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Mid North Coast · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1934

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Developing the Country. Dairying and Grazing. Tourist Possibilities. Gold Bearing Country

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 2 March 1934 · page 4

It should be the aim and the desire of every progressive resident in Australia to see all centres of this country fully developed. After the same…

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"Back to Wyalong Goldfields" Week. March 7 to 14, 1934. Invitation to Ex-Residents

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 2 March 1934 · page 1

"Back to Wyalong Goldfields" Week will be celebrated from Wednesday, 7th March, to Wednesday, March 14 (inclusive). The date will synchronise…

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Mining at Commonwealth Creek

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 20 March 1934 · page 2

Commonwealth Creek, which a short while ago did not have a single permanent resident, has now a population of about 45 persons. This…

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Current Topics. Anstralian Price of Gold

The Gloucester Advocate · Thursday 29 March 1934 · page 2

The price fixed by the Commonwealth Bank for gold, including jewellery, lodged at the Melbourne Mint, for the week ended March 23,…

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GOLD Practical Advantages of the Rise

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 6 April 1934 · page 1

Newspaper headlines told us recently that the sovereign, after hovering round the 38-shilling mark, had at last passed the two pound…

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Gold Shipments Transporting of Bullion Station Crowds Hoaxed

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 6 April 1934 · page 4

While detectives and armed watchers kept a strict vigil over a few boxes of bullion destined for America, the real treasure, worth over…

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Japanese Miners Saved. Tokia, 9434

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 10 April 1934 · page 4

Rescuers saved all of the 130 miners who were entombed in the Fukushima colliery following a gas explosion. They were trapped behind a…

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Current Topics. Copeland Mines, N.i

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 10 April 1934 · page 2

The above company, operating the. Southern Cross and Bridge & Newton's mines at Craven Creek, invite tenders in this issue for the…

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Miners Trapped Sydney

The Northern Champion · Saturday 14 April 1934 · page 5

Two miners, Michael Rosetti (32) and George Davies (45), were trapped in a long tunnel at Dalesford Italian Hill mine (Victoria) following, a fall of…

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Gold Is Still Best for Teeth

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 14 April 1934 · page 7

Despite periodical promises of artificial materials that will supplant them, gold and gold alloys are still best for fillings and other dental work,…

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Cream and Gold Wedding. BURNARD--RUPRECHT

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 14 April 1934 · page 6

A very pretty wedding, in,Which b great deal of interest was centred, took place att the Methodist Church, Taree, at 5.30:p.m. on Easter Sutarday…

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Alluvial Gold Finds After Heavy Rain

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 17 April 1934 · page 2

Hundreds of men, women, and boys are busily engaged in searching for gold in Kalgoorlie. After the heavy rains had washed away…

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Australian Price of Gold. Batsman Recalled

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 20 April 1934 · page 2

The price fixed by the Commonwealth Bank for gold, including jewellery, lodged at the Melbourne Mint, for the week ended April 14, During a match between N.S.W. and Victoria in Sydney, Woodfull recalled the N.S.W. batsman, Fingleton, who was given out by the…

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"On the Quartz." Gold Lease at Bullahdelah

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 20 April 1934 · page 4

John Rhone, a miner, of Aberdare, made application before the Mining Warden (Mr. A. N. Graham) at the Warden's Court, held at the East…

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Pirate Gold Reported Discovery in the Pacific

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 20 April 1934 · page 1

In regard to the cable message published last week that a group of treasure-hunters were reported to have discovered more than £10,000,…

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Gold Prospectors. To the Editor "Wingham Chronicle."

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 20 April 1934 · page 7

Sir,—I trust these few lines will prove of some service to prospectors who may read "The Wingham Chronicle." It is well known by all diggers that there…

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Sensational Musical Comedy at Mayfair. "Gold Diggers" Sets New Standard in Musical Films

Macleay Argus · Friday 20 April 1934 · page 6

A new type of musical film; that is what has been created by Director Mervyn LeRoy in the Warner Bros.' production of "Gold Diggers of 1933,"…

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(New Gold Lawn Mower

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 21 April 1934 · page 4

The committee of the local Gold Club reversed its decision in regard to the purchase of a motor lawn mover for the greens, and has now…

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Australian Price of Gold

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 27 April 1934 · page 2

The price fixed by the Commonwealth Bank for gold, including jewellery, lodged at the Melbourne Mint, foe the week ended April 21,…

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At the Victoria. the Power and the Glory" and "Walls of Gold."

Macleay Argus · Friday 27 April 1934 · page 8

Occasionally a film flashes its way across the screen to prove, as well as one can prove such things, that the motion picture has begun to find…

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