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Mining & the mines, 1930

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Australianities Jumping a Mine Bowling Alley Point News by Gunfire on Our Selection

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 12 December 1930 · page 4

Mine-Jumping was a great enterprise in the days when gold mining constituted one of our important industries. How many a row started…

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Notes and Gold Reserve

Daily Advertiser · Monday 15 December 1930 · page 2

A statement released on Friday in Sydney by the Commonwealth Bank shows the note issue at £45,653,426. Of that amount, £22,530,457 is held by…

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Will Carter's Notes Australianities Jumping a Mine

Daily Advertiser · Monday 15 December 1930 · page 1

Mine jumping was a great enterprise in the days when gold mining constituted one of our important industries. How many a row started over the…

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Broken Hill Mines Wage Reduction Proposal Broken Hill

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 15 December 1930 · page 1
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The terms on which the mining companies will re-open are being submitted to the union. They provide for a basic wage of l5/ a day, with 375…

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Jumping a Mine

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 16 December 1930 · page 3

Will Carter writes:—Mine jumping was a great enterprise in the days when gold mining constituted one of our important industries…

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Almost Drowned Mine Flooded Narrow Escape Brisbane

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 16 December 1930 · page 2

Mr. Alexander Laurie, a colliery proprietor, had a Sensational experience on Saturday when he was trapped in the. Ardath mine at Langfield, after…

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South Coast Collieries Wollongong

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 17 December 1930 · page 5

All the collieries were idle on the South Coast to-day, as a mark of respect to the memory of Norman Brown…

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Norman Brown Anniversary of Death Collieries Cease Work Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 17 December 1930 · page 5

All the northern collieries ceased work to-day in order to enable the men to pay a tribute to the memory of Norman Brown, who was killed during…

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Rich Gold at Hill End

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 17 December 1930 · page 2

Word from Bathurst states that excitement prevails at Hill End over the splendid results achieved by A. B. Carver and party, who are sinking in…

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Colliery Fatalities SYDNEY

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 20 December 1930 · page 10

Two men were killed and two brothers injured in colliery accidents today. John McGuinness, 50, was fatally…

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Colliery Accidents Two Men Killed Two Injured NEWCASTLE

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 20 December 1930 · page 4

Two men were killed and two others injured in colliery accidents to-day John M Guinness, aged 50 years, a shiftman, of Belmont, and Albert…

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Gold From Sand Goldmaker of Hilden Dusseldorf, Dec. 19

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 20 December 1930 · page 16

The trial has begun of Heinrich Kurshildgen, otherwise the Gold-maker of Hilden," who was using a shed for a laboratory, and asserted…

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Gold Discovery

Daily Advertiser · Monday 22 December 1930 · page 2

A resident of Griffith, Mr. Harry Day, who with his sons has been prospecting in the district, has discovered a reef two feet wide and carrying very…

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South Australia Saves Tackling the Depression Coal From England Danger of Inflation

Daily Advertiser · Monday 22 December 1930 · page 4

(The writer of this article (in the Melbourne "Herald") Mt. Richard Layton Butler, the ex-Premier of South Australia, is now the Leader of…

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Mineral Production Falling Off in State Figures Coal the Main Factor Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 23 December 1930 · page 2

The Minister for Mines (Mr. Baddeley) stated to-night that the estimated value of the mineral production of New South Wales for 1930 was…

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Billiards Gold Cup Contest Lindrum a Bye London

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 24 December 1930 · page 10

Lindrum has drawn a bye in the final for the Gold Cup and he meets the winner of the Newman-Davis match on February 2…

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Correspondence Gold at Tumbarumba (To the Editor "Daily Advertiser")

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 24 December 1930 · page 7

Sir,—I wish to inform you of the recent discovery of gold at Tumbarumba. Mr. Heffner and I are boring a dean lead of basalt and are down…

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Gold Flow Reorganisation Plan Economic Clouds Views Of Sir Hugh Denison

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 27 December 1930 · page 2

Would settlement of international payments in a form that would not necessitate transfer of gold from country, to country means a step towards a…

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Old King Coal Is Not So Merry

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 30 December 1930 · page 6

I understand that famous people—politicians, potentates and personages—have contributed articles to the magazine section of "The Herald."…

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