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Northern Rivers · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1937

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Elocution Miss Valmai Stokes Wins Gold Medal Lismore Contests

Northern Star · Wednesday 23 June 1937 · page 5

Six elocutionists competed for the gold medal contest held in Lismore last night under the auspices of the Women's Christian Temperance…

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Fire in South African Mine Unused Shaft a Blazing Inferno

Tweed Daily · Thursday 24 June 1937 · page 8

CAPE TOWN, Tuesday:-- No. 12 shaft at the Crown mines, heavily timbered with nine-inch pitch pine poles, has been a blazing inferno for…

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The Blue and Gold Ball Last Night's Success Funds For Baby Health Centre Project

Tweed Daily · Thursday 24 June 1937 · page 4

Ideal conditions were experienced for the Blue and Gold Ball conducted last night at Murwillumbah School of Arts under the auspices of…

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"Not Likely" Strike of Coal Miners

Tweed Daily · Friday 25 June 1937 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Thursday:- In coal-mining circles here it is not thought likely that the miners' claims will lead to a general…

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Mines Discovered

Tweed Daily · Friday 25 June 1937 · page 7

BARCELONA, Wednesday:- The naval authorities report the discovery of two mines at Cape Bajur, 70 miles north-east of Barcelona. They have…

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Gold Medallist

Northern Star · Friday 25 June 1937 · page 4

Miss Valmal Stokes, of lismore, who won the gold medal elocutionary contest organised by the Lismore branch of the Women's…

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Too Costly Producing Petrol From Coal Committee's Report

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 25 June 1937 · page 8

Petrol produced from Australian coal would require a subsidy of at least 1s a gallon, according to expert calculations, and for…

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A Miners Strike? Not Likely—odds Against Success. Sydney

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 25 June 1937 · page 5

In coal mining circles in Newcastle it is not thought likely the miners claims will lead to a general mining strike throughout the State…

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Permission to Seize Gold Ships Placed Under Seal

Tweed Daily · Monday 28 June 1937 · page 5

LA ROCHELLE, Saturday:-- The British ship Seabank and the Spanish freighter Axpemendi, to which the Seabank has transferred most of her…

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Gold In Gravel Pit

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 29 June 1937 · page 3

What it is hoped will prove a rich gold-bearing reef has been uncovered at the Stanley T.S.R. by Burrangong Council workmen digging a gravel…

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Urbenville Plans Entertainment For Minister For Mines

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 29 June 1937 · page 4

Joint action is being taken by the Urbenville Chamber of Commence and the Urbenville branch of the Primary producers' Union to formulate…

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Market Recovery End of Gold Scare LONDON

Northern Star · Tuesday 29 June 1937 · page 7

Recovery at last seems round the corner. The Government's announcement of an increase in the exchange fund caused a blazing recovery in…

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British Markets Now More Optimistic "Recovery Round the Corner" Marked Improvement in Gold Shares

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 29 June 1937 · page 2

LONDON, Sunday:-- Recovery at last seems round the corner. The Government's announcement of its intention to increase by £200,000,000 the Exchange Equalisation. Fund caused a marked recovery in gold shares. Rubber…

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London Gold Position Has Improved London

Northern Star · Wednesday 30 June 1937 · page 7

MOVING a resolution in the House of Commons authorising an increase in the exchange equalisation fund of…

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Hopes for Intensive Development North Queensland Gold Bearing Areas

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 30 June 1937 · page 4

CANBERRA, Tuesday:- Hopes for intensive development of the gold bearing areas of North Queensland are held out in the annual report…

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Explosion Wrecks Building Outrage at Colliery on Rothbury Estate

Tweed Daily · Thursday 1 July 1937 · page 9

SYDNEY, Wednesday:- An explosion, deliberately caused, wrecked a building used as an explosives magazine at the CWM-DU…

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France Virtually Denuded of Gold Grave Crisis Startling Figures Disclosed Monetary Agreement May Be Denounced

Tweed Daily · Thursday 1 July 1937 · page 5

PARIS, Tuesday:- Startling figures showing France's financial plight were given by M. Bonnet (Minister of Finance) to the Finance Committee of the Chamber of Deputies prior to the Committee's vote…

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Gold Feathers Match

Tweed Daily · Friday 2 July 1937 · page 7

Alstonville has challenged for the Gold Feathers, which a Murwillumbah rink recently won from Ballina. The match will be played on the…

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Gold And Shell Output Of N. Territory

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 2 July 1937 · page 7

A report on the administration of the Northern Territory for the year 1936, tabled in the House of Representatives shows that during the year…

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Guy Fawkes Mine Indications of Remarkable Richness. Mt. Isa Coy Interested

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 2 July 1937 · page 6

As stated in a recent issue, remarkable—values "won lately in a mine in tho Guy Fawkes district give promise of really big…

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