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Mining & the mines, 1932

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Eric Weissel Gold Cup Young Defeats Temora

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 9 September 1932 · page 2

Young defeated Temora for the Weissel Cup at Young on Wednesday by 17 points to 14 after leading 14 points to nil at half time…

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Gold Near Bathurst a Small Rush SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 9 September 1932 · page 1
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A nugget, weighing 8oz. expected to yield 5oz. of pure gold, was unearthed at Trunkey, near Bathurst, by Jack Donnelly, a local prospector. The…

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Bowling Club Meeting of Committee Gold Cup Presented

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 9 September 1932 · page 2

The last meeting of the retiring committee of the Bowling Club was held at the Mechanics' Institute on Wednesday evening last, there being…

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Strike Threat September 19 Miners' Federation Move

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 10 September 1932 · page 1

The Miners' Federation Central Council decided on Thursday night to recommend to members that a general strike against all wage cuts…

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Aladdin's Cave Lasseter's Lost Gold Field

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 10 September 1932 · page 13

Das. Lasseter's tragic expedition to Central Australia is recalled by news of a gold discovery at The Granite, 400 miles northwest of Alice Springs…

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Newcastle Miners Expected to Favor, Strike Newcastle

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 10 September 1932 · page 1

It is expected that the miners will resolve to strike at the aggregate meetings to be held on Wednesday. It is not expected that…

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Miners Strike Considered Stoppage Considered Unlikely Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 10 September 1932 · page 1

A union official closely in touch with the mining situation declared today that although the central council of the Miners' Federation had…

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One Big Union in Each Industry Miners' Suggestion Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 10 September 1932 · page 1

The Federal council of the Miners' Federation continued its sitting here to-day. The council decided to bring before the…

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Sign of Gold Activities at Garibaldi Reef Government Geologist's Advice YOUNG

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 12 September 1932 · page 1

MR. L. F. Harper, Government Geologist, was asked specially to come to Young, from Grenfell, to order to examine the result of…

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Northern Collieries Idle To-morrow Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 13 September 1932 · page 2

All northern collieries will be idle on Wednesday when mass meetings of the miners will consider the recommendation of the Federal council of…

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South African Wool Rival to Australian Mr. Paul Gardner's Impressions Gold Mining Booming

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 13 September 1932 · page 2

An interested visitor to Wagga during the last few days has been Mr. Paul Gardner, Professor of Statistics at the Johannesburg University,…

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General Strike Northern Coal Miners Opinion Sharply Divided Union Has No Funds NEWCASTLE

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 15 September 1932 · page 1

Aggregate meetings of miners were held in various sections of the northern coalfields to-day to consider the recommendation that a general strike…

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General Strike Miners Differ Lithgow

Daily Advertiser · Friday 16 September 1932 · page 5

An aggregate meeting of miners at Cullen Bullen today supported the strike proposal by 77 votes to 47, while the proposal was repected at…

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FOOTBALL Weissel Gold Cup Young's Runaway Win

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 16 September 1932 · page 8

Cootamundra had great difficulty in getting a team together to play for the Weissel Gold Cup at Young on Wednesday. Eventually two…

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Miners' Strike Men Reject Proposal

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 17 September 1932 · page 3

All aggregate meetings of miners in N.S.W. with the exception of those at Gessnock, West Wallsend, Lithgow and Curlewis rejected the…

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£100 Grant to Assist Temora Miners

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 19 September 1932 · page 2

Mr. Hugh Main, M.L.A. was recently written to by Mr. W. Nixon, of Temora, in connection with a grant of £100 for the purpose of assisting…

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Fire at Pit Top Miners Not Endangered Newcastle

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 21 September 1932 · page 1

The pit top buildings of the John Darling colliery at Belmont caught fire this morning. The extent of the damage is not thought to be serious…

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Tariff Board Bunker Coal Duty Refused High Bate of Profit Port of Fremantle. Canberra

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 24 September 1932 · page 8

The report by the "Tariff Board presented to Parliament today rejected the claim for the imposition of a duly on bunker coal or for the payment of…

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Mining

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 27 September 1932 · page 3

It is reported that some capital is likely to be invested in O'Dwyer and party's Billapaloora mines. And. why should it not be so? These…

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