Mine-shaft Murder In- Quiries Fruitless Melbourne
This week there has been an intensification of the inquiries which police have been making for the past year into the murder of a middle-aged man…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mining & the mines, 1939
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Romancer of Chiltern in the Early Mining Days
The romantic story of the discovery of gold in Australia and the desperate rush of gold-mad men to seek the precious yellow metal with towns mushrooming and then disappearing in their wake, finds an echo in these…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Gold Price Reaches a New High Level London, Jan. 3
Still another all-time high record for gold was reached to-day, when quotation per fine ounce was £7 10/5, a rise of 4½d compared with yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Would Be Costly Holidays for Coal Miners Award Claims in Court Sydney
A hint that if there was agreement by both parties he might be able to move in making a more comprehensive award for the coal mining industry…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Gold Act
Important alterations which have been made in the regulations for the purchase and sale of gold, as a result of the recent passing of the Gold…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire at Top of Colliery Cessnock
A fire this afternoon destroyed portion of the pit top structure of the Elrington Colliery near Cessnock, which is owned by the B. H. P. Co. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners and Eton College Boys at Football Match
Unemployed miners, who were the guests of Eton College boys watching football match with two of their hosts…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Amusements “Gold Diggers in Paris” at Hoyts To-day
Hoyts Theatre will be the scene of the opening of “Gold Diggers in Paris,” in Albury to-day. The latest and most elaborate of the Warner Bros…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dissension Among Unionists Stevedores Resent Picketing Coal for the Dalfram Sydney
Protesting against the picketing of the homes of foreman.. stevedores by waterside workers, Mr. J. Lundberg, secretary of the Sydney Foreman…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →All That Litters Can be Gold Why Not in Australia As In Other Countries?
A Nottingham waste merchant who died recently left an estate valued at £209,305. Which proves that one man's waste is another's fortune…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →“Tell Men the Truth” Miners’ Conditions in N.S.W. Man’s Outburst in Court Sydney
“I am annoyed to think that you will not tell members of the Miners Federation the truth. If you told the truth you would tell the men that they…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Price of Gold London, January 7
Gold is quoted to-day at £7 8/9½ per fine ounce compared with £7 9/6 yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Amusements “Gold Diggers in Paris,” at Hoyts
The “Gold Diggers” are again bringing with them a record number of laughs, hit tunes and beautiful girls in “Gold Diggers in Paris,” which…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Huge Sale of Gold £200 Million Involved Britain’s Financial Strength London, January 6
A laconic announcement posted on the Bank of England notice board stating that the Bank had sold £[?] worth of gold…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Amusements Last Night of “Gold Diggers in Paris” at Hoyts
“Gold Diggers in Paris,” starring Rudy Vallee, ends its run at Hoyts tonight Almost rivalling in importance the return of America’s prince…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Studying the Habits of Gold Fish
These three lads, Bill Cahill (left). Fred and Ronnie Res, were intrigued by the gold fish in the pond at the Botanic Gardens. They were all agreed that there are more fish at the gardens than in the Murray River…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →After Two Years Body in Mine Shaft. Farmer Gives Information. Melbourne
The finding of a man’s body in an abandoned mine shaft at Wedderburn two years ago, which baffled the police despite intensive investigations,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Stole From Mint Gold Watch Chain Recovered. Youth Treated Leniently. Melbourne
An employe of the Royal Mint, who it was alleged had stolen gold watch chains from the melting house and had later attempted to sell them, was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Miners “Silly Goats” Judge Repeats Remark Counsel Protests Against Stoppages of Work Sydney
Stoppages to-day at all but one colliery on the South Coast and hold-ups at several mines in the north, caused counsel for the colliery proprietors,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners Sympathise with Watersiders One-Day Strike Declared Torrid Time for Mr. Menzies Sydney
Stating that they were totally opposed to shipping pig-iron [?] Japan or the application of “dogcollar” licences at Port Kembla…
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