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Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1930

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Football Jack Hore Gold Cup Lost by Canowindra for Second Time in Three Years. Temora Win Thrilling Game by 26 to 7

Cowra Free Press · Tuesday 10 June 1930 · page 2

On Sunday all roads led to Canowindra when the largest crowd ever seen on that ground assembled to see the local team…

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Big Football. Temora Wins Gold Cup. Wizard Weissel

Western Champion · Thursday 12 June 1930 · page 13

Canowindra, on a beautiful June afternoon, with just a nip of Winter in the air, and in the mind a keen anticipation of a great game, for were…

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C.W.A. Blue and Gold Ball

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 13 June 1930 · page 4

At the last meeting of the members' of the local branch of the C.W.A. it was decided to ask the Council to plant trees in front of the new Rest…

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The Gold Cup Retained by Temora Orange Defeated

The West Wyalong Advocate · Tuesday 17 June 1930 · page 1

Following their victory over Canowindra on the previous Sunday for the Hoare Gold Cup Temora were immediately challenged by Orange, whose…

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Science Notes & News. Storing Coal in Water

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 18 June 1930 · page 4

The advantages of storing quantities of coal under water, where deterioration is much less than in the air, are appealing more and more strongly to…

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More Gold. Between Lucknow and Byng

Western Champion · Monday 23 June 1930 · page 2

It is reported that what appears to be a very important discovery of gold has been made on the prospecting area lately acquired by Mr. Abe…

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Alluvial Gold Mining Request to Department For Local Prospecting

The West Wyalong Advocate · Tuesday 24 June 1930 · page 1

In connection with the suggestion that the Government might devote a certain sum towards prospecting in this town and district, we are…

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Hore Gold Cup Temora Beats Coota By 26 to 12

The West Wyalong Advocate · Tuesday 24 June 1930 · page 2

About 4500 people witnessed the match at Temora on Sunday when Cootamundra came by special train to try and wrest the. Jack Hore…

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Forest Reefs. Good Mining Show

Western Champion · Thursday 26 June 1930 · page 14

Prospecting in Finneran's paddock at Forest Reefs continues to provide good reasons why the area should be thoroughly explored. Mr. D. O'Neill,…

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Gold Mining Is It a Defunct Industry ? Vast Areas of Auriferous Areas Untouched.no. 3: GRENFELL. (Continued from a previous issue)

Cowra Free Press · Friday 27 June 1930 · page 5

We will now step across via the Outward Bound, to the Homeward Bound, where there are two mines, one of which was controlled by Dick…

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Gold Cup Forbes Team Selected Cowra Hoax Report

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 27 June 1930 · page 8

An important meeting of the Forbes Rugby League Football Club was held on Tuesday night at the Albion Hotel, when…

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Broken Hill Miners Miners Refuse Reduction (By Wire) Sydney, Monday Evening

The West Wyalong Advocate · Tuesday 1 July 1930 · page 1

The Workers' industrial Union, at a meeting at Broken Hill, decided not to entertain the proposal of three mining companies that the men should…

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£100,000 Saving on Rail Coal

The West Wyalong Advocate · Tuesday 1 July 1930 · page 2

Prices for the supply of approximately 1,000,000 tons of northern coal to the Railway Department Indicate a saving of more than £10,000 on prices…

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Forb[?]efeated Temora Holds Gold Cup

The West Wyalong Advocate · Tuesday 1 July 1930 · page 2

A strong team from Forbes visited Temora on Sunday in quest of the now famous Jack Hore Gold Cup. Forbes were confident of success, a…

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Getting It Back Our Coal Trade (By Wire) Sydney, Thursday Afternoon

The West Wyalong Advocate · Friday 4 July 1930 · page 1

According to Mr. McDonald, Chairman of the Northern Colleries Association, there is ample evidence that New South Wales will get back all…

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MINERS'MEETING Direction of District Officers (By Wire) Sydney, Monday Afternoon

The West Wyalong Advocate · Tuesday 8 July 1930 · page 1

Miners' lodges held meetings through out the South Coast district yesterday and unanimously carried resolutions directing the district officers to…

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Gold-studded Horseshoe

Western Champion · Thursday 10 July 1930 · page 5

Last week, Mr. C. Cormaek, of Redbridge, in the Harden district, was digging up a grape vine which had never borne fruit, intending to…

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News of the Western District Mining Move. Lucknow Inspection

Western Champion · Thursday 10 July 1930 · page 5

A party of mining men who had returned but a day or so before from the Jervois Ranges, Central Australia, made an inspection of Lucknow…

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Horseshoe Studded with Gold. Found at Redbridge. Chinese Who Raced Horses with Golden Shoes

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Thursday 10 July 1930 · page 1

How many of the horses at the Murrumburrah Winter Meeting ever raced with horse shoes studded with gold? writes the Harden "Express."…

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Australia's Gold

The West Wyalong Advocate · Friday 11 July 1930 · page 1

In all, over £630,000,000 worth of gold has been won in Australia to date but the yield for last year was worth under £2,000,000 and it is still…

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