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Northern Rivers · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1936

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Tennants Creek Gold Miners Decision to Fight for Rights

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 28 April 1936 · page 5

TENNANTS CREEK, Monday:--Addressing a fiery meeting of miners in the main street of the goldfield township on Saturday night, Mr. Harold…

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Dispute Over Engine Drivers Miners Give Notice to Management

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 28 April 1936 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Monday:-- Colliery members of the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemen's Association employed at the John Darling, Burwood,…

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Tennant Creek Miners Minister's Reply to Complaints

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 29 April 1936 · page 3

CANBERRA, Tuesday.--The Minister for the Interior (Mr. Paterson), referring to the meeting of miners at Tennants Creek on Saturday, stated…

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Moose River Mine Rescue Scadding Still May Lose His Feet

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 29 April 1936 · page 5

HALIFAX, Monday: -- Physicians state that the condition of Scadding's feet has improved, but they are still unable to declare that the danger of…

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Tapestry Scores. Wagga Gold Cup SYDNEY

Northern Star · Thursday 30 April 1936 · page 8

The Wagga Wagga Gold Cup, of 10 furlongs, run to-day, resulted: Tapestry, 9-0 (Parsons), 1; Opinion, 8-8 (McMenamin), 2;…

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Gold Production Canberra

Northern Star · Friday 1 May 1936 · page 11

The production of gold in Australia for the quarter ending March 31, 1936, amounted to 244,966 fine ounces compared with 153,580 fine ounces for the…

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WORTH £2,130,725. Australia's Gold Production for March Quarter

Tweed Daily · Friday 1 May 1936 · page 4

CANBERRA, Thursday.--Gold produced in Australia for the quarter ended March amounted to 244,966 fine ounces, valued in Australian currency…

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Rocky River Gold Prospects Big Developments

Northern Star · Saturday 2 May 1936 · page 8

In the years between 1854 and 1859 gold valued at over £1,000,000 was won on the highlands in the vicinity of…

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Flow of Gold to United States 1741 Million Dollar worth In 1935

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 5 May 1936 · page 5

WASHINGTON, Sunday:--The Department of Commerce, in its annual analysis of the nation's international payments, indicated that the…

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Gold From France Pouring Into Britain Feat of Socialist Regime

Tweed Daily · Thursday 7 May 1936 · page 6

LONDON, Tuesday:--Every air liner from Paris is heavily laden with gold due to French nervousness at the advent of a…

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Miners Bitterly Opposed Lang Faction's Plans Control of Station 2KY

Tweed Daily · Friday 8 May 1936 · page 6

SYDNEY, Thursday.--Bitter opposition to the plans of the Lang faction with regard to the official organ of the State Labor Party…

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Toohey's Gold Cup

Northern Star · Tuesday 12 May 1936 · page 11

Through Mr. G. Pyke, of the Hotel Gollan, Lismore, a gold cup has been donated by Tooheys Brewery, to be known as the Tooheys' gold cup. It…

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Deadly Coal Gas Man Dies in Trench

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 12 May 1936 · page 5

ROCKHAMPTON, Monday: -- Believed to have died from the effects of coal gas poisoning, the body of Walter Lester (49), married, was…

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Tennants Creek Miners Deputation to Ride Camels to Canberra

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 12 May 1936 · page 2

TENNANTS CREEK, Monday:--The suggestion made at an earlier meeting that a deputation seeking the restoration of the Government batteries…

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World's Gold Record Figures Heavy Bank Losses BASLE

Northern Star · Wednesday 13 May 1936 · page 5

The world's gold production attained not only a new high figure, but the largest year's increase ever recorded,…

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World's Production of Gold Soared Last Year Higher Commodity Prices Predicted

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 13 May 1936 · page 3

BASLE, Monday:-- The world's gold production during the past year attained not only a new high figure, but the largest year's…

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Miners Decline to Work Protest Against Hanging

Tweed Daily · Thursday 14 May 1936 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday:--As a protest against the hanging of Hickey, the miners employed at the Aberdare Central colliery, in the Maitland district,…

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Forestry: Mining Government Aid CANBERRA

Northern Star · Thursday 14 May 1936 · page 8

The Treasurer (Mr. Casey) introduced in the House of Representatives to-night a bill to provide during 1936-37 and 1937-38 a sum of…

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In the Wilds of Papua Five Months Gold Prospecting Keerrong Man Relates His Experiences

Northern Star · Thursday 14 May 1936 · page 13

To have spent five months with a gold pro[?] party in the wilds of Papua was the experience of Mr. Tom Par kes, who is at present staying in the Lismore district during part of three…

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Tennants Creek Gold Field Public Battery to be Set Up

Tweed Daily · Friday 15 May 1936 · page 4

CANBERRA, Thursday:-- Canberra will not now be invaded by a camel corps of miners from Tennants Creek, fof the Minister for the Interior (Mr…

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