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Northern Rivers · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1933

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GOLD £779 Oz. Record Price Sydney

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 5 September 1933 · page 2

The Commonwealth Bank has fixed the price for gold at £779 a standard ounce of 22 carrats, equal to £8- 12 ounce fine. This is the highest…

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Railway Coal Orders Accepted SYDNEY

Northern Star · Friday 8 September 1933 · page 6

The Railway Department's coal supplies for the 12 months ending September next year were decided upon to-day. Sixteen collieries share in…

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New Gold Find Alice Springs Deserted

Tweed Daily · Friday 8 September 1933 · page 5

ADELAIDE, Thursday.--A message from Alice Springs states that the town was almost deserted to-day, every available motor car and truck having left…

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Gold Standard Essential to World Progress LONDON

Northern Star · Saturday 9 September 1933 · page 8

Professor J. H. Jones, Professor of Economics and head of the commerce department of the University of Leeds, addressing the British…

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£5Oo Worth of Gold Relief Workers in Luck

Tweed Daily · Saturday 9 September 1933 · page 8

BRISBANE, Friday:--While engaged under the Government's scheme of relief work for miners, two men at Charters Towers last…

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Old Gold Soaring Prices

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 12 September 1933 · page 2

Attracted by the soaring price of gold, Mr. and Mrs. Brisbane, and even little Miss Brisbane, have in the last week or so been uncovering that…

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"Wholesale Beach Mining" Objection Urged Byron Shire Engineer's Report

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 13 September 1933 · page 3

The Mines Department asked Byron Shire Council's opinion at last meeting about the leasing of beaches for mining puporses. The…

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10,000 Miners Idle General Stoppage Planned

Tweed Daily · Thursday 14 September 1933 · page 3

NEW YORK, Tuesday.--The veiled hints of the President of the American Federation of Labor about serious strikes find an echo in unrest throughout the…

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Council Protest Mining Leases on Beaches

Northern Star · Thursday 14 September 1933 · page 5

An objection to the wholesale leasing of beaches for mining purposes will be made by Byron Shire Council to the Mines…

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Strong Objections to Mining Leases. on Pacific Beaches

Mullumbimby Star · Thursday 14 September 1933 · page 2

Mr. M. Smith, Engineer of the By on Shire, submitted a special report on connection with an application to case Ocean Beach, parishes…

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Starving in Mines Austrian Colliers on Strike

Tweed Daily · Friday 15 September 1933 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday:--The "Guardian's" Vienna correspondent says that 2,500 West Styrian miners who struck work on September 8 are remaining underground without ventilation, as the hoists are idle, almost without food. Many have been compelled to come to the…

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France Determined Remain on Gold Standard

Tweed Daily · Friday 15 September 1933 · page 5

PARIS, Thursday:--M. Sere (Minister for Commerce), in an important speech, proclaimed the Government's determination to remain on the gold…

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Paying the Premium. a Phial of Gold

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 15 September 1933 · page 1

The head office of the A.M.P. Society in Sydney recently received the following letter: "Since you notified me some months…

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Pinnacles Gold Find Optimistic Report Big Prices Offered for Claims

Tweed Daily · Friday 15 September 1933 · page 4

DARWIN, Thursday:--In a report on the gold discovery in the Pinnacles, near Tennant's Creek, the Chief Mining Warden and Director…

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France Will Remain on Gold Standard Budgetary Adjustment PARIS

Northern Star · Friday 15 September 1933 · page 8

The Minister for Commerce, in an important speech today, proclaimed the Government's determination to remain on the gold…

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Queensland's Gold Yield

Northern Star · Saturday 16 September 1933 · page 12

Due chiefly to product-ion at Mt. Morgan and Mt. Collon, the State gold yield for the eight months shows a big increase over the same period last year…

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14 Wounded in Clash Striking Miners and Police

Tweed Daily · Saturday 16 September 1933 · page 5

UNION TOWN (Pennsylvania), Thursday:--Following a decision by the miners' union to declare a strike from to-day until the codes…

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Inflation Demanded U.S. Congress Leaders Threaten Mr. Roosevelt Striking Miners in Ugly Mood

Tweed Daily · Saturday 16 September 1933 · page 5

WASHINGTON, Thursday.--A peremptory demand for inflation made by the leaders of both Houses of Congress is the first sign of revolt to-day against President Roosevelt's action in delaying a move…

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Equipose Beaten Jockey Club Gold Cup

Tweed Daily · Monday 18 September 1933 · page 3

NEW YORK, Saturday:--Equipose was defeated in the two-mile Jockey Club Gold Cup race over a muddy track at Belmont Park. Dark Secret, ow[?]…

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Mining Dispute Ended Washington

Northern Star · Monday 18 September 1933 · page 5

Peace in the two-months-old soft coal mining dispute was assured to-night when the United Mine Workers of America and the operators of the…

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