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Mining & the mines, 1938

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Gas From Brown Coal Gas Company's Successful Experiments Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 11 June 1938 · page 2

Considerable success has attended the experiments at the South Melbourne works of the Metropolitan Gas Co. in generating domestic gas…

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Gold by Air Load From Kalgoorlie Reaches Sydney Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 15 June 1938 · page 1

The airliner Pengana landed at Mascot Aerodrome to-day with gold weighing 300 lbs and worth £30,000 from Kalgoorlie…

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Mining the Land Soil Fertility Endangered

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 17 June 1938 · page 1

The Department of Agriculture points out that in recent years the reduction in fertility of the lands of the newer countries by actual loss of the…

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Foreign Mining Interests in Spain Britain to Be Safeguarded London

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 17 June 1938 · page 1

Considerable interest attaches to the decision of General Franco in conniption with foreign mining concessions in Spain, which is expected to safe…

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Franco's Decision Foreign Mining Interests in Spain Britain to Be Safeguarded Bomb-Free Ports Suggested LONDON

Daily Advertiser · Friday 17 June 1938 · page 1

Considerable interest attaches to the decision of General Franco in connection with foreign mining concessions in Spain, which is expected to safeguard…

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Gold Found in Street From Old Mine Shaft

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 18 June 1938 · page 4

While it was being used for road-making at the corner of Hannan and Porter streets, Kalgoorlie, a municipal road roller caused the mouth of an old…

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Flares Wins Ascot Gold Cup London

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 18 June 1938 · page 10

The Gold Cup, run at Ascot over a distance of two miles and four furlongs, resulted: Flares 1. Buckleigh 2. Senor 3…

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Amusements "Gold Is Where You Find It"

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 21 June 1938 · page 5

"Gold is Where You Find It," all technicolor production starring Claude Raines and Olivia de Havilland, is scheduled as the Capitol Theatre's star…

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Fall of Coal Two Miners Buried Rescuers Work Feverishly CESSNOCK

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 22 June 1938 · page 4

With only the creaking of pit prop to bark out a warning, two brothers. James and Peter Harrower, both married, were buried by a heavy fall of…

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Coal Fall at Aberdare Cessnock

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 22 June 1938 · page 1

Rescue parties succeeded shortly before 9 o'clock in extricating Peter Harrower. 48, one of the two men who had been buried by a fair of coal at…

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Amusements "GOLD [?] Where You Fine It"

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 22 June 1938 · page 6

"Shall California belong to the wheat-growers, who bring food-crops from the soil each year, or to the hydraulic miners, whose terrific streams…

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Fire in Cessnock Colliery Cessnock

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 23 June 1938 · page 3

An outbreak of fire in the workings of Cessnock No. 2 colliery cas necessitated a section of the mine being sealed. The fire was discovered…

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Amusements "Gold Is Where You Find It"

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 23 June 1938 · page 2

The final screenings of the beautiful romance of the Californian wheat fields. "Gold is Where You Find It," with Oliva de Havilland and Claude…

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Mine' Idle After Fatality Managers's Legs Broken Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 23 June 1938 · page 3

The Aberdare Central Mine was idle to-day out of respect to the death of James Harrower, who was fatally injured in yesterday's accident…

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Far East War Japanese Seamen Killed Vessel Strikes Mines Shanghai

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 25 June 1938 · page 11

More than 100 Japanese sailors and marines were killed when a Japanese launch in which they were travelling struck a Chinese mine above Anking…

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Mr. Eric Campbell Resigns From Mining Company Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 27 June 1938 · page 1

His resignation as a director of Mount Morgan Limited was announced to-day by Mr. Eric Campbell. Mr. Campbell stated that as soon…

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Coal Industry Mr. Lyons Does Not Expect a Crisis CANBERRA

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 29 June 1938 · page 1

Mr. James (Lab. N.S.W.) said in the House of Representatives that a crisis was developing in the coal industry which would culminate. in a general…

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Coal Industry Mr. Lyons Does Not Expect a Crisis "No Need for Conference" Canberra

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 29 June 1938 · page 1

Mr. James (Lab., N.S.W.) said in the House of Representatives to-day that a crisis was developing in the coal industry, which would culminate…

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Miners' Hours

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 30 June 1938 · page 2

The chairman of the Northern Collieries Association (Mr. J. C. McGann) sold at a conference of the New South Wales colliery proprietors representing…

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Railway Coal Stolen

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 30 June 1938 · page 2

The Railway Department is always having, trouble with minor thefts from the various large coal dumps in Junee and, consequently, increased…

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