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Murray · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1931

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Northern Miners' Committee Pass Interesting Resolutions. SYDNEY, Friday Noon

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 24 July 1931 · page 2

The Northern Management Committee of the Miners' Federation has decided in favour of a State Parliament of union leaders…

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Claim for Wages Tin Mining Case

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 July 1931 · page 35

At the Albury District Court George Langdowne sued Sydney Gordon Maclure, John Gordon Bunyan, to and Alfred Bishop Bunyan, to recover…

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Important Gold Reef. a Reported Find. SYDNEY. Friday. Noon

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 24 July 1931 · page 2

One of the greatest gold finds in recent years is reported from Tennant's Creek, Central Australia, where it is stated assays yielded from 4 to 24…

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The Bank Rate Increased. To Check Gold Exports. LONDON

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 24 July 1931 · page 3

The Bank of England discount rate has been increased from 2½ to 3½ per cent. This step has been taken to prevent…

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The Gold Holdings. France Increasing Her Stock

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 28 July 1931 · page 3

The Bank of England reports the despatch of £5,260,000 worth of bar gold to France…

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The Garden Gold Dust Shrub

The Pastoral Times · Friday 31 July 1931 · page 4

This week’s article deals with the importance of having a massed effect in flower beds the quaint lily with the climbing habit some more information…

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Freight on Coal New Business May Be Lost

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 31 July 1931 · page 8

Although, the Northern Collieries Association has not yet decided on an increase in the price of coal as a result of the abolition of concession…

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Late Cable News Flight of Gold Action by Britain Stems Flow to France London, July 27

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 31 July 1931 · page 7

Britain's success in stemming the flow of gold from the Bank of England has excited, the admiration of French financiers, who admit that…

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Solomon's Mines

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 August 1931 · page 28

It has remained for a group of women archaeologists to discover what science believes are the lost mines of King Solomon…

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Valuable Gold Nugget Found

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 August 1931 · page 16

A gold nugget weighing between 60 and 70 oz. has been found in the Whipstick, at Neilbo-rough (Vic.), by a fossicker, Leslie John Roberts, who…

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Cyanide for Mining

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 August 1931 · page 9

The Postmaster-General (Mr. Green) stated that he had interviewed the Prime Minister (Mr. Scullin) and, the Commissioner for Taxation (Mr…

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What About the Gold Stawdard

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 August 1931 · page 15

AUSTRALIA with her handful of people and her tiny gold reserve is in the same financial plight as America with 120,000,000 people and…

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Coal for Railways £100,000 Not Paid

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 August 1931 · page 34

Consternation, was caused among contractors supplying coal to N.S.W. Railway Department by failure of the Government to meet monthly accounts…

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Gold Loan Alleged Offer of £15,000,000 Prime Minister's Statement

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 August 1931 · page 10

The Prime Minister (Mr. Scullin), in the House of Representatives, disclosed the results of investigations that the Government had made regarding…

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Gold at Gundagai

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 August 1931 · page 6

Seventy ounces of gold a fortnight has been the average output from Long Tunnel mine, although the last fortnight's work at the mine consisted…

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Gold Near Moss Vale

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 August 1931 · page 34

Mrs. R. B. Knight (an old subscriber to the "Banner"), of Wilde's Meadow, Moss Vale, writes:—"On our property, one mile from Belmore Falls, there is…

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Length of Coal Should be [?] in Proportion to Body :: On Keeping the Trouser Effect

The Independent · Friday 21 August 1931 · page 7

IT is a terrible thing to see what could be a decorative fashion being mutilated in a wholesale manner by women who, in a year from now, will look…

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Coal While You Wait. Science Scores

The Berrigan Advocate · Wednesday 26 August 1931 · page 1

Scientists have discovered how to make in their laboratories, in a few hours, quantities of coal which it has taken nature hundreds of…

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State Mine at Lithgow. Closed Down Following Strike. SYDNEY

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 28 August 1931 · page 3

The Railway Commissioners decided yesterday, to close down the State mine at Lithgow, because the employees have gone on strike, and not to…

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Gold in United States Worth £998,600,000 Washington, August 22

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 28 August 1931 · page 35

The board of the Federal Resorve Bank reported to-day that stocks of gold in the United States amounted to 4.983,000,000 dollars (about £966…

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