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Mid North Coast · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1936

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Unded-secretary for Mines

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 2 June 1936 · page 2

Mr. A. N. Graham will succeed Mr. F. S. Mance, who retired last week from the position of Under-Secretary to the Department of Mines. Mr…

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Football Cup Match. Poet Lifts Scahill Gold Cup by 8 TO 4

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 3 June 1936 · page 3

The big cup game on Saturday was a very hard one and the better wide won, though there was not much in the gante. Taree's bad handling at times…

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Port Lifts Scahill Gold Cup by 8 to 4 in Hard Game

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 3 June 1936 · page 4

The big cup game on Saturday was a very hard one and the better side won, although there was not much in the game. Taree's bad handling at…

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Bad Old Days. Miners Whipped to Work

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 5 June 1936 · page 4

The following is clipped from the South African Engineers' Union Journal": "The use of whips in mines is recalled…

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Gold Discoveries

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 6 June 1936 · page 6

Naturally, it was many years before any marked progress was manifested, Sixty years passed before Western Australia experienced that sensational…

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Football. Port Lifts Scahill Gold Cup by 8 to 4 in Hard Game

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 6 June 1936 · page 5

The big cup game on Saturday was a very hard one and the better side won, although there was hot much in the game. Taree's bad handling…

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Gold Discoveries

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 12 June 1936 · page 1

Naturally it was many years before any marked progress was manifested. Sixty years passed before Western Australia experienced that sensational…

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Tales of the Gold Rushes I. the Oban River Rush and Kookabookra

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 12 June 1936 · page 1

The writer is not old enough to have been on the first rushes to the above localities, although within ,recent years he has prospected and…

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The Mining Industry in New South Wales

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 19 June 1936 · page 4

Performance does not fully or even adequately interpret precept; but this nothwithstanding, facts in relating to mining indicate that both by…

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Tales of the Gold Rushes the Oban River and Kookabookra (Continued)

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 19 June 1936 · page 1

When the best alluvial gold claims on the Oban River became worked out a party of about 40 Chinese found and worked a small though rich…

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Sphere of Sport. the Turf. C.r.j.c. Gold Cup Meeting

Macleay Argus · Friday 19 June 1936 · page 12

Horse owners and trainers are reminded that entries for the Ramornie, and C.R.J.C. Handicaps and Grafton Cup close at 5 p.m. Monday next, 22nd…

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Light Poles Destroyed Leading to Rothbury Collieries Sydney

The Northern Champion · Saturday 20 June 1936 · page 4

Four electric light poles on a line carrying current to the small non-federation coolieries on Rothbury Estate, near Branxton, were blown up…

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Tales of the Gold Rushes "Old Kookabookra." (Continued)

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 23 June 1936 · page 3

The site of the old, and now deserted, mining township of Kookabookra lies in the picturesque valley, 36 miles to the south-east of Glen Innes…

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Recruits for Mines

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 24 June 1936 · page 7

Johannesburg news says that negotiations are in progress between the Union and the Portuguese Government for an amendment of the…

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Rich Yield Tennant's Creek Gold. £50,000 Offer Refused

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 26 June 1936 · page 2

It is reported from Tennant's Creek, that William Weaber recently crushed two rich lots of stone. The first lot produced 287oz. of gold from…

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Deep Wells and Mines

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 27 June 1936 · page 7

We hear a great deal about the enormous heights to which aeroplanes and balloons have soared, but not so much about the depths to which man…

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Football. Scahill Gold Cup. and Curtain Raiser

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 27 June 1936 · page 5

The Wauchope and Port Macquarie 9 stone 8 lbs. limit teams played a curtain raiser to the big game at West Port Park last Saturday…

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Kempsey Police Court. Before Mr. D. R. M. Parker, J.P., 25th June, 1936. Theft of a Gold Chain

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 1 July 1936 · page 1

Patrick O'Dea, 64, owner of several aliases, was charged with, stealing portion of a gold chain and an opener from the person of Norman Hocking…

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Tales of the Gold Rushes the West Australian Rushes of the 'Nineties

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 3 July 1936 · page 1

Space would not permit of a description of the many dozens of gold rushes that emanated from such centres as Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie to…

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Gold Boom. Prosperity of South Africa

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 4 July 1936 · page 5

Because of her rich gold mines South Africa is so prosperous that she does not know what to do with her money, said Mr. J. M. Rae. a…

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