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Central Coast · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1923

8 stories in Central Coast's papers

Miners' Motor Cars

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 29 March 1923 · page 14

The Sydney "Telegraph" of 26th March, 1923, refers to the fact that the coal miners of Cessnock—a town of [?]7,000 people—own their motor cars,…

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Convicts and Coal

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 5 April 1923 · page 20

How fugitive convicts played an important part in the early settlement of New South Wales was stressed by Mr. K. R. Cramp, in a lecture on "The…

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Thousand-mile Belt of Gold. Bush to "The Band" of the Future

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 12 July 1923 · page 4

Thousands of prospectors will start on a great gold hunt in Canada this month. Their patron saint is Benny Hollinger. Benny borrowed £25…

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Gold Discovery. Historic Spot

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 16 August 1923 · page 3

The Department of Mines, to mark the site of the first discovery of payable gold in Australia, proposes to erect an obelisk at Ophir, near Orange…

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Mining Verse. the Valley of Long Ago

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 30 August 1923 · page 2

Deserted lie the olden dumps, And the mining camps are shorn Of the wild and eager rushings, Where our fever first was born…

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Bellbird Colliery Disaster Disaster

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 13 September 1923 · page 2

Speaking to the Premier's motion of sympathy on the adjournment of the House in connection with the Bellbird Colliery Disaster, Mr. W. F. O'Hearn…

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Mother O'mine

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 20 December 1923 · page 18

Mr. Noel Harris, local footwear specialist, has issued a pretty little calendar for 1924, entitled "Mother O.'Mine," a color photo study from…

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Across the Comment. From East To West. Gosford to Perth (West Australia) and Back. No. 5 (Continued from last issue.) the Mining Industry

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 20 December 1923 · page 8

The first gold rush in Western Australia occurred in the year 1886, and strangely enough was in the most remote portion of the State, namely the…

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