Biography

Mr Pollard was manager of the Oroya Black Range gold mine. He came out some years earlier and was at different times underground manager of the Lake View Consols, Perseverance, and South Kalgurli mines. Subsequently, he went as manager at the Oroya Brownhill and afterwards took charge at the White Feather Main Reef. He had been manager of the Oroya Black Range for the previous six years and his sudden and unexpected death was expected to be widely mourned throughout the Westralian goldfields. William Pollard was well-known and highly respected as a mine superintendent at both Kalgoorlie and Sandstone for Bewick, Moreing & Co., a position he held from 1903 to 1911. Pollard had spent 26 years in the United States of America before arriving in Western Australia. The illness which led to his death had been serious for 5 days prior to his death. The deceased is buried in the Methodist portion of the cemetery, plot number 7. He left an estate of £784 18s. 11d to his wife, Mary Jane Pollard, also a native of Cornwall, England.