Death Roll 79 Queensland Cyclone Missing Boats and Crews Wreckage at Enterprise Mine. Brisbane
Daily Examiner · Saturday 17 March 1934 · page 4
The latest death roll as a result of the cyclone in Northern Queensland shows a total of 79. The list of boats lost, and the number…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Prospectors' Plight Shortage of Food and Water Deplorable Conditions on Goldfields. Brisbane
Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 March 1934 · page 5
Men who are seeking gold at Tennant's Creek are living under deplorable conditions. There is a lack of food and water and the ordinary comforts of life, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners' Levy to Assist Wonthaggi Strikers. Sydney
Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 March 1934 · page 7
The council of the Miners Federation to-day decided to impose a 2½ per cent. levy on all members of the Federation to assist the Wonthaggi miners who are on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →'Fond Delusion'. Revival Of Coast Trade Miners Must Lock. Elsewhere. Oil Supplementing Coal. Cessnock
Daily Examiner · Saturday 24 March 1934 · page 5
It is no use cherishing the "fond delusion" that there will be a revival fo the coal industry, declared the Commonwealth Minister in Charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hundreds Dead. Over 90,000 Homeless Gale Spreads Fire Everywhere. Thousands Gold and Hungry. Tokio
Daily Examiner · Saturday 24 March 1934 · page 5
An official announcement by the Home Office regarding the Hakodate fire states that '650 were burnt to death and died in emergency…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miner Killed Crushed Under Fall of Coal. Newcastle
Daily Examiner · Tuesday 27 March 1934 · page 7
While working at the John Darling colliery to-day, John Cartwright, 28, of Belmont, was over wh lmed by a fall of coal and killed. Some hours elapsed before the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →C.w.a. Blue and Gold Show Night Dance
Daily Examiner · Friday 30 March 1934 · page 4
The Grafton C.W.A. Younger Set members are doing everything possible to repeat the same excellent results with their blue and gold dance on the night of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →C.w.a. Blue and Gold Dance
Daily Examiner · Wednesday 4 April 1934 · page 4
The members of the Grafton C.W.A. Younger Set now have arrangements well in hand for their blue and gold dance which takes place on the night of the first…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Petrol From Coal Wore on Tees-side Plant Begun
Daily Examiner · Wednesday 4 April 1934 · page 1
Work has now begun on the erection of the plant which is to produce oil and petrol (gasoline) from coal at the Billingham-on-Tees (England) works of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →C.w.a. Blue and Gold Dance
Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 April 1934 · page 4
An engagement which should prove a popular attraction during the coming Grafton Show Week is the blue and gold dunce to be conducted by the Grafton…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mineral Production Highest Gold Yield Since 1921 SYDNEY
Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 April 1934 · page 5
Mineral production of New South Wales for 1933 was valued at £8,082,063, an increase of £768,067, compared with the previous year. Increases are shown in gold…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Colliery Explosion in Japan Scores of Miners Entombed Feverish Work of Rescue. Tokio
Daily Examiner · Tuesday 10 April 1934 · page 5
Between fifty and a hundred miners are entombed in the Fukushima colliery, near Fukushima city, following a gas explosion…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gold at Wedding
Daily Examiner · Tuesday 10 April 1934 · page 4
Gold was the predominating color at the wedding of Miss Penelope Portman (a cousin of Lord Portman) and Captain Archer Clive, at the Guards' Chapel,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Colliery Disaster in Japan All Entombed Men Saved. Tokio
Daily Examiner · Wednesday 11 April 1934 · page 5
Rescuers saved all of the 130 miners who were entombed in the Fukushima colliery. Following a gas explosion, they were trapped behind a raging furnace. Nine…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mine Rescue Work Organisation Neglected? Sydney
Daily Examiner · Friday 13 April 1934 · page 5
Allegations that the organisation of mine rescue work in all districts is in a parlous state and wholesale deaths would follow any explosion or serious fire in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gold Shipments. Transporting of Bullion Station Crowds Hoaxed
The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 13 April 1934 · page 3
While detectives and armed watchers kept a strict vigil over a few boxes of bullion destined for America, the heal treasure, worth over £1,000,000…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Pirate Gold Buried Treasure £10,000,000 in Ingots Successful Treasure Hunters. Montreal
Daily Examiner · Friday 13 April 1934 · page 5
An Associated Press dispatch from Tahiti states that a group of treasure hunters, tracing a reputedly enormous cache of pirate gold…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Blue and Gold Social C.w.a. Younger Set
Daily Examiner · Saturday 14 April 1934 · page 4
One of the features of Show week, especially to the social section of Grafton and district, will be the C.W.A. Younger Set's grand "Blue and Gold"…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Queensland Gold Yield. Brisbane
Daily Examiner · Monday 16 April 1934 · page 1
The Queensland gold yield for March was 11,307 fine ounces, worth £50,153. compared with 4758 ounces, worth £20,211. in March, 1933. For the March quarter,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Show Night Dance C.w.a. Blue and Gold Social
Daily Examiner · Tuesday 17 April 1934 · page 4
To-morrow night, the Grafton C.W.A. Younger Set will hold their popular annual Blue and Gold Social, in the Criterion Hall. This function has established itself…
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