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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1936

56 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 2 of 3

Captain’s Flat Mining Revival Mooted

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 29 May 1936 · page 2

Prospects of a revival of the mining industry at Captain’s Flat are enhanced by recent reports from overseas. Camp Bird, Ltd., a big London…

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Captain's Flat Mining Revival Mooted

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 2 June 1936 · page 6

Prospects of a revival of the mining industry at Captain's Flat are enhanced by recent reports from overseas…

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Trouble Over Water Race Selling Water to Miners

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 12 June 1936 · page 3

At the Warden's Court on Tuesday, before Mr. A. G. Hardwick, P.M., J. Turner, miner, of Mongarlowe, asked that mining tenement 64, held by…

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Short Serial Story Jones of the Gold Coast Chapter I.

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 19 June 1936 · page 4

IN spite of everything, there was still a touch of Oneness, a gallant air, about Jones. He didn't mind you asking if his name really was Jones,…

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Short Serial Story Jones of the Gold Coast (Continued)

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 23 June 1936 · page 8

Charteris flinched from his task of telling Bannister. Vaguely he was beginning to sense that the man was caring and fighting to hide his hurt…

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Makes Gold From Sacks of Earth and Can't Explain How It's Done

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 26 June 1936 · page 3

They called John de Dunikoweki a fraud because he claimed to extract gold from garden soil. He went to prison—but to-day he…

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Miners Wages Not to be Paid by Cheque

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 July 1936 · page 4

Declaring that he did not think the mine owners had made out a sufficiently strong case in support of their claim, Chief Judge Dethridge in the…

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Publications Received “'Boom-time Gold”

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 28 July 1936 · page 3

Is an exciting story of a search for a board of sovereigns ; and the author, G. W. Wicking, is to be congratulated on his presentation of a highly exciting…

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58 Entrapped in Blazing Mine LONDON

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 7 August 1936 · page 1

Fifty-eight miners are believed to have lost their lives in an explosion at Woodmoor Colliery, near Barnsley, Yorkshire…

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"Boom Time Gold"

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 14 August 1936 · page 3

Here is a story from the pen of G. W. Wicking that is full of thrills and goes with a swing from the start. it is quite as exciting and far more…

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Captain’s Flat s Mining Leases Further Suspension of Labour Conditions Nearly £300,000 Spent

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 25 August 1936 · page 1

At the Warden's Court yesterday before Mr. Bliss, P.M., Mr. R. C. M. Boyce asked for a further suspension of labour conditions in connection with Lake…

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Captain's Flat Mining Leases Further Suspension of Labor Conditions Nearly £300,000 Spent

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 28 August 1936 · page 3

At the last Queanbeyan Warden's Court, before Mr. S. J. Bliss, P.M., Mr. R. C. M. Boyce asked for a further suspension of labor conditions…

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Our Racing Letter the Stewards' Right to Change a Jockey On a Fancied Race Candidate. Palking, The Freak, Gold Pod and Osculum in their Great Warwick Farm Form

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 4 September 1936 · page 1

Dick Wootion recards The Freak [?] Epsom proposition, and a few weeks ago he tried to engage Billy [?] for the horse in the big…

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The Missing Store-keeper Search of Mine Shafts GRENFELL

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 15 September 1936 · page 1

As a result of the latest developments the search of the river for William Henry Lavers has been practically abandoned and old mine shafts are…

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Our Racing Letter Shakespeare Is Gold Rod's Most Dangerous Opponent At Last a Good Staying Three-year-old McGrath Stable on Wrong Horse

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 25 September 1936 · page 1

All three-year-old form so far this season points to Shakespeare as the most likely to extend Gold Rod at the end of the Derby. Mala ran the…

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Price of Gold Sydney

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 29 September 1936 · page 1

To conform with the increased sterling price of gold the Commonwealth Bank has raised the price of fine gold by 4/4 in Australian currency of £8/15/1…

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Gold Helmet Dance Large Attendance

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 6 October 1936 · page 1

About 150 couples filled the Parish Hall last night for the “Gold Helmet” Dance in aid of the funds of the Queanbeyan Fire Brigade, the function…

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Local and General Mining Revival at Araluen

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 3 November 1936 · page 2

Considerable interest was created on Saturday as a huge boring plant on a big lorry passed through Braidwood. This was bound for Araluen,…

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Mining at Major's Creek

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 6 November 1936 · page 2

The State battery has been closed down temporarily for repairs. Owing to excessive vibration it was been found necessary to provide a solid…

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Sheep Champions Queanbeyan Bureau’s Representative Takes Horden Gold Cup

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 10 November 1936 · page 2

Awards in the 1936 State sheep championship’s reveal the closest tussle of record. Messrs. A. C. and K. K. Kilby, “Homeleigh,” Hall (F.C.T.) with…

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