Wagga's Most Successful Cup Races Glenwitch Wins the Gold Cup Fireman Atones by Taking the Town Plate Cup Placings to Deputy Ruler and Veneration Brilliant Welter Wins by Gracita and Manuforti Flying Handicaps to Farr Son and Maypole Good Fields And Splendid Racing Throughout The Two Days' Meeting
Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 7 May 1938 · page 5
The Autumn holiday season locally concluded brilliantly with the two days' Gold Cup Carnival of the Murrumbidgee Turf Club. Though the Cup racing season is responsible for a big influx of visitors, and many homes had friends staying with them over…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners Launch Campaign Shorter Week and Pensions Sydney
Daily Advertiser · Monday 9 May 1938 · page 1
A national convention of the Miners' Federation will be held on August 4 to launch a campaign for pensions and a shorter working week, the central…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ban on Scrap Iron Miners Support Wharf Men Sydney
Daily Advertiser · Monday 9 May 1938 · page 1
The Central Council of the Miners Federation to-day pledged all possible support, to the Waterside Workers Federation if action should be taken…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MINING Applications for Dredging Leases Series on Adelong Creek Will Take Three Day’s Hearing Adjourned to May 30
The Gundagai Independent · Monday 9 May 1938 · page 2
At the Adelong Warden’s Court last week the Mining Warden (Mr Grudgeon) was engaged on the preliminaries of a series of applications…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Conspiracy Alleged Bendigo Gold Mine Case Bendigo
Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 10 May 1938 · page 1
Frank Savage, stock and share broker, of Bendigo, was charged at the Bendigo City Court to-day with having conspired with Ernest Gordon…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Six Months Gaol For Stealing Gold Watch
The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 10 May 1938 · page 1
GEORGE Baxter pleaded guilty at the police court on Thursday, to stealing a ladies' gold wristlet watch valued at £8/10/…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Conspiracy Alleged to Steal Ore From, Gold Mine Melbourne
Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 11 May 1938 · page 1
The hearing began to-day in the Bendigo City Court of the charge against Prank Savage, stock, and share broker of conspiracy to induce other…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →79 Killed in a Colliery Disaster in England! Britain's Worst Mine Disaster Since 1934 40 Injured London
Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 11 May 1938 · page 1
The death roll as a result of explosion in Markham Colliery, near Chesterfield, have reached 72. About 40 others were injured. It is the worst mine disaster in Britain since 1934…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mine Disaster Twewty-six Killed Many in Hospital More Than 1O0 Men Entrapped LONDON
Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 11 May 1938 · page 1
An explosion at Markham Colliery, Duckmanton, entrapped 123 men as the night shift of 200 men was coming to the surface. An unknown number…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal and Petrol Manufacture From Crops Possibility of Future
Daily Advertiser · Thursday 12 May 1938 · page 7
Chemists will be able to convert farm crops into substitutes for coal, petroleum and natural gas before these resources are exhausted, according to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Colliery Disaster British Death Roll Now 79 Bishop Holds Service at Pithead LONDON
Daily Advertiser · Thursday 12 May 1938 · page 1
The death roll as the result of explosions in the Markham colliery, near Chesterfield, has now reached 79. About 40 other miners were injured…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mystery Gold Shipment Bank of Canada Secretive Ottawa
Daily Advertiser · Thursday 12 May 1938 · page 1
Secrecy surrounds the arrival of a 25,000,000-dollar gold shipment from Paris. Mr. Graham Towers, manager of the Bank of Canada, admits the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Violence Feared at West Australian Mining Centre Kalgoorlie
Daily Advertiser · Thursday 12 May 1938 · page 4
So incensed have the miners become at what they allege to be "pin pricking" tactics that extra police have been rushed to Beria for fear of riots…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners Demand Gaol Kalgoorlie
Daily Advertiser · Friday 13 May 1938 · page 2
Lancefield miners, who have been fined £10, in default three days' gaol, marched to the court house to-day and demanded to do their three days in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mother of Mine Holmwood Lyric Writer
Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 13 May 1938 · page 1
Mr. E. J. Warren, headmaster of Holmwood Public School, is an idealist where music is concerned. When approached by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gas Seepage Aberdare Miners Refuse to Go Below Cessnock
Daily Advertiser · Friday 13 May 1938 · page 1
Because they believed that gas was seeping through a seal erected to isolate a section of the mine where heating up had occurred years age, the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Supplies Why One Formation Is Used Wagga Engineer's Report
Daily Advertiser · Friday 13 May 1938 · page 7
Reporting to the Wagga Municipal Council on the coal supplies used at the Wagga Gas Works, the engineer (Mr. H. J. Chaston) stated:—…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Remarkable Evidence Trial of Share Broker Alleged Attempt to Blow Up Portion Up Mine Melbourne
Daily Advertiser · Friday 13 May 1938 · page 1
When the hearing of the charges against Frank Savage, stock and share stroker, of having conspired with others a the theft of gold valued at £15,000…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Albury Gold Cup Profit
Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 14 May 1938 · page 11
The balance-sheet for the Albury Gold Cup Meeting shows a profit- of £4567. Government taxation amounted to £1267…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Wagga Gold Cup Races Profit of £400
Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 14 May 1938 · page 15
At the meeting of the committee of the Murrumbidgee Turf Club last night the Secretary, Mr. J. F. De Groot, submitted a statement of the…
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