 10 P-m.) SYDNEY, August 3. Die production of gold al Tennant s Creek. Central Australia. having reached th,, hundred thousand pounds mark since the discovery of the field in 1924. it is proposed to mark the occasion with a suitable demonstration, features of which will Ire tin Aboriginal c-orroboree, pioneer dinnei. bonfires, and an all-night dance. The first <rold was found bv a local postal employee in 1924. within a hundred wards of the track blazed by the explorer Stuart, in 1861. Several rich crushings last week hav e taken the gold output- well beyond the hundred thousand pounds mark.
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Grey River Argus, 4 August 1936, Page 5
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117TO CELEBRATE ! Grey River Argus, 4 August 1936, Page 5
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