Expedition truck log Erldunda Station to Laverton 1932

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Mottled blue 205x337 mm notebook annotated on fly leaf "On deposit in SA Museum Adelaide please return. Log of Michael Terry leader Emu Mining Co expedition 1932." also recipe for "Brownie". Each daily entry includes camp number (eg C22) and a weather report.

  • 9 June depart Adelaide by train accompanied by SJ O'Grady (prospector) Quorn, Alice Springs, Rumbalara, Gus Elliott, Horseshoe Bend, camel train, Nobby Buex, Ben Nicker, Staines, Longbottom, Polkinghorne, Tempe Downs, ironestone cave, Lofty and Lockey (Australian Aboriginal men), Bryan Bowman, Mt Musgrave, Thattalmurra, George Giles Range, Oolculca rock hole, Ted Harris, Bob Purvis, Alice Well, Harry Tilmouth, Fred Grose, Sid Staines, two landscape artists arrived from Melbourne (AA 663 Battarbee and Gardiner), Littlejohn, Elias Watson, Riley car, Chinner, Pearce, Mrs Tucker, Jhonnie (Australian Aboriginal man), Cothard, Kitto, Lithgow, Inland Mission, Middleton Ponds, Allen Basedow, Hayball, Todmorden to Henbury, 5CL radio Station, Billy Stokes (Australian Aboriginal man), Henbury meteorite , Walter Smith (Australian Aboriginal man), Alan Breadon, "The Devils Punchbowl", Lithgow, Jhonnie (Australian Aboriginal man)

  • 1 July Running Waters, Harry Tilmouth, Tim Norman, Bob Buck, Liddle, Mt Ebenezer, Eustace McKinna, Johansen & Smith (murder victims), Sladen Waters, Dan Cole, Tempe Downs, Emu Bush, Ilbpilla, Breaden, quinine, Friars Balsam, Mrs Lewezdky, Sheppard fixed latitude as 24 degrees 32 minutes, Nicker, O'Grady, camel saddle from Afghanistan, 5 July skeletal remains, "Hairy Arse" (Australian Aboriginal man), Glen Edith, Mrs Crawford, 10 July fossils, Mt Lewis, black cockatoos, Oolcalea, brumbies, Chuttler rockhole, Haasts Bluff, 15 July erected cairn marked "MT, BN, SOG 14.7.32", Mt Peculiar, Mareenie, Mt Udor, Mt Liebig, Mt Russell, fosite dykes, Hermannsburg, Salvation Jane, Ali Mahomet, MASE, Lasseters party, Mick (Australian Aboriginal man), Edmund Albert Colson (AA 62), Thornycroft six wheeler, Lake Burnett, Davenport, Salvation rockhole, 29 July native well, Braitling, LA Wells, Vaughan Springs, circular vertical shafts

  • 1 August MASE, granite boulder North of Vaughan Springs, Murray & Maurice 1901, bristle covered rat, Ethel Creek, Fred Daws, Jimmy Wyckham, Newland Cave, Singleton, Yow (Australian Aboriginal man), Lake MacKay, Tanami goldfield, tree blaze "T 11-8-32", boulder on slab with stone arrangments, twin camel calfs, cockatells, 15 August new soak, Surprise rockhole, George McEwin Hills, 18 August native well, skull of spinefax rat for SA Museum, Wallace Sawford, Braitling, 28 August mound springs, Constable Lynch, Ilbilla, rock carvings

  • 1 September Ethel creek, emu wren, Davenport, Albinia, Stanlay, equinoxial gales, Waite Creek, Era Spring, 15 September eclipse of the moon, Mt Leisler, Lucky Hit rockhole, Thomas Reservoir, Salvation rockhole, Lake MacKay, Larry Tippen, Dry Bluff

  • 1 November burial of Border Expedition stores, Era Spring, Sladen Waters, Rawlinson, cabage gum marked "Lasseter 2.13.3-0", Lake Christopher, Lake Amadeus, Toolcoopern, Hasletts Well, Gordon Spring, Piltardie, Princess Alexandra parrots, Lilla Creek, Tommys Flat, Warburton Range, Todd Range, Quartz Soak, Elder Creek, Gibsons desert, Mt Harrison, RB Lugg, Hughes Creek, Sam Hazlett, Bill Higgs, Bert Stewart, Paddy Whelan, Louis Mueller, Mt Squires, Michael Roach, copper silicate, Mt Hilda, Bill Marshall, West Australian party, Capt, Foreman, Coote, Cable, Talbot, Liversley Range, Quest Expedition, Mt Harvest, Laverton, Mt Shaw, Mt Waugh, Glen Cumming, Julsons Belt

  • 1 December Centralian Gold Co., Stewart and Cable, Coote, Lindsay Pearce syndicate, Sopwith Gnu, Harry Shaw, Laverton, Formen, Liversley, Buliderin and Erskine, Talbot, Whelan, Lake Throssell, McGill, Gunbah, Minnie Creek, High Point gamma hole, bush fire 25 miles wide, Cable, Terry back injury, Rutters Grave, Sam Haslett, Smallpage, White Cliffs homestead, December 18 arrived Laverton, Matron Hart, Captain Farmer, Centralion Gold Exploration Company, Jutsons Rocks, Erlstoun Station, Cuthbert Porter, Harris & Lemaro, Pollock, Leahys Palace Hotel, Kalgoorlie, Jake McIntyre, AJ Thomson, Victoria Hotel, Mrs Marger, Horseshoe Bend

  • 1 January 1933 Chas Brown

CreatorMichael Terry
ControlAA 333/5/18
Date Range1932  -  1932
FormatsDiaries
Series AA 333/05