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Northern Rivers · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1934

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Gold Mining Revival and Public Works Federal Policy for Re-employment

Tweed Daily · Thursday 29 November 1934 · page 5

CANBERRA, Wednesday.— A gold mining revival on an extensive scale is indicated as the first fruit of the Lyons…

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Search for Gold Boosting Mining

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 30 November 1934 · page 8

A gold-mining revival on an extensive scale is indicated as the first fruit of the Lyons Government's reemployment programme. After weeks…

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Gold Standard Australia's £1 Worth 97 in Gold

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 30 November 1934 · page 3

The campaign of the London Chamber of Commerce against the gold standard is described by Mr. E. C. Barton as "the latest heresy." Mr…

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Mining at Drake Prospectors Busy

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 30 November 1934 · page 8

As a result of the high price of gold a large number of leases are being taken up in the Drake mining division and many are now being…

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Treasure of the Sea Plan To Salve Lusitania Gold

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 4 December 1934 · page 6

An attempt to salvage the treasure, of the sunken Lusitania will be made by Captain Simon Lake, the submarine inventor, if experiments he is now…

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Ran Short of Coal? Coramba Was At Mercy Of Seas

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 4 December 1934 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Monday:-- An important discovery was made today among the wreckage of the Coramba, which helped to fix the…

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Gold Industry's Growth CANBERRA

Northern Star · Wednesday 5 December 1934 · page 4

The phenomenal growth of the gold industry in the Commonwealth during the depression years was shown by information furnished in the House…

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Value to Nation Gold Mining Industry MELBOURNE

Northern Star · Thursday 6 December 1934 · page 6

A revival of the gold mining industry as a means of providing employment and restoring prosperity to Australian was discussed by…

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Treble Gold Output Work For 20,000 People?

Tweed Daily · Thursday 6 December 1934 · page 6

MELBOURNE; Wednesday.-- A important conference convened by the Federal Government and attended by State and Federal representatives met…

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Gold Output Doubled

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 7 December 1934 · page 4

Thirty thousand persons are directly engaged in the gold-mining industry, according to an estimate by the Commonwealth statistician,…

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Revival of Mining Industry Federal Offer Financial Aid To States

Tweed Daily · Friday 7 December 1934 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Thursday:--Speaking at the gold mining conference, Mr. F. H. Stewart (Under Secretary for Employment) said the Commonwealth was…

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Mining Revival Commonwealth Plan Outlined Brisbane

Northern Star · Monday 10 December 1934 · page 7

At the conference held at Melbourne on last Wednesday and Thursday, between the Federal Under-Stcretary for Employment (Mr. Stewart) and the…

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ABSORB 5,500 MEN Federal Scheme For Mining Revival

Tweed Daily · Monday 10 December 1934 · page 3

CANBERRA, Sunday:— Mr. Lyons has announced to Cabinet particulars of the plan submitted by Mr. F. H. Stewart for stimulating the mining…

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Butter Output Rises Wool Down, Gold Up Canberra

Northern Star · Tuesday 11 December 1934 · page 7

The total butter production in 1933-34 reached 452,100,000 1bs., as against 419,675,000 1bs. in the previous year,…

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Butter and Gold Output Greater Wool Production Down

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 12 December 1934 · page 2

CANBERRA, Tuesday: -- The total butter production, in 1933-34 reached 452,100,000 lbs., as against 419,675,000 lbs. in the previous…

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Compensation for Foreigners Echo of Goldfields Riots PERTH

Northern Star · Wednesday 12 December 1934 · page 9

The State Government has decided to grant £5235 to foreign shopkeepers whose buildings or fittings were damaged, stolen, or destroyed in the racial…

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New Guinea Gold Fields "Veritable El Dorado."

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 14 December 1934 · page 6

"Although I did not have the opportunity of hearing it confirmed from official sources the information gleaned from talk among people of…

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Good Gold Yield

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 21 December 1934 · page 8

Promising results are being obtained from the Golden Rod gold mining claim at Thane (Warwick district), worked by Mr. P. Reibelt…

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Mining Revival

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 21 December 1934 · page 4

PART of the scheme determined upon by the Commonwealth and States to hasten national recovery is to encourage the hunt…

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Where Fortune Smiles on the Farmer Wages From South African Gold Premium

Tweed Daily · Saturday 22 December 1934 · page 3

If all circumstances of primary production were as favorable as the one mentioned in the appended letter from a Transvaal farmer, South Africa would immediately be hailed as a farming Utopia. There, as a result of, the…

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