TERRITORY URANIUM BOOK UPDATE

Kiwi journalist/author Ross Annabell has expanded his book URANIUM HUNTERS which is about the NT uranium rush in the 1950s. Ross was a reporter in Darwin at the time and became involved in the uranium boom. In a move to have the fascinating book reissued, he has written an additional chapter about his involvement in the search for uranium by a flamboyant Canadian prospector on a sub-Antarctic island 16 years after leaving the Territory. An informative email to Little Darwin, from Ross , a former editor of the NT News and the Northern Standard , an ABC reporter and freelancer, says a cousin’s house in the earthquake shattered city of Christchurch has been wrecked and it is not sure if they can rebuild on a block near the Avon River because of liquefaction. Another relative's house is a write off and there was a 5.4 shake a few days ago. Christchurch has received more than 8000 shocks. Ross also said a former Centralian Advocate reporter, Max Avery, now living in retirement at Waihi Beach, northern end of Tauranga Harbour, NZ, is anxiously watching the oil spill from the container ship jammed on a reef in the Bay of Plenty. NOTE: Tragedy Track, a book written by another Kiwi journalist, the late Eric Baume, about the Tanami goldrush in the Depression, was recently reissued with photographs of current mining activity in the area, including the pouring of the one millionth ounce of gold. Annabell's expanded Uranium Hunters, filled with interesting Top End information about the uranium boom and its colourful characters, including personal information about the media in Darwin, would be a desirable listing for any enterprising publisher and would surely sell well .