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    A CORNISH PASTICHE

    Jul 17, 2019 3 minutes
    BY KIRSTY MCKENZIE
    PHOTOGRAPHY KEN BRASS

    It’s the kind of contention trivia buffs love. As anyone who was paying even minimal attention in primary school history class will attest, Edward Hargraves found Australia’s first gold just west of Bathurst in 1851, thus starting the inaugural gold rush and changing the course of the country’s history. Or did he? If you ask the residents of the present-day district of Byng they’ll give you a very different answer.

    But to get to the bottom of the conundrum, we need to go back to the completion of the road over the Blue

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