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transportation. Using simple spades, hoes or their bare hands they uprooted local vegetation and grass to make way for crops and houses. Superintendents often mistreated the convicts and there were reports of 7 or 8 persons per day dying on the job from overwork, malnutrition, heat stroke, the cold and possibly lack of sleep etc. Sometimes workers would die on the way to the hospital or while waiting in line for their meal. Living conditions included crowded quarters such as up to 18 people living in a small hut. They often didnât have blankets, beds, eating utensils or warm clothes for winter months.
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bag over from Seven Hills on horseback each day. By 1922 the number of residents and businesses had grown sufficiently to support a second office in a weatherboard cottage in
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Australian history for both the original inhabitants and the new settlers. This area was chosen because of the location on the meeting of two waterways, Toongabbie Creek and Quarry Creek. The Aboriginal inhabitants were consulted and the
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