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City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder > Records

Requistion to John Waters Kirwan

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Rust brown leather bound book of 19 pages that have signatures of people from Kalgoorlie, Boulder, Norseman, Esperance, and Broad Arrow who petitioned John Kirwan to nominate for the Federal Parliament of 1901

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Sir John Kirwan was editor of the Kalgoorlie Miner and pro-Federalist in Western Australia. He advocated for Western Australia to join the Commonwealth of Australia.

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cwa-org-111-KMC2011.52

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City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder

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Requisition to John Kirwan

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