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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1930

9 stories in Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond)'s papers

The Coal Strike Chifley Criticises Miners

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 1

SPEAKING at a meeting of the thurst Labor League, Mr. J. B. Chifley, M.P. for Macquarie, said be regretted that the miners had not…

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Major Philip Charley From Jackaroo to Mining Heir His Discovery of Silver Chlorides Romantic Career of Hawkesbury Show President

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 16 May 1930 · page 11

"OUR Jubilee Show just concluded I think I may justly describe in three words—The Best Ever," said Major Philip Charley in a review of the position on Saturday. "The number of exhibits and the quality have been more and finer than we have ever had in the history of the Association, and the…

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Land of Mine

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 13 June 1930 · page 5

Oh Land of mine, thy haunting spell Is from the Sun, thy golden King. There is no grief it cannot quell, There is no hour I cannot sing…

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Fruit of Gold

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 20 June 1930 · page 6

Pleasant 'tis to summon up Happy memories, Scenes and songs from out the past, Such as long ago I knew…

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Best Australian Novel the T. E. Rofe Gold Medal

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 20 June 1930 · page 5

In order, to further the cause of Australian writers and literature, the Henry Lawson Society of, Sydney will present a gold medal to the value of £5/5/- to the writer…

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Three Gold Discoveries

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 22 August 1930 · page 12

It is a curious fact that between February 12 and 15 fall the anniversaries of the first authenticated discovery .of gold in Australia, and of two important rediscoveries…

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Martin Frobisher's Gold Rush

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 19 September 1930 · page 9

Frobisher Bay on the south-east coast of Baffin Island, was the scene of North America's first gold rush. In the barque, Gabriel, Frobisher explored…

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Rich Find Gold Nugget Worth £500 Former Windsor Resident's Luck

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 3 October 1930 · page 8

HAS the famous gold lode at Lucknow, near Orange, which was "lost" after yielding lucky diggers over £8,000,000, been discovered…

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The World's Slump In Prices the Cause, the Remedy and the Way Out the Substitute for Gold (Continued)

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 10 October 1930 · page 5

IT is desirable for all parties concerned to have a stable medium of exchange or limit of value. The unthinking might suppose that the large accumulation of gold in…

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