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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1931

87 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 5 of 5

Gold Discovery in Gippsland

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 20 November 1931 · page 1

A very rich gold discovery was made on Friday in the Orbost district (East Gippsland). The Bairnsdale School of Mines crushed two tons of…

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Colliery Disaster

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 24 November 1931 · page 7

There are 42 dead, seven missing, and many others critically injured and expected to die, as the result or an explosion in Bentley colliery, near…

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Gold Standard

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 24 November 1931 · page 7

A message from Capetown says that the Opposition has moved a censure motion against the Government, declaring that South Africa cannot…

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Forty-two Deaths Result of Mine Explosion

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 24 November 1931 · page 4

Half a mile below the ground a dis[?] explosion occurred in the Bent[?] colliery near Doncaster, England, on Friday…

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“The Prodigal” Fictionized from the Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer Film of the Same Name starring Lawrence Tibbett, famous Metropolitan Ojera Star,and Esther Ralston

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 3 December 1931 · page 4

Jeff Farraday, years ago, had had some trouble which caused him to run away from his fine Southern home, and since that time he had been a tramp…

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“Stepping Out” An amusing story of two wives who caught their husbands stepping out with a couple of gold-diggers, fictionised from the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film of the same name featuring Reginald Denny, Leila Hyams, Charlotte Greenwood, Cliff Edwards, etc. To be shown locally on16th and 17th instant

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 8 December 1931 · page 3

Tubby Smith, fat and forty, scowled as fiercely as his naturally jovial face would let him jammed his hands into his pockets and glared across the table…

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Local and General Mining

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 15 December 1931 · page 2

E. A. Thorpe his applied for registration of an old water race of about four miles long from Currijuggle Creek to Wet Flat, in the pariah of…

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