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Issue Details: First known date: 1969... 1969 Hustler's Gold
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'The great Victorian gold mining city of Bendigo during the 1890s is the setting for Hustler's Gold.

'Although the story is fiction it takes place against the background of a real-life mining company of the time, The Hustler. This company operated several mines on Hustler's Reef which runs through the centre of the city. Gold smuggling on the reef was common, and it is man's greed for gold which is the keynote of Pat Spencer's story.

'Albert ("Fatty") Parker and his best friend Jim Heggarty, become involved in a series of unusual events during the school holidays after Albert has a chance encounter with a scarred man while fossicking for gold. When Albert's gold dust is stolen he is determined to track down the thief. Danger and excitement grow as the boys try to discover the secret behind the mysterious activities of "Scarface" and "Long Shanks".' (Dust jacket)

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Australiana, Fiction Eve Pownall , 1970 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : New Books for Boys and Girls , September no. 37 1970; (p. 39-44)

— Review of Chinaman's Reef is Ours Ivan Southall , 1970 single work novel ; House By the Water Nance Donkin , 1969 single work children's fiction ; The Haunted Night Joan Phipson , 1970 single work children's fiction ; A Taste for Blue Ribbons Eugene Lumbers , 1969 single work novel ; Hustler's Gold Pat Spencer , 1969 single work children's fiction ; The Mischievous Crow : Stories of the Aborigines 1969 anthology prose ; Let's Call Him Blinky Bill Carol Odell , 1970 single work children's fiction ; Wild Colonial Boys : Ned Kelly Frank Clune , 1970 single work biography ; The Zoopie Zats Helen Hughes , 1969 single work poetry
Australiana, Fiction Eve Pownall , 1970 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : New Books for Boys and Girls , September no. 37 1970; (p. 39-44)

— Review of Chinaman's Reef is Ours Ivan Southall , 1970 single work novel ; House By the Water Nance Donkin , 1969 single work children's fiction ; The Haunted Night Joan Phipson , 1970 single work children's fiction ; A Taste for Blue Ribbons Eugene Lumbers , 1969 single work novel ; Hustler's Gold Pat Spencer , 1969 single work children's fiction ; The Mischievous Crow : Stories of the Aborigines 1969 anthology prose ; Let's Call Him Blinky Bill Carol Odell , 1970 single work children's fiction ; Wild Colonial Boys : Ned Kelly Frank Clune , 1970 single work biography ; The Zoopie Zats Helen Hughes , 1969 single work poetry
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