Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
It is an urban myth that O'connor the Chief engineer who designed the movement of water from Mundaring to Coolgardie and subquently Kalgoorlie, suicided because the water came late through the pipeline. What actually happened is he was harassed by the media and put through 3 Royal Commissions to explain his expenditure of public moneys that he finally had had enough He suicided at Fremantle where there is a statue to his memory. The water coming through was 8 mo...