By MICK ROBERTS © THERE was difficulty ordering a beer, let alone booking a room in Wedderburn’s two pubs in March 1950 when gold fever gripped the sleepy Victorian farming community. A resident unearthed a 175-ounce nugget of gold in… Read More ›
gold rush
Garie’s ‘gold rush’
By MICK ROBERTS © A FORMER police officer, and one time host of the Cabbage Tree Hotel at Fairy Meadow, Mick Hanley was quite surprised, while going about his business as a licensing cop in 1990, to find his family name… Read More ›