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Mining & the mines, 1937

8 stories in Blue Mountains's papers

Caulfield Futurity Stakes. High-class Field This Year This Will Be the Test of Gold Rod's Superiority

The Katoomba Daily · Saturday 20 February 1937 · page 4

The high weight who came home best of all in the Oak leigh Plate at Caulfield oil Saturday, was Regular Bachelor. He was last when the field had gone a furlong, but at the end he was right oil top of the placed horses in fifth place…

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Gold Rod Will Meet Weight-for-age Talent at Warwick Farm Is Cup Favourite Silver Standard Ready for the Sound Test at Warwick Farm? Caulfield Winner Mitsui Is in the Doncaster Sydney

The Katoomba Daily · Friday 19 March 1937 · page 4

There will be a somewhat different twist to the Chipping Norton Plate, Sydney's next weight-for-age race, if Gold Rod contests it. And…

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Government Assistance to Re-absorb Unemployed Miners

The Katoomba Daily · Thursday 15 April 1937 · page 3

Capital assistance from Commonwealth and State Governments to the extetn of half a million pounds, a complete remission of all excise…

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Took Railway Coal

The Blue Mountains Times · Friday 20 August 1937 · page 2

The Commissioner for Railways proceeded against John Law, for trespassing upon railway property, at the Court of Petty Sessions, last…

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Gold Business Will It Profit Us ? Only One Answer

The Blue Mountains Times · Friday 20 August 1937 · page 1

Whatever may be the views of the aldermen on the outlay of money to remodel Katoomba's Town Hall, there seems to be little doubt about the…

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Bad Luce to End Sold Mine Worth £150,000 For £8

The Katoomba Daily · Saturday 9 October 1937 · page 3

"No Luck" Standley, who, for £8, sold a mine at Tennant Creek that is now worth £150,000, has died in the Darwin Hospital within…

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Record Golf Meeting Nearly 200 Players Compete at Gold Cup Meeting Teams Event Won by a Katoomba Team

The Katoomba Daily · Thursday 25 November 1937 · page 4

The fifth annual open Meeting under the auspices of the Katoomba Golf Club was an outstanding success, the large…

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"Rifts In The Clouds". Gold (Prosperity) and Gout

The Katoomba Daily · Tuesday 7 December 1937 · page 4

Says a recent cable from England, in the "S.M. Herald": "Govt has reappeared in Britain close on the heels of returned prosperity,…

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