Mildred was the only permanent resident of the ghost town of Comet Vale and was most likely the only active woman prospector with her own gold mine in Australia in 1957.

She was born in 1896 in Yellowdine, just outside Southern Cross, Western Australia.

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A brief account of Lillian King (nee Waldeck) who was my Great-Grandmother and pioneer of Greenough, Western Australia. I found this letter to Norma King, my Nanna, which has been reproduced and published. Her father was one of the first missionaries in the region.

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Amusing history on the celebrations Japanese locals arranged in Kalgoorlie and Boulder in 1905 after the fall of Port Arthur in the Russo-Japanese war.

First published by Norma King in "Colourful Tales of the Western Australian Goldfields" in 1980 by Rigby Publishers. Copyright now belongs to Lorraine Kelly, 2019.

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