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Northern Rivers · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1933

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Liquid Fuel From Coal Success of British Enterprise

Northern Star · Monday 13 February 1933 · page 3

In view of recent efforts to finance the restarting of operations on the Newnes Shale-Oil Field (N.S.W.) on which a sum of…

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Government Fails As "Mine Host" Canberra

Northern Star · Tuesday 14 February 1933 · page 5

The Federal Government is conducting, negotiations with Tooth's Brewery, of Sydney, for leasing to that company of the Hotel…

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Two Miners Dead Melbourne

Northern Star · Wednesday 15 February 1933 · page 6

Albert Dunstan and Arthur Berger lost their lives at Buninyong mine today in tragic circumstances. Dunstan fell 70 feet to the bottom of a shaft,…

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Gold Standard World Return Urged New York

Northern Star · Wednesday 15 February 1933 · page 7

A call to the world to re-establish itself upon the gold standard as the only means of avoiding an "incipient outbreak of an economic war" was…

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Restore Gold Standard Only Way to Rebuild Confidence, Says Hoover

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 15 February 1933 · page 3

WASHINGTON, Monday:—President Hoover, in an address at Lincoln, declared the American people could well contend that most of the debtor…

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Three Brothers Asphyxiated Tragedy in Mine. Overcome by Poisonous Fumes

Tweed Daily · Thursday 16 February 1933 · page 5

AUCKLAND, Wednesday:--Three brothers were asphyxiated in a private mine at Hikurangi. They were James Ackers (24), a…

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Brothers Die One by One in Mine Poisonous Shaft Wellington (N.z.)

Northern Star · Thursday 16 February 1933 · page 7

Three brothers went one by one to their death in a shaft of a small coal mine at Hijurangi (North Auckland) to-day…

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West Australian Gold Find

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 17 February 1933 · page 1

Despite glowing reports of the big gold strikes at Wannaway, the mining community is withholding an opinion as to the probable permanence…

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Will U.s.a. Abandon Gold? Looks Possible

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 17 February 1933 · page 6

Ever since the depression started the leaders of American thought have been almost unanimous in declaring that U.S.A. must never abandon the gold…

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Killed on Mercy Errand Minister Falls Down Mine Shaft

Tweed Daily · Monday 20 February 1933 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Sunday:--Rev. H. Stanley Jarvis, Methodist minister at Kooringa, was killed on Saturday morning, when he fell 77 feet…

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£1000 for Gold Mining Sydney

Northern Star · Tuesday 21 February 1933 · page 2

The Unemployment Relief Council to-day decided to make a grant of £1000 to the Mines Department to place men on gold mining fields…

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Gold Export Big Figures Sydney

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 21 February 1933 · page 3

Official figures show that during the month of January gold worth £2,434,347 was exported from N.S.W…

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Light Thrown on Mystery Australian Gold Shipment

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 21 February 1933 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday: -- The mystery which surrounded the official attitude towards the inquiry concerning the recent…

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Mt. Isa Mines Resume

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 22 February 1933 · page 4

MOUNT ISA, Monday:--All departments of the Mount Isa Mines are again working in full swing. The week's recoveries to February 18 from…

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Coal Deadlock West Australian Parties in Conference

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 22 February 1933 · page 3

COLLIE (W.A.), Tuesday:--The coal dispute was advanced, another stage to-day when representatives of the unions and the Disputes…

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Coal From N.S.W. Ordered by W. Australia Perth

Northern Star · Wednesday 22 February 1933 · page 7

The decision of the Commissioner for Railways to import all coal for railway purposes from New South Wales will have a very serious effect…

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Coal Dispute West Australian Cabinet Discussion

Tweed Daily · Thursday 23 February 1933 · page 4

PERTH, Wednesday:--Cabinet met to-day to discuss the coal situation. The closest secrecy was preserved, but it is understood that Cabinet decided…

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Fire in Coal Bunkers Perth

Northern Star · Thursday 23 February 1933 · page 5

Limping towards Fremantle with a damaged propeller the steamer Helmsprey now has a fire in her eoal bunkers. It is not kown whether…

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Settlement Possible West Australian Coal Dispute

Tweed Daily · Friday 24 February 1933 · page 4

PERTH, Thursday:--It is considered the prospects of an early settlement of the dispute between the Commissioner for Railways and the Collie coal…

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Demand for Gold Australia Will Benefit

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 24 February 1933 · page 3

Sir J. W. Kirwan (president of the Legislative Council of Western Australia), in a speech at a luncheon in London, at which the Agent-General…

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