Local Government
Kalgoorlie-Boulder
Region
Goldfields
St Albans Rd Kalgoorlie
MI States; Lot 53 Kilarney Street
Kalgoorlie-Boulder
Goldfields
Constructed from 1966, Constructed from 1954
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| Municipal Inventory | Adopted | 09 Jul 2001 | Category 2 | |
: Goldfields W.A. Section) and in demonstrating its ongoing development.
: The remote control and operating room is a timber framed structure clad with weatherboard dado and flat asbestos sheets. The roof and surrounding verandah are clad with corrugated galvanised iron. The verandah is supported by square timber posts and has a concrete apron. The 1966 building is a brick construction.
Captain George Lewis was closely involved in setting up an aerial ambulance service in the goldfields, which relied greatly on Western Australian initiative. Flynn 9the Reverend Flynn famed in the Royal Flying Doctor Service) did not become much involved. Mr Lewis was the mainspring who operated a charter aircraft under the business name of Goldfields Airways. George Lewis and a committee founded the Goldfields Flying Doctor Service in 1931 (Webb, 1993: 688). In 1937, H. Sneddon travelled to Adelaide to a federal conference of the Air Ambulance Medical Service (AAMS), and the Eastern Goldfields created their own branch of the AAMS. Mr Lewis' contract in 1938 was for 8,000 miles at 1s.0d. per mile, annual minimum £800. There was no set fee for the service in those days (Webb, 1993: 688). By June 1939, a radio based was established, in one room of a new 3 roomed radio operator's cottage. In 1942, the name was changed to Flying Doctor Service of Australia (Eastern Goldfields W.A. Section). In 1954, a remote control and operating room was built separate from the base cottage. In 1966, a new radio base was constructed, adjacent to the remote control and operating room, and the adjacent cottage was demolished. In 2001, both buildings stand vacant as the Royal Flying Doctor Service has a new operation and administration base at Kalgoorlie-Boulder airport (King, 1992). The Eastern Goldfields section of the RFDS did not own its own aircraft until 1959 (a Cessna 182), and the Goldfields RFDS did not have a permanent flying doctor until 1964 - Dr Lindsay Matthews. In 1963 a Beechcraft Baron aircraft appeared, in 1969, a Piper Navajo, and in 1971 the Baron was sold and another Navajo bought. The first permanent pilot was John Roulston in 1959, succeeded later by Don Ende (Webb, 1993: 689-690).
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| Ref ID No | Ref Name | Ref Source | Ref Date |
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| King, N.; "Wings over the Goldfields". | Hesperian Press. | 1992 | |
| Webb M; "Golden Destiny: The Centenary History of Kalgoorlie-Boulder and the Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia". p. 688, 689-690 | City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder | 1993 |
Individual Building or Group
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| Original Use | HEALTH | Office or Administration Bldg |
| Present Use | HEALTH | Office or Administration Bldg |
| Type | General | Specific |
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| Wall | ASBESTOS | Fibrous Cement, flat |
| Wall | TIMBER | Weatherboard |
| Roof | METAL | Corrugated Iron |
| General | Specific |
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| OCCUPATIONS | Commercial & service industries |
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