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Mid North Coast · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1917

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Beautiful Ballarat. the History of the Past. The Pre-"Gold Pastoral Period—1837" 1850

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 7 February 1917 · page 4

THROUGH the kindness of Mr. Thos Dickson, of Wingham, who has recently been on a holiday visit to Victoria, we have received a neatly…

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Labor Shortage. Miners Offered 17/- Per Shift. Broken Hill

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 14 February 1917 · page 2

The Broken Hill mining companies are again complaining of the shortage of men, especially since the re-opening for production of the…

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Beautiful Ballarat. the History of the Past. the Pre-gold Pastoral Period 1837-1850. ARTICLE 2

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 14 February 1917 · page 4

"The smaller discoveries made in the [?]emy of New South Wales a few months before had already started emigrants towards Australia. They had…

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Labor. Richmond Main Colliery. Newcastle

The Northern Champion · Saturday 17 February 1917 · page 3

At to-day's sitting of the Federal Coal Board Mr. Justice Edmunds said be understood that the Richmond Main Lodge had agreed to resume…

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Beautiful Ballarat. the History of the Past. the Pre-gold Pastoral Period 1837-1850. ARTICLE 3

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 17 February 1917 · page 2

Ballarat, including the City, the Town or Ballarat East, the Borough of Sebastopol, and environs, embraces a population of about 50,000 people. It was…

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Beautiful Ballarat. the History of the Past, the Pre-gold Pastoral Period 1837-1850. ARTICLE 4. Lake Wendouree

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 23 February 1917 · page 2

In the early days, what is now known as the far-famed water in Australia, was known as Yuille's swamp. With the formation of…

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"Old Gold and Silver War Fund." a Reminder

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 28 February 1917 · page 6

One of our recent editions contained an appeal by the committee of this fund, asking for gold and silver articles of any and every…

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Beautiful Ballarat. the History of the Past. the Pre-gold Pastoral Period 1837-1850. ARTICLE 5. Mines and Mining

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 2 March 1917 · page 2

Sixty-five years ago the whole of the Ballarat district, so far as the white population was concerned, was occupied only by a few squatters and…

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Gas Coal for Motors

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 2 March 1917 · page 3

Attempts are being made to employ illuminating gas for internal combustion engines, the gas being compressed in tubes at a high pressure and…

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The Coal Shortage Mr. Hughes Explains

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 7 March 1917 · page 6

In the House of Representatives, Mr. Watkins, Federal member for Newcastle, referring to a statement made by the Prime Minister to the…

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Coal Beneath the Waves

The Northern Champion · Saturday 10 March 1917 · page 2

There is a certain fascination surrounding buried cities but there is a sepse of loss, too, in the knowledge that some of our richet products lie buried in the ocean's depaths…

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France Changes Gold Rule

The Northern Champion · Saturday 24 March 1917 · page 7

Travellers bringing gold into France have been surprised and annoyed to find on leaving that they cannot take the gold that they have remaining out of France. The law…

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Children's Corner. W[?]czka's Salt Mines

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 28 March 1917 · page 2

Every world traveller knows that some of the greatest wonders of art and nature lie altogether out of the beaten track aof nigh[?]s. And no…

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Mining Accident. Narrow Escape

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 30 March 1917 · page 4

On Wednesday afternoon about 5 o'clock an accident happened at the Nambucca Co's Molybdenite mine Warrell Creek. One of the…

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Hands Off Gold Stripes

The Northern Champion · Saturday 7 April 1917 · page 7

The vertical gold stripe on some of the new coats worn by women is bringing an honourable decoration into contempt."—"Lady's Pictorial."…

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Bullets of Gold. Explorer Discovers an Arctic Eldorado

The Northern Champion · Saturday 14 April 1917 · page 2

Mr. Christian Leden, a young Swedish explorer, commissioned by the University of Norway at Christiania, has returned to New York, after three years in the Arctic,…

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Buried Treasure Found by Youths. Diamonds, Emeralds, Rubies and Gold

The Northern Champion · Saturday 21 April 1917 · page 2

Treasure of enormous value has been unearthed by two youths named Lorenzo Gonzalez and Inocente Barrial at Mala Habitacion, near Havana…

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War Gold: Some South African Romances

The Northern Champion · Saturday 26 May 1917 · page 2

Since the earliest days of mankind, Africa has been the land of surprises. In the words of Pliny—more or less—"Ex Africa semper aliquid novi"—Africa always turns up with…

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A New and Deadly Mine

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 16 June 1917 · page 2

The mine as an instrument of destruction has been used by the Germans in a manner consistent with her disregard of ,laws and…

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Mining Warden's Court

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 22 June 1917 · page 4

Mr. Sutherland introduced to the Chamber of Commerce members on Monday the matter of having a Mining Warden's Clerk appointed…

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