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Mining & the mines, 1932

372 stories in Riverina's papers · page 7 of 19

Football Rugby League Weissel Gold Cup Temora Defeats Junee

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 19 May 1932 · page 6

Junee and Temora met at Junee yesterday in the first match of the season for the Eric Weissel Cold Cup Temora defeated the holders by 8…

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New Zealand Miners Raid on Store Auckland (N.z.)

Daily Advertiser · Friday 20 May 1932 · page 1

A mob of unemployed raided a store in the mining township of Huntlv to-day and seized all the foodstuffs that they could carry away. A large body…

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Child O' Mine

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 21 May 1932 · page 6

Her eyes were large and wonder-lit A they looked into mine; Within two opal pools do flit, Light from the Light Divine…

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Greta Mine Fire Cavities Filled West Maitland

Daily Advertiser · Monday 23 May 1932 · page 2

The work of sealing cavities and other surface openings to smother the underground fires at Greta ceased to-day. The Government grant has been…

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Hore Gold Cup Junee and Tumut Draw

Daily Advertiser · Monday 23 May 1932 · page 5

Playing at Junes yesterday for the John Hore Gold Cup, Junee and Tumut each scored eight points. The previous. Sunday Junee and Cootamundra had…

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Jack Hore Gold Cup Junee and Tumut Draw

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 23 May 1932 · page 4

Playing at Junee yesterday for the Jack Hore Gold Cup, Junee and Tumut each scored eight points. The previous Sunday Junee and…

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Georges Philippar Burning Vessel Sinks £30,000 In Gold Ingots Lost PARIS

Daily Advertiser · Monday 23 May 1932 · page 1

Swept from stem to stern by flames, gutted fore and aft, and with the red-hot plates of her buckled hull sizzling as the waters lapped her sides, all…

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Football John Hore Gold Cup Junco and Tumut Draw

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 24 May 1932 · page 2

Playing at Junce on Sunday for the John Hore Gold Cup, Junee and Tumut each scored eight points. The previous Sunday. Junee and…

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Surveyor Killed at Poet Kembla Mine Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 25 May 1932 · page 5

Mr. F. K. Jarvie, a surveyor at the Port Kembia mine, met his death this morning when lie was run down by a skip laden with coal…

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Stop-press Gold Cup Match Cootamundra V. Temora

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 25 May 1932 · page 1

Just before half-time in the above match the scores were 81 to nil in favor of Tomora…

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Mine Explosion Five Men Killed Three Rescuers Also Perish London

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 25 May 1932 · page 1

Five miners were killed in an explosion in the Shining Gutter mine near Bakewell (Derbyshire). Three members of the rescue party,…

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Great Boulder Mine New Lode Struck Perth

Daily Advertiser · Friday 27 May 1932 · page 1
Also in Cootamundra Herald

Considerable importance is attached to the revival of operations at the Great Boulder mine, where a now lode has been struck at a level of…

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Cootamundra v. Temora Gold Cup Retained, by Temora by 8 Points to 5

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 27 May 1932 · page 4

Full of confidence, Cootamundra visited Temora on Wednesday to play for the Eric Weissel Gold Cup, and suffered defeat by 8 points to 5, after…

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Greta Mine Fires Concrete Subterranean Walls Railway Line Safe Newcastle

Daily Advertiser · Monday 30 May 1932 · page 1

Fires may rago in the workings of the Old Greta mine, but they will never again threaten the safety of the main northern railway line…

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Tumbarumba Mining Application for Dredging Lease Work for 50 Men

Daily Advertiser · Monday 30 May 1932 · page 4

Before Mr. C. W. Swiney, Mining Warden, at Tumbarumba on Friday, Charles Bismark Heinecke app[?] for a dredging lease over an area of…

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Cobar Mines Renewal of Activities Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 31 May 1932 · page 2

The general secretary of the United Country Party (Colonel Munro) to-day received a telegram from the Cobar branch of the Graziers'…

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Golf Women's Gold Championship Miss Tolburst Qualifies London

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 31 May 1932 · page 6

Miss Susie Tolburst, the Australian player, scored 83 and 85. totalling 168, and thus qualified to play in the women's gold championship match…

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Gold Watch Left on Train

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 1 June 1932 · page 2

After the mail train had left Junee on Monday morning a railway employee, cleaning a sleeping car, found a gold watch and chain in the car…

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Missing Boy Body Found in Mine Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 2 June 1932 · page 3

The body of Frank Sexton, aged 8 years, for whom hundreds of civilians had been searching for some days, was to-day found at the bottom of the…

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