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

Mining & the mines, 1938

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From Everywhere Goldfields' Month

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 3 January 1938 · page 2

At a meeting held recently in Kalgoorlie discussion centred on the holding of a "Goldfields Month" in com-memoration of the forty-fifth…

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Murder of Transport Driver No Gold Carried On The Truck Inquest Continues

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 5 January 1938 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Wednesday: The movements of John Thomas Demsey, the transport driver who disappeared while driving a loaded…

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Another Week Off Miners in the North

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 6 January 1938 · page 8

SYDNEY, Thursday: When the whistle blew on the northern coalfields yesterday announcing work for to-day miners of seven collieries…

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New Guinea Rich Undeveloped Goldfields Explorer Back

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 10 January 1938 · page 7

BRISBANE, Monday: New Guinea has rich undeveloped goldfields, but savage natives. stand in the way of getting to…

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BLACK-OUT Bellbird Colliery Strike

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 17 January 1938 · page 6

NEWCASTLE, Monday: The township of Bellbird, which had its electric light and power cut off on Friday as the result of a strike of…

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Mining Fatality at Frogmore

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 20 January 1938 · page 2

Bertie Sedgman, manager of the Wolfram mine, Frogmore, was fatally injured on Monday when a belt which he was putting on a machine almost…

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Gold Rush for Young Carnival

The Burrowa News · Friday 21 January 1938 · page 10

Professional and business men, shop assistants, and relief workers will take part in an organised search for gold which has been announced…

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Accident at Frogmore Mines Man Dies From Injuries Leg of Trousers Caught in Revolving Machinery

The Burrowa News · Friday 21 January 1938 · page 2

Not long after the men commenced work at the Phoenix Woolfram Mines Ltd. at Frogmore on Monday, a shocking…

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The Lure of Gold Junction Point Rush Recalled Ups And Downs of Discoverer

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 26 January 1938 · page 6

Many oldtimers in the Crookwell district will fremember the gold rush that took place at Junction Point. The rich…

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10 Men Killed in Mine

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 31 January 1938 · page 5

LONDON, Sunday: Ten men were suffocated in a fire in the Dumrec colliery, at Kilsyth. A miner gave his life in a vain effort to warn his mates…

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Frogmore Mine Accident. Coroner Holds Inquest on the Late Bertie Sedgman

The Burrowa News · Friday 4 February 1938 · page 4

At the Court House, Boorowa, on Monday last, the District Coroner held as inquest on the late Bertie Sedgman, who died in the District Hospital from injuries received in an accident at the pheonix welfrer Mine at Frogmore on the Januray. The…

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Gold on Black and Brown

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 2 March 1938 · page 3

Gold kid embroideries and the new high waistline are featured in a frock of black alpaca weave. Mapie brown crepe was used for the well-cut frock on the right. The bodice is shirred and the unusual accklace is attached and has a bangle to match. Both these…

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Miners Find New Jobs

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 4 March 1938 · page 4

More than 500 miners: have left the pits and the slag heaps of South Wales in the last three years…

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Revival of Two Days Racing Proves Great Success Record Number Of Horses Compete At Most Successful Picnics M.L.A. Wins Ravensworth Gold Cup: Visitors Attend Gay Festivities

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 21 March 1938 · page 1

Despite the prolonged dry spell and the ravages of the grasshopper invasion, t h e first two days’ race meeting…

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When Gold Was Found in Goulburn Precious Metal Once Lay Near St. Saviour's

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 24 March 1938 · page 15

As this year of grace 1938 marks the 87th anniversary of the discovery of gold in Australia, a word or so in regard to that event and it relation to the County if Argyle and the Goulburn district will not be out of place…

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Yass Picnic Races. Revival of Two Days' Racing Proves Great Success. Record Number of Horses Compete at Most Successful Picnics M.L.A. Wins Ravensworth Gold Cup: Many Visitors Attend Gay Festivities

The Burrowa News · Friday 25 March 1938 · page 8

Despite the prolonged dry spell and the ravages of the grasshopper invasion, the first two days race meeting held…

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Experts Laughed But Natives Found The Gold Windhoek, (S. Africa)

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 5 April 1938 · page 5

Expert geologists and competent mining engineers examined a claim in the Rehoboth district owned by two coloured men, and were…

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What Gold Can Do Romance of a City

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 12 April 1938 · page 3

The enormous work that goes on behind the scenes toward modernising Johannesburg is revealed in the annual report of…

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Fast Trial Gold Rod Fit

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 19 April 1938 · page 8

Gold Rod did another amazingly fast trial at Randwick yesterday morning—six furlongs in 1.13 from a standing start…

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Gold Mine As School

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 6 May 1938 · page 1

Purchase of a gold mine in Northern Quebec for use as a school of practical training for young miners has been announced…

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