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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1922

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The Gold Rush

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 27 October 1922 · page 2

Sergeant Tracey, in charge of the Rylstone Police Dietrich who to else Warden's :Bailiff, is having a very busy time of late. He is working…

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Narr[?]mine Municipal Council

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 7 November 1922 · page 4

The ordinary meeting of the Narromine Municiapal Council was held on Monday evening of last week, The Mayor (Alderman W. J. Bishop)…

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A Gold Robbery

The Wellington Times · Thursday 23 November 1922 · page 4

When the men employed in tho gold-room at the Great Boulder Perserverance mine, Kalgoorlie (W.A.) arrived at work at 8 o'clock on Tuesday…

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Eating Off Gold Plates! a State Banquet at Buckingham Palace

The Wellington Times · Thursday 23 November 1922 · page 8

A blaze and riot of gold Far-spreading tables agleam with the yellow of golden plates, of opergnes that are miracles of the goldsmith's art, and got…

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The Lure of Gold

Western Age · Friday 24 November 1922 · page 4
Also in Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent

What a chang has come over [?] people in regard to the [?]…

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It's a Habit of Mine! Allow Your Mind to Work Easily and Live Long

The Wellington Times · Thursday 7 December 1922 · page 6

Everyone condemns a bad habit, yet how many of us have over considered what constitutes the crim? What do we mean—"A bad habit of his,"-"It's…

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Mining the Occidental Mine

Western Age · Friday 8 December 1922 · page 2
Also in Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent

"If the mine in anything like the dazzling property the report speaks of, work is sheer folly, and suspension at once; an…

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A Gold Diviner Faith of Mr McGLASHEN

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Friday 22 December 1922 · page 9

In the Dubble district we have a gold diviner. [?]a gold tipped came he claimed to have traced an auriferous reef a distance of 35 milles from…

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All That Glitters Is Not Gold

The Western Herald · Saturday 23 December 1922 · page 3

One day an Irishman was seated in the waiting-room of a station with an odorous pipe in his mouth. One of the attendants called his attention to the…

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