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Northern Rivers · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1938

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Polo New Zealand to Meet Town and Country for Gold Cup Sydney

Northern Star · Friday 22 April 1938 · page 11

The New Zealand team, which is fancied to win the championship, beat Hunter River players in a semi-final of the Australasian Gold Cup polo championship at…

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Disaster in Coal Mine 20 Bodies Found, 25 MISSING

Tweed Daily · Monday 25 April 1938 · page 5

HANGER (Virginia), Sunday.--Twenty charred and mangled bodies have been recovered from the Keenmount…

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Gold Rod Not for Queensland Sydney

Northern Star · Monday 25 April 1938 · page 8

Gold Rod is not to go to Brisbane for the big Queensland Turf' Club carnival. His connections were disappointed with his form on Saturday…

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Many Die in American Mine Disaster New York

Northern Star · Monday 25 April 1938 · page 7

Twenty charred and mangled bodies were recovered from the Keenmount coal mine, Hanger, Virginia, after a dust explosion…

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Wonthaggi Miners Strike

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 26 April 1938 · page 2

MELBOURNE Monday:- Following the dismissal of two men on charges of misconduct the miners at the State coal mine at Wonthaggi began…

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Brisbane Cup Meeting Gold Rod Scratched From All Engagements

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 27 April 1938 · page 2

BRISBANE, Tuesday:- Gold Rod was scratched from all engagements at the Brisbane Cup meeting. Events for which the horse has been taken out…

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£140 Millions of Eire's Debt Remitted Clause of Agreement With Britain English Coal for Ireland Duty Free New Era Is Hailed LONDON

Northern Star · Wednesday 27 April 1938 · page 7

ONE of the main clauses of the agreement between Britain and the Eire, which was signed to-day provides that, by the payment of £10 millions, the Eire will be absolved from further liability in…

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Gold Production in N.S.W. General Increase Noted SYDNEY

Northern Star · Saturday 30 April 1938 · page 11

Production of native gold in New South Wales during the month of March is estimated by the Department of Mines at 8173.2 oz. fine, valued at…

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Gold Medal For Judging Jerseys

Northern Star · Tuesday 3 May 1938 · page 5

Mr. Malcolm G. Sutton Tuckurimba), a former member of the Coraki J.F Club, won a gold medal at the Sydney show for judging…

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Amusements Regent Theatre "Western Gold"

Tweed Daily · Friday 6 May 1938 · page 6

Radio's greatest singing cowboy, Smith Ballew, becomes Harold Bell Wright's most thrilling hero in the role of a fighting, singing, loving son…

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Stabilisation of Franc £16,000,000 Worth of Gold to "Peg"

Tweed Daily · Saturday 7 May 1938 · page 3

PARIS, Thursday:- The Minister for Finance (M. Marchandeau) has officially announced that the exchange rate has been fixed at 179 to the pound sterling and that over £16,000,000 of gold is arriving in France in the…

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American Capital for Australian Gold Mines? New York

Northern Star · Monday 9 May 1938 · page 7

The Australian Associated Press learns on the highest authority that a deal involving outright sale to American capitalists or…

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20 Miners Killed 49 Injured and 60 Others Entombed Disaster at British Colliery

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 11 May 1938 · page 7

LONDON, Tuesday.—Twenty men are dead, 49 injured are in hospital and 60 others are entombed as the result of an explosion which occurred in the Markham colliery at Duckmanton early…

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Again Victim of Thieves W. A. Mining Operator in England

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 11 May 1938 · page 8

LONDON, Monday:—Thieves again broke into Alton Lodge, the home of Mr. Claude de Bernales, the Western Australian mining operator, at…

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Worst Colliery Disaster Since 1934 Death Roll, 79 LONDON

Northern Star · Thursday 12 May 1938 · page 9

THE death roll as a result of the explosions in the Markham colliery, near Chesterfield, have now…

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Big Gold Shipment To Canada OTTAWA

Northern Star · Thursday 12 May 1938 · page 9

Secrecy shrouds the arrival of a 25 million dollar gold shipment from Paris. Mr. Graham Towers, manager of the Bank of Canada, admitted the…

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Death[?]Roll Mounts To 79 in Mine Disaster In Britain

Tweed Daily · Thursday 12 May 1938 · page 9

LONDON Tuesday:-- Seventy-nine miners were killed and 49 are in hospital following the explosion at Markham Colliery, Duckmanton, as the night shift of 200 men was coming to the surface. Forty-five of the 79 killed are still…

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Negotiations for Sale of Gold Mines

Tweed Daily · Friday 13 May 1938 · page 4

NEW YORK, Wednesday:--Charles Smith, a Sydney stockbroker, has sailed for London following extensive negotiations regarding the sale of…

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Joe Concdon's Gold Mine Yields £20 000 in Three Years

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 13 May 1938 · page 3

More than £20,000 worth of gold has been won from the Midas mine at Lolworth, near Charters Towers, in the last three years…

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Gold Watch Found

Northern Star · Friday 13 May 1938 · page 3

The Lismore police have in their possession a gold watch found some time ago and handed to them. Anyone able to identify it may receive it from…

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