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Mining & the mines, 1935

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Thirty-three Killed 76 Injured Indian Colliery Disaster Calcutta

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 27 July 1935 · page 1

India's biggest colliery disaster occurred to-day at Giridah, where 33 were killed and 76 injured following the ignition of liquid…

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Mining Accident One Killed; One Seriously Injured Perth

Daily Advertiser · Monday 29 July 1935 · page 1

Ottorino Corrobio, an Italion, was killed while firing shots from a 600ft. level in the Great Boulder Mine at Kalgoorlie yesterday. Another Italian…

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Amusements "Gold Diggers of 1935"

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 30 July 1935 · page 4

The latest musical romance will be shown at the Capitol Theatre to-night. All will remember with pleasure "Gold Diggers of 1934," and all who see…

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Gold Rush to Central Australia Unjustified, Says Geologist Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 30 July 1935 · page 3

In a report to the Minister in Charge of Development (Senator M'Lachlan), the assistant-geologist of the survey operating in the Northern Territory…

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Turkeys as Gold Miners

Tumbarumba Times · Thursday 1 August 1935 · page 2

Tumbarumba district turkeys are likely to rival in romance the goose that laid the golden egg, of nursery book fame. We have heard of sheep…

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Amusements "Gold Diggers of 1935"

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 1 August 1935 · page 6

To-night is the last night of the bright musical romance, "Gold Diggers of 1935," at the Capitol. The picture, during its stay in Wagga, has…

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Oil From Coal Remarkable Progress Huge Deliveries of Petrol London

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 1 August 1935 · page 1

The Secretary for Mines (Mr. Crookshank), in answer to a request in the House of Commons to-day, furnished an interesting statement by the…

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Colliery Disaster In Eastern Transvaal CAPETOWN

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 2 August 1935 · page 1

The acting manager, two Europeans, and 74 natives were killed in a colliery disaster in Eastern Transvaal, resulting from an inexplicable…

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Amusements "Gold Diggers" Going

Daily Advertiser · Friday 2 August 1935 · page 5

For the last time at the Capitol Theatre to-night will be seen the spectacular musical romance, "Gold Diggers of 1935." Starred in this film are Dick…

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Re-working of Harden Mine Harden

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 2 August 1935 · page 1

The Federal Government is to be asked to re-open the Harden Gold Mine as a means of providing work for the unemployed…

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Weissel Gold Cup

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 3 August 1935 · page 12

Young defeated Temora for the Eric Weissel Gold Cup by 16 to 6…

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High Grade Oil From Coal Progress in Britain

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 3 August 1935 · page 5

The important progress made in the extraction of petrol from coal was revealed in the House of Commons on Tuesday by the Secretary for Mines…

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Turkeys As Gold Miners

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 6 August 1935 · page 2

Tumbarumba district turkeys are likely to rival in romance the goose that laid the colden egg, of nursery book fame. We have heard of sheep…

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Gold Nugget at Gundagai

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 6 August 1935 · page 2

Few people have seen a nugget of gold weighing more than 100 oz., but there was one in Gundagai recently. Not quite the size of a jam tin, the…

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Mining Act Important Amendments

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 6 August 1935 · page 3

The Mining (Amendment) Act, 1935, came into operation on 15th July, 1935. Two of the main features of the…

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"Glass Miners" Novel Strike at Alexandria Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 7 August 1935 · page 2

Some months ago several unemployed men at Alexandria discovered that there was a market for broken glass which was found in abundance in a local pit…

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Mr. Theodore's Mines Syndicate Shares £1,000,000 Profitable Fiji Venture Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Friday 9 August 1935 · page 2

The four members of the Emperor Syndicate (Messrs E. G. Theodore, John Wren, P. F. Cody and F. Packer) will share £1,000,000 between them through…

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Italy's Purchases Ships, Coal, and Food Supplies London

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 10 August 1935 · page 4

The "Chronicle" states that Italy has acquired for troop carrying purposes the ex-Canadian Pacific liners Malita and Minnedosa, each of 15,183…

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Mining Dredging Adjunbilly Swamp

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 13 August 1935 · page 5

The applications at the Tumut Warden's court last week of Mr. H. Denman Groom for six authorities to enter to search for gold, each of…

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Mr. Theodore's Mines Syndicate Shares £1,000,000 Profitable Fiji Venture

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 13 August 1935 · page 3

The four members of the Emperor Syndicate (Messrs. E. G. Theodore, John Wren, P. F. Cody and F. Packer) will share £1,000,000 between…

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