George W. Hall, newspaper man and Goldfields entrepreneur in \nWales and Australia
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Abstract
Most studies of the Welsh abroad have concentrated on their immigrant communities, and the social and work activities in those communities. In contrast,this thesis presents a case study of a Welsh entrepreneur, bridging the worlds of \nWales in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and Australia at the turn of the century. It thus provides an examination of a trans-national figure, whose activities in \nnewspapers and in gold mining make a contribution to the historiographies both of daily newspapers in Wales during that period, and of the role of newspapers in chronicling gold mining in Western Australia. \n \nIt examines George W. Hall, the subject of the case study, in the context of the newspaper and political world in South Wales, as well as Welsh gold-mining history, \nand also considers his contribution to Western Australian gold-mining and social history, particularly the development of the north-eastern parts of that state’s Eastern Goldfields. The key role of Alexander Wilson Castle in Hall’s activities in Western Australia is highlighted. It deals extensively with the role of W. Pritchard Morgan, \nLiberal MP and gold mine speculator in Wales and Australia, whose activities were inextricably bound up with Hall’s. It further sets Morgan and Hall within the context of London-based speculative investment in mining at this time, and considers their place in the widening field of international investment in mining, including China and Korea.It re-evaluates the importance of the roles played by Hall and others, notably Herbert C. Hoover, in the development of one of Western Australia’s longest-lasting \ngold mines, the Sons of Gwalia, and also considers Hall’s part in developing one of the largest northerly gold deposits of the period, at Wiluna.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.011 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".