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Mid North Coast · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1936

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Dig Gold to Bury Again. Vaults Choked. London, July 11

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 8 August 1936 · page 3

Britain is holding more gold than she has ever held in her history. The Bank of England now has in its vaults £224,000,000 of gold. A year ago its…

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Dig Gold to Bury Again. Vaults Choked

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 11 August 1936 · page 3

Britain is holding more gold than she has ever held in her history. The Bank of England now has in its vaults £224,000,000 of gold. A year…

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Rector's Wife Leads Women. Coal Dispute

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 12 August 1936 · page 1

Mrs. Reay Campbell, wife of the An gliean lector of Cessnock, undertook on Thursday afternoon to lead coalfields women in the campaign against…

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Leisure Hour Reading. His Genius All Pure Gold

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 12 August 1936 · page 6

Of all great writers since Scott, Dickens is probably the man to whom the world owes most gratitude. No other has added so much mirth to the…

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Miners in Peril Grim Fight with Flames

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 18 August 1936 · page 4

Thirty miners working in Llay Hall Colliery, Wales, recently were suddenly shocked into realisation that "something was wrong" in the pit…

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Well Done, Dorrigo. Bridge Gold Cup Copped

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 18 August 1936 · page 5

At Coff's Harbor on Sunday last the Dorrigo Cup team defeated the Coff's Harbor Cup team in a challenge match for the Claude Bridge…

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Australian Price of Gold

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 21 August 1936 · page 3

The price fixed by the Commonwealth Bank for gold, including jewellery, lodged at the Melbourne Mint for the week ended August 7 is at the…

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C.w.a. Blue and Gold Dance

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Saturday 22 August 1936 · page 7

The blue and gold dance of the Taree branch of the C.W.A. took place in the Belmore Hall, Taree, on Tuesday night, proving a very nice…

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Turf Three Year Olds Who Abe Not As Good As Two Year Olds As Suggested by Their Form Omarere and Connotar Lad Let Down the Form with Moorefield Failure Gold Rod's Chance at His First New Season Start

The Northern Champion · Saturday 22 August 1936 · page 7

Sydney's supposed crack winter two year old Omarere badly let down the winter form when he failed to get nearer than third in the first division…

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Australia's Gold Mining "King." De Bernales Tells of "Success in Business." Happiness in Fighting. London, July 18, (By Air Mail)

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 25 August 1936 · page 3

Mr. Claude de Bernales, who once borrowed £70 to go to Australia and now controls companies there with £7,000,000 capital gave London his…

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"Hidden Gold" and "A Man's Game." at Victoria and Adelphi

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 25 August 1936 · page 5

Although he likes ships and water as much as the next fellow, Tom Mix revised the nautical adage to "join the army and see the world."…

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Famous Gold Nuggets The World's Finest Specimens

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 29 August 1936 · page 7

There is no foundation for the Russian claim that the nugget of 443¼ ozs. recently dug up in the Urals is the largest ever found…

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Abolishing Coal Miner

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 2 September 1936 · page 2

Russian experiments pointing to the practicability of exploiting on a commercial scale insuitably situated collieries, the long-discussed system of…

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The Miners. Support Their Delegates. Against A.l.p. Executive

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 2 September 1936 · page 2

Aggregate meetings at miners on Sunday at Cessnock, West Wallsend, and Kurri Kurri. after hearing addresses by representatives of both…

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Football. Kempsey Cup Team Off to Dorrigo. After the Gold Cup

Macleay Argus · Friday 4 September 1936 · page 4

During the week-end the Kempsey Cup team will trip to Dorrigo and engage, the team at that centre in a challenge match for the Claude…

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Oil From Coal. "No Serious Technical Difficulties." Sir David Rivett Enthusiastic

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

"Australia undoubtedly possesses admirable raw materials for both the hydrogenation and Fischer oil-from-coal processes, and no serious…

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Turf the Stewards Right to Change a Jockey on a Fancied Race Candidate. Gave Eider His Apprentice Permit for Races and then Denied Him First Talking, The Freak, Gold Rod, and Osculum in their Great Warwick Farm Form

The Northern Champion · Saturday 5 September 1936 · page 2

Dick Wootton regards The Freak as an Epsom proposition, and a few weeks ago he tried to., engage Billy Cook for the horse in the big mile event at…

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Sphere of Sport. Football. Dorrigo Defeats Kempsey. in Gold Cup Challenge

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 8 September 1936 · page 5

During the week-end the Kempsey Cup team and a good number of admirers journeyed to Dorrigo per motor bus and engaged the local…

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Amazing Gold Reef

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 9 September 1936 · page 2

Wednesday last Canberra news reported that gold production in Australia in July amounted to 104,645 fine ounces and was valued at £896,943 in…

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Turf Shakespeare Is Gold Rod's Most Dangerous Opponent. at Last a Good Staying 3-Year-old McGRATH'S Stable on Wrong Horse

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 23 September 1936 · page 3

All three year old form so far this season points to Shakespeare as the most likely to extend Gold Rod at the end of the Derby. Mala ran the…

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