Word: bathurst
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Census men seeking out the "gold fossickers" in the Bathurst district of New South Wales-site of Australia's booming gold rush just a century ago -had to pick up directions at remote bush stations, then push into the hills and gullies. At the Turon River Valley they found a pocket of prospectors living in ancient humpies-huts whose name derives from the aboriginal oompi plus a cockney h-and one old recluse dwelling in the straight-up-and-down cliffs of the Macquarie River. In the southern snow fields of the Crackenback Range around Thredbo, Smiggin Holes...
...ceremonies at the capital at Bathurst, the British formally turned over sovereignty to the continent's smallest nation, a wriggle of land 200 miles long and 15 to 30 miles wide situated on both sides of the lower Gambia River. Except for its coast, it is entirely surrounded by the former French colony of Senegal, and one British governor-general called Gambia "a geographic and economic absurdity." The British, who arrived in Gambia in the 16th century, repeatedly tried to trade it off to France in exchange for better land. It has no railway, no airline, not even...
...each of its 316,000 men, women and children, but sporadic attempts to diversify the economy have ended in disaster. A mining scheme failed (no minerals); an ambitious shark fishery collapsed (no demand). The British government put $2,000,000 into a model poultry farm outside Bathurst, but disease and bad feed killed off the chick ens, and after production of 40,000 eggs-at $50 an egg-the farm was transformed into a teacher's college...
...Australia, as elsewhere, the traditional horse-race prize is a cash purse and a gleaming trophy. But last week in New South Wales, the Bathurst Turf Club announced something new: payment in kind. To the lucky horse that wins the club's big February race for fillies and mares will go one free stud service (worth $1,180) from Tulloch, a famed stallion that won $247,776 before he was retired. "We are convinced," said Club Secretary Gordon Bourke, "that the prize will cause great interest...