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Kitty Malarvie |
 Kitten (also known as Kitty) was born at Halls Creek c. 1942, on the site of the old gold mine. She recalls seeing the alluvial gold glinting as the sun rose in the morning time. There was a big mob of people all digging with crowbars. My father worked there he was from Gordon Downs Station. Before we were at Halls Creek, my father was a stockman at Nicholson and lots of other stations in the area. He taught all those young boys like Jock Mosquito how to ride and handle horses. One time he drove Camel Trains for a while he said it took three weeks for a really short trip from Lake Gregory way to Balgo with those camels. Her Grandmothers country was Sturt Creek/Gordon Downs area and Kitten (really Kathleen and sometimes Kitty she says and laughs) paints this country as well as Halls Creek area. She and her three brothers moved to Ord River Station and it was there that Kitten commenced her working life. She was a camp cook, worked around the homestead until she returned to Halls Creek. She has one daughter and has raised a daughter for Peggy Patrick (Vanessa Gordon). Kitty has lived in Kununurra for 30 years she can relate stories in details of the development of the town. She has always worked, caring for white children for the people who first started the businesses in Kununurra. She is proud to say that, although she remembers the first pub in Kununurra being a little shed, she has never been a drinker. Kittys works include dot-art, sketching, wonderful paintings of the Halls Creek Crater a very talented lady. Her father taught her to paint when she was very small he would carve coolamons and other wooden artefacts and Kitty would paint them up for him. |
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