Richard Greaves (prospector)

[3] He joined the Victoria Police, where his commanding presence and physical attributes made him an ideal recruit, but here again his interest in rifle shooting was not nurtured.

[3] Due to ill-health caused by mining, Greaves became the caretaker of James Street State School.

He died in the caretaker's quarters at the James Street school on 17 March 1916 and was buried at Karrakatta Cemetery in grave Baptist AA 160A.

[1][2][4][5][6][7] Just after arriving in Perth Greaves was shown a rock owned by William Lawrence, who thought it was copper.

[14] In 1906 Greaves published a book called The Golden West,[15] which detailed the experiences of prospecting for gold and the people who were there.

In it he noted that Anstey was rewarded for finding gold by the Western Australian Colonial Government, and would never had found anything without the support of Payne and himself.