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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1931

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Better for Australia Gold Standard Suspension. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Friday 25 September 1931 · page 5

Mr. E. T. Crutchley, representative in Australia for the British Government, says the passing of the Gold Standard Suspension Act by the Imperial…

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Ellis Gold Mine Syndicate Takes Over. Dorrigo

Daily Examiner · Saturday 26 September 1931 · page 6

The famous Ellis gold mine has been taken over by a syndicate at a price said to be verging on the £2000 mark. Operations have been commenced in…

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More Money For Primary Products "It's an Ill Wind" Suspension of Gold Standard. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 26 September 1931 · page 5

Mr. A. K. Trethowan, M.L.C., declared this morning that practically every sheep in Australia to-day is fat and the market is absorbing thirty per cent more than…

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Concrete Preferred to Gold

Daily Examiner · Monday 28 September 1931 · page 4

The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, in Moscow, is being pulled down to make [?]com for a colossal Soviet Palace, which will cover the site, not only of the…

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Coal Bill Miners Demand Withdrawal Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 29 September 1931 · page 3

A conference of Miners' Lodges at Weston strongly condemned the Coal Industry Bill, by which the State Government proposes to reorganise the New…

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Upper Orara Mine. Good Progress Made

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 29 September 1931 · page 2

Messrs. J. McCann and party have made excellent progress with their gold mine at "Garryowen," Upper Orara. They haw a battery erected on…

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Gold Standard. Exports and Interest

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 29 September 1931 · page 4

Prices for our wool, wheat and metals have risen considerably on the London market. That is one of the results of. Great Britain's departure…

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Gold Is Rich. Big Lucknow Boom

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 29 September 1931 · page 1

Evidence of sensational values in the recent gold discoveries in the Bismarck Range gold mine at Lucknow. was disclosed at the week-end…

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Off Gold Standard Norway and Sweden. London

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 29 September 1931 · page 5

Norway and Sweden have suspended the gold standard. The London "Daily Telegraph's" city editor states that now Norway and…

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Burden Relieved Gold Drop Helps Us Australia's Obligations Effort to Hold Exchange Rates C' Wealth Statistician's Views. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 29 September 1931 · page 5

The Acting Commonwealth Statistician, Professor Giblin, stated today that the abandonment of the gold standard by Britain would relieve a…

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Struck by Stone Fatality at Valla Mines. Bellingen

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 30 September 1931 · page 4

While working on the hundred and forty feet level at Valla gold and arsenic mines to-day a man named Stanley James Freeman was struck on the head with a piece…

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Denmark Off Gold Basis Norway Bank Governor's Statement. Oslo

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 30 September 1931 · page 5

The Governor of the Bank of Norway denies the suspension of the gold standard was due to difficulty in continuing on a gold basis. The British decision created…

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Coal Industry Northern Miners' Output Increases. Newcastle

Daily Examiner · Thursday 1 October 1931 · page 5

During September a total of 283,000 tons of coal was taken from the mines of the northern field, representing an increase of 50,000 tons as compared with…

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Gold Supply Franco-american Hoard Sixty Per Cent. of Total. London

Daily Examiner · Thursday 1 October 1931 · page 5

Replying to question in the House of [?]mons Mr. Snowdon said on September 9 the total monetary gold in the United was one thousand million sterling…

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Gold in River Bed

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 2 October 1931 · page 2

A rise in the river as a result of the recent rains has caused the abandonment of the 1931 attack by the Burdekin Falls Gold Seeking…

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Local and General. Valla Mines Fatality

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 2 October 1931 · page 2

A workman named Stanley James Freeman was killed at Valla gold and arsenic mines on Tuesday. He was working at the 140ft. level when a…

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America Anxious Suspension of Gold Basis. London

Daily Examiner · Friday 2 October 1931 · page 5

The "Daily Telegraph's" diplomatic writer says despite persistent rumors that it is unlikely Germany will abandon the gold standard at present. Dr. Bruening…

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Nine Tons of Gold Carried by Six 'Planes. Paris

Daily Examiner · Friday 2 October 1931 · page 5

Six aeroplanes brought to Le Bourget nine tons of gold from Amsterdam valued at 150 million francs. Four more goldbearing aeroplanes are en route…

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Worth Over £6000. Appeared Destitute. Death in Mining Camp

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 2 October 1931 · page 2

Although believed to have assets in land and money in New South Wales and Queensland worth more than £6000, James McDonald (66), a…

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Gold Production Big Increase in Victoria. Canberra

Daily Examiner · Saturday 3 October 1931 · page 4

The Commonwealth Statistician's Department to-day issued figures showing the gold production for the first six months of 1931, which revealed that the yield in…

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