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Named for a rock outcrop in the New South Wales back country where it began mining a treasure-trove of silver, lead and zinc in 1885, B.H.P. turned to steelmaking in the early 1900s. Led by the late Essington Lewis, a single-minded empire builder who made himself Australia's "Mr. Steel," the company doggedly pursued efficiency, threw up new plants, cornered rich ore and coal reserves, and by 1935 had gobbled up its only major competitor. But it was the pell-mell postwar growth of heavy industry and construction in Australia that gave B.H.P. its biggest forward push...
Owen Stanley . . . produced the first (and probably only) theatrical performance ever seen in Northwestern Australia. This was a play acted by naval personnel for the entertainment of the ship's company of the Beagle which called at Port Essington in 1839. Aboard the Beagle was Charles Darwin who gave his name to another United Nations outpost...
...Field before Provost Smith and Major Kelley on April 20, and the university band which has been formally incorporated in the Regiment as a military band was for the first time seen. Arrangements have been made to allow the Regiment to hold rifle practice at the Government range at Essington, below Philadelphia. The examinations for men wishing to qualify as cadet officers are held every week...
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