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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1934

302 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 6 of 16

Slag Matte Stolen From Q'sland Mine Gold Worth £1000 Suspect Arrested in Sydney. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 19 April 1934 · page 5

Alleged to have stolen a slag matte valued at £1000 from Mount Coolon gold mines, Queensland, George Reece, 26, show promoter, was…

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Blue and Gold Supper Dance

Daily Examiner · Thursday 19 April 1934 · page 4

The C.W.A. Younger's Set's Blue and Gold Supper Dance at the Criterion Hall last night was a huge success. Over 150 couples attended and enjoyed a delight…

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£115 Damages Verdict Against Miners' Federation. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 20 April 1934 · page 7

A verdict for £115 was returned by the jury to-day, in the case before Mr. Justice Halse Rogers, in the Supreme Court, in which Joseph Martin, Sen. miner,…

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Blue and Gold Dance

Daily Examiner · Saturday 21 April 1934 · page 4

Unsold tickets and proceeds in connection with the Blue and Gold Dance, conducted by the Grafton C.W.A. Younger Set, are to be collected at a special…

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147 CORPSES Taken From Wrecked Mine Serajevo Horror Night Scene at Pithead. Belgrade

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 24 April 1934 · page 5

Women, relatives and children spent a night of suspense at the pithead of Kekanj colliery, near Serajevo, singing death songs, as 147…

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Graves Desecrated 200 Dead Dug Up and Decapitated Ghouls Take Gold From Teeth. Mexico City

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 24 April 1934 · page 5

Police in Merida, State of Yucatan, announced the discovery to-day of a series of horrible, revolting crimes committed by an organised gang of ghouls…

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Two Miners Dead Fall of Earth in Mine. Broken Hill

Daily Examiner · Friday 27 April 1934 · page 6

While working in the Zinc CorporAtion mine last night Richard Gers, 45 and Harold Orchard both married were overwhelmed by a fall of earth. There…

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Brave Miners Explosion at Bendigo. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 2 May 1934 · page 3

Extreme bravery was displayed by a group of miners in the new Red, White and Blue mine at Bendigo. One of their number was injured in one of his legs…

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Oil From Coal Experiments at Newcastle Government Report. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 2 May 1934 · page 7

The Minister for Mines, Mr. Vincent, to-day made public the report of the committee appointed by the Government to investigate the report on the coal…

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Mining Shares Boom on Sydney Exchange. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 3 May 1934 · page 5

The greatest turnover in mining shares since Sydney Stock Exchange was formed occurred ,this morning, many thousands of shares changing hands…

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Old Hiligrove. Memories of Gold Days Revived Newspaper Voice of the Past When the Mining Exchange Was Busy

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 4 May 1934 · page 4

Visitors to Hillgrove these days see only the beauties of gorge country, but there was a time when a busy mining township, with its stores,…

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Gold in Fowl's Gizzard. Dorrigo

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 8 May 1934 · page 4

Two years, ago Mr. Arnold Kilgour, a farrer, killed a goose. In its gizzard was found a nugget of gold about as big as a…

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Grafton Police Court Stole Gold Fountain Pen Plea of Guilty to Several Charges

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 8 May 1934 · page 2

Before Mr. S. J. Bliss, P.M., at the Graf ton Police Court yesterday, Henry Neale, aged 53, pleaded guilty to charges of having in his possession a woohen…

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Eighty Miners Doomed. Munich

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 9 May 1934 · page 5

Though many escaped. 80 miners were entrapped when a short circuit caused by the collapsing of a pit prop breaking…

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Dead Heat Geelong Gold Cup. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Thursday 10 May 1934 · page 2

The Geelong Gold Cup resulted:—Viol d'Amour £10, (IT. Badger) and Highway 8.4 (S. Bell-Chambers) dead heat for first, Thrawn 7.5 (W. Stirling)…

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Gold Prospecting Unemployment Scheme in W.A. PERTH

Daily Examiner · Thursday 10 May 1934 · page 2

The gold prospecting scheme for relief of unemployment resulted in £25,000 worth of gold being won in West Australia since the scheme was introduced,…

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Stolen Coal

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 11 May 1934 · page 2

Six strangers were fined £2 or four days' gaol at Taree Police Court this week on charges of having coal in their possession reasonably…

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Gold in Fowl's Gizzard

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 11 May 1934 · page 5

About two years ago Mr. Arnold Kilgour, of Upper Whisky Creek, killed a goose and in its gizzard a nugget of sold about as big as a pea was…

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Gold Bars Missing From Indian Mail Train. Calcutta

Daily Examiner · Saturday 12 May 1934 · page 5

A consignment of gold bars, valued at nearly £8500 sterling, mysteriously disappeared in transit from Amritsar to Bombay by frontier mail train…

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Gold Clause in Mortgages to Be Eliminated. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 12 May 1934 · page 5

Legislation to abrogate the gold clause in mortgages will probably be introduced in the State Parliament shortly, as the result of the extraordinary legal position…

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