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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1937

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Mining Questions Prospector Loses on a Technicality

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 24 February 1937 · page 7

Mining questions occupied the greater part of last Thursday's monthly court sitting. Complaint was made by the Mining…

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Gold in Chocolates

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 25 February 1937 · page 1

CHRISTCIURCH, Thursday: A strange story of the alleged theft [?] gold was told in the Greymouth Magistrates' Court yesterday…

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Gendarmes Fire on Strikers Trouble at Hungarian Mine

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 25 February 1937 · page 5

BUDAPEST, Wednesday: Gendarmes killed two and wounded three when they fired a volley into a group of miners and women,…

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Important Lease at Marulan Application for Cancellation Mining Warden's Decision and Comments

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 25 February 1937 · page 1

Following the hearing of evidence and cross-examinations which lasted for more than three hours, an application for the cancellation of a mining lease, held by Metropolitan Products, Ltd., in the parish of Marulan, was…

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Strikes a Mine British Vessel In Danger

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 26 February 1937 · page 7

MARSEILLES, Thursday: The steamer Llandovery Castle, en route to Marseilles from Gibraltar, with 300 passengers, struck a mine off'…

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Stay-in Strike Swansea Miners In a Pit

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 26 February 1937 · page 7

Thirty-one miners started a stay-in strike this morning by barricading themselves in the North Woollahra mine…

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Gold Rod's Plucky Win In Essendon Stakes at Flemington Cuddle's Imwrovement

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 1 March 1937 · page 8

Gold Rod was responsible for a plucky performance to win the Essendon-Stakes on Saturday. Forcing his way out of a pocket a little more…

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Mines Investigation Not Complete Questions In House

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 2 March 1937 · page 5

LONDON, Monday: Replying to questions in the House of Commons regarding the damage to the Llandovery Castle last week when it was…

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Free Labour To be Called For Dudley Mine Men Now Out

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 2 March 1937 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Tuesday: Labour was called today for Dudley Colliery a pit controlled by the Dudley Coal Co., Ltd…

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Captain's Flat Mining Starts There

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 4 March 1937 · page 5

Captain's Flat is all excitement with the news that steps have been taken to commence mining the metal…

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Eight Months on a Sea Raider German Mine-Layer Sailed Round The World

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 5 March 1937 · page 3

Few of us realise that during the war a German minelayer escaped through the blockade, travelled round the world, hovered round Australia and New Zealand, sinking ships and laying mines off our coast, and then returned to…

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From Everywhere Gold At Yalwal

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 8 March 1937 · page 4

Mr. Pincombe brought an ingot of refined gold, weighing 42 ounces, to Nowra yesterday from his lease at Yalwal. He estimated that it would…

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Coal in Papua

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 9 March 1937 · page 4

CANBERRA, Tuesday: Discoveries of coal by patrols that have penetrated into little-known parts of Papua are referred to in the annual…

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Coal Adviser

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 10 March 1937 · page 7

Mr. Frank Hodges, who has made himself directly responsible to Sir George Gillett, Commissioner for the Special Areas, for all questions…

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The Roaring Days Of Lambing Flat When White Miners Expelled Chinese From Field

The Burrowa News · Friday 12 March 1937 · page 6

Most people have a vague sort of idea that things were lively at Lambing Flat in the golden days, but very few really know the actual facts of…

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Battle for Madrid Mine Blown Up Hand-to-hand Fighting Crisis at Hand

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 12 March 1937 · page 6

LONDON, Thursday: Foreign journalists in Madrid were allowed to-day to photograph captured Italians…

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Naked Light Mine Inquest In Wonthaggi Tragedy Inspector' Sevidence

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 18 March 1937 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Thursday: When the inquest concerning the Wonthaggi tragedy was resumed to-day, an inspector of the Mines Department,…

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New Railway Bungendore To Captain’s Flat Lake George Mining Revival

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 18 March 1937 · page 2

Under an agreement which the State Government decided to make with the Lake George Mining Corporation Limited, of…

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Racing Notes Gold Rod Will Meet the Weight for Age Talent at Warwick Farm Is Cup Favorite Silver Standard Ready for the Sound Test at Warwick Farm on Saturday? Caulfield Winner Mitsui Is in the Doncaster

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 18 March 1937 · page 1

There will be a somewhat different twist to the Chipping Norton Plate, Sydney's next weight for age race if Gold Rod contests it. And…

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Lake George Big Mining Corporation Floated in London

The Burrowa News · Friday 19 March 1937 · page 1

Lake George Mining Corporation, Limited, has been incorporated in London, with a capital of £1,110,000, to finance the equipment of the Lake…

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