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Wason Byers 1955 expedition

Hoofs and Horns, September 1955, ‘Territory Letter’, page 8:
… but from No. 10 Bore on the Murranji, Sid Tennyson and Wason Byers were prospecting the country with Geiger Counters.  Sid was in Newcastle Waters getting some mail out when I saw him, and he said they were giving the country a thorough survey.  It was in this region that the ill-fated Hitchcock and Anderson perished when searching for Kingsford Smith and his crew many years ago.

The 1928 railway survey line was followed by these prospectors in 1955 along with Eric Emil Ostatshenco, according to a note dated Nov 29th 1968 by E.E. Ostatschenco and Roy Byers, found at their camp at "106 MILE. PEG. FROM FREW PONDS".

References

Simpson, Bruce. 1996. Packhorse Drover. Sydney: ABC Books.
p.20: “Wason Byers, , one of the Territory’s rougher denizens, dropped into the Rankine one day...” [re holding man on stove]

Wason Byers, a "rough house fighting bully".  Bill Hamill (Curriba, Yelarbon Qld 4388) letter to editor SHOF vol. 61 (Dec 1996), p.13.

Allen, Geoff. 1997. The Gun Ringer. CQUP. Chapter 12 'Brunette'.
pp.109, 111-3 Wason Byers [whipping from policeman Snow c1950]
at Byer's block near Brunette after Brunette races; Jack and Billy
"he was hard man, 6'3" in height ... first came as a drover from somewhere back inside"


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