Boy Down Mine
As 11-year-old boy was flown to Sydney after a fall down a mine shaft. The boy, Peter Andrew…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dubbo & the Western Plains · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1975
15 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers
Japan to film story on gold
A Japanese camera crew plans to visit Bathurst this year to make a color television series of the old gold mining centres in the area. The visit follows a tour…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Gold dust gave way to golden grain
Gold was the reason for the establishment of Wyalong and West Wyalong. There are a few remainders of the early days â even the bend in the main street goes back to the days when the bullock waggons went around a big tree growing beside the old time track…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →West Wyalong - the home of champions Where the “Green and Gold guernseys abound
West Wyalong, a town with a population of little more than 3,000, is claiming a record in the number of people born and bred In the town…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Gold Came Top Weight for Enngonia Cup
Gold Came, who is owned by N. Teys and trained by Bill Creevey, of Dubbo, is top weight with 59.5 kg, for the Enngonia Cup over 1600m tomorrow…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →here there and anywhere Mine caves in
Another reminder of gold mining days came when the old shaft caved in near Tattersall's Hotel in West Wyalong's Main Street. The cave-in left a. Raping hole about 20 feet…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cobar, the ailing mining town
Cobar has seen bad times before and has usually managed to come through them. But this time there is an implacable finality. People are worried. Not only the 170 miners who have been given dismissal notices, but everyone…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fifty Races for Narromine’s Gold Cup
It was a cup made of gold that put the Narromine Turf Club on to the road to success. There was a lot of human effort with it, but the Narromine Gold Cup race…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →wrecks go down the mine, climb mountains
For years and yean people have been getting themselves into an amazing variety of dilemmas, sometimes amusing and sometime tragic. They get lost, go out in boats they canât…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →International day at Coal baggie
It was appropriate that rain should make the green fields around Coal baggie…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Gold Coast Honeymoon
After honeymooning on the Gold Coast Kevin and Cheryl will make their home in Bourke. The couple were married last Saturday. The bride was formerly…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal for Japan could make a railway dream come true
Work on the railway link between Western New South Wales and Newcastle,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Water from gold mine supplies mineral pool
A place where miners laboriously dug shafts hundreds of feet into the ground in sand of gold is now the site of a large swimming pool that is open, free of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Gold That Counts
The two operations in this lake Cargallge scene are more fortunate than mot harvest workers. They are in rustproof air-conditional cabins a change from the old time…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Junior Gold Classic at Wellington
Players came from all parts between Bourke and Cronulla to take part in the…
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