Hello everyone, and the Revd Fr Brian Tee, I just googled Coolgardie Safe and found heaps of entries and images about this invention, familiar to me since childhood. I had relatives working in the area on cattle stations and they probably, were drawn to WA from Victoria during the gold rushes in both states. The google entries also offer some background to the W.A. goldfields themselves. Victoria (the state) and Western Australian have a lot in common with South Africa in that the discovery of gold gave such a tremendous boost to development. Wasn’t an Australian involved in the big find in J’Berg? I agree this stuff is what makes genealogy so interesting. We all want to find out what it was like for our ancestors. And most of them did it very tough. Margaret Farrell