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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1933

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Claude Bridges Gold Cup Coff's Harbor v. Kempsey. Coff's Harbor

Daily Examiner · Friday 15 September 1933 · page 2

Fresh from their victory over South Grafton last week-end, the Coff's Harbor Cup team are now confident that the Claude Bridges Gold Cup will remain at…

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U.S. CONDITIONS Scenes Of Wholesale Violence Prompts Presidential Intervention 50,000 Miners Walk Out Credit Inflation Programme Washington

Daily Examiner · Saturday 16 September 1933 · page 5

A recurrence of wholesale violence in the Pennyslvania coalfields to-day where 16, including a Deputy-Sheriff, were shot and more or less seriously wounded, prompted President Roosevelt to intervene in person in the code negotiations…

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Clarence River Historical Society The Selwyn Letters Meeting with Discoverer of Gold Ordination and Arrival at Grafton (No. 41) the Selwyn Letters

Daily Examiner · Saturday 16 September 1933 · page 2

The Historical Society is indebted to J. A. Ferguson, Esq., barrister at law, for the loan of his copy of the Selwyn letters. This volume is bound in half morocco…

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Bridges Gold Cup Coff's Harbor V. Kempsey Holders Retain Trophy. Coff's Harbor

Daily Examiner · Monday 18 September 1933 · page 1

Playing with 12 men in the second half Kempsey led Coff's Harbor by 11 points to three, 20 minutes before the final whistle in the hard and strenuous…

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Queensland's Gold Yield

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 19 September 1933 · page 4

Due chiefly to production at Mt. Morgan and Mt. Collon, the State gold yield for the eight months shows a big increase over she same period last year. The amount o[?]…

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Gold Cup Stays Coffs Defeat Kempsey

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 19 September 1933 · page 4

In one of the hardest and most thrilling matches of the season, Coffs Cup Team added to their wonderful record on the Jetty Oval on Sunday,…

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Record Price Gold £6119 Per Ounce. London

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 19 September 1933 · page 5

Gold was quoted at the record price of £6119 per ounce to-day and the dollar, in relation to sterling, reached 4.7½, the highest level for some time…

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Gold at Drake

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 20 September 1933 · page 4

It has been stated on reliable authority that an official assay of o[?]e from the reef of Gough's Gully mine, Drake, owned by Mr. F. West, at the 50 feet level, revealed…

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Stability of Sterling Effect on Gold Countries. London

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 20 September 1933 · page 5

"The Financial Times" states if the dollar maintains its degree of stability at or around the present level, and sterling also maintained its present…

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Football Gold Cup Match Coff's Harbor's Great Final Effort. Coff's Harbor

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 20 September 1933 · page 1

With characteristic last-minute scoring efforts Coff's Harbor pulled the match for the Gold Cup out of the fire against Kempsey at the Jetty Oval yesterday…

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FOOTBALL Gold Cup Match

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 22 September 1933 · page 1

We take the following extracts from the "Macleay Chronicle's" report of the Gold Cup match at Coils Harbour last Sunday:—…

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A Big Contract U.S. Coal Workers 340,000 Coal Diggers Involved Washington

Daily Examiner · Saturday 23 September 1933 · page 5

Seven weeks' negotiations between the United Mine Workers of America and the bituminous coal operators on the Appalachian field were brought to a close…

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Fire in Mine May Last a Week Cobar

Daily Examiner · Thursday 28 September 1933 · page 5

Dense clouds of choking smoke fumes are continually enveloping the township as the fire, which commenced in the Great Cobar copper mine yesterday, still rages…

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'Return to Gold' Devaluation of the Dollar New U.S.A. Proposal. New York

Daily Examiner · Thursday 28 September 1933 · page 5

"The Times' Washington representative states the devaluation of gold content of the dollar and its stabilisation with the pound and other currencies are…

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Hoarding Gold First Case in America. New York

Daily Examiner · Friday 29 September 1933 · page 5

The first gold hoarding indictment in the United States was Secured to-day when the Federal Attorney-General heard a charge brought against Frederick…

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Traces of Gold

Daily Examiner · Saturday 30 September 1933 · page 4

A mild sensation was caused at Clarence Town when it became known that men employed on a roadmaking job near the Maitland road, had found some small…

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Bottle of Gold Paid His Insurance Premium

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 4 October 1933 · page 8

A surprise was received by the A.M.P. Society recently when a small bottle of gold was delivered in the mail from a country member in payment of his…

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Reign of Terror In U.S. Mining Area National Guard Troops Called Many People Wounded. Harrisburg (Illinois)

Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 October 1933 · page 5

National Guard troops were ordered to Southern Illinois to-day, after a day and night of terror in the coal mine striking areas, where a score or…

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Record Price of Gold. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 10 October 1933 · page 5

The Commonwealth Bank to-day offered £7107 an ounce for standard gold, equivalent to £843 per ounce line. This is…

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Stolen Ore Guards to Be Placed at Mines. Perth

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 11 October 1933 · page 5

Allegations that they had stolen gold ore from a reef hundreds of feet below the surface of a mine near Kalgoorlie were made yesterday, when three men were…

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