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Mining & the mines, 1939

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Gold Missing £4000 Worth Disappears in Transit Prom Bendigo to Melbourne Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 25 March 1939 · page 4

Mystery surrounds the disappearance of gold worth £4000 from the custody of postal officials last night. The gold had been sent from…

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Gold Held in U.S.A. More Than Half World's Stock Washington

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 25 March 1939 · page 2

The Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Morgenthau), in a 24-paga letter to the Senate Banking Committee, requesting an exposition of the United…

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Looking Backward The Adelong Goldfield PART 34 (Copyright) an Old-time Orchestra—brass Bands—homann's Band—singers and Their Songs an Old-time Orchestra

Daily Advertiser · Monday 27 March 1939 · page 2

As in the case of all the old gold field towns dancing was a popular form of recreation at Adelong in the old days when some of the hotels, such…

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Theft of Gold Mail Robbery Puzzles Detectives Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 28 March 1939 · page 1

Confronted with several puzzling features in the theft of gold worth £4000 from 115 mail bags on Thursday night. Russell-street detectives have…

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Gold Shipments Huge Sums Sent to U.S.A. War Fears London

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 29 March 1939 · page 2

Heavy gold shipments to the United States continue, £13,000,000 having left luring the week-end, partly because, of the fears of private hoarders that…

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Doncaster and Cup Support for Gold Rod and Feminist Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 31 March 1939 · page 8

Although the volume of business transacted on the Doncaster Handicap and Sydney Cup market was not spectacular. Gold Bod was well…

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Hogan Gold Cup Retained by Coolac

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 1 April 1939 · page 10

Coolac retained possession of [?] Hogan Gold Cup by defeating Jugi[?] last Sunday by the comfortable margin of six wickets. Leading by ni[?]…

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Wagga Gold Cup Races Prize Money Totals £1,100

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 1 April 1939 · page 8

The Murrumbidgee Turf Club will hold its Wagga Gold Cup meeting at Wagga on April 26 and 27. The Club has again provided big prize…

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Looking Backward The Adelong Goldfield PART 85 (Copyright) Boston Bros.—james Gifford—elphick & PASSLOW — Lawson's Smithy — Carpenters and Builders—a Stivano Story—toefield's Shop—cohen Brothers Boston Bros

Daily Advertiser · Monday 3 April 1939 · page 2

Boston Brothers were very early established as blacksmitbs, wheel-wrights, and coachbuilders just across the bridge in Camp-street, Mr. Daniel…

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Save Lives In Mines? Pithead Radio Tests London, March 14. (By Air Mail)

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 4 April 1939 · page 6

In a Yorkshire coal-mine, half a mile below the surface, miners listened to dance music broadcast from London. They had taken a…

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Mine Dispute in 1929 Judge Blames Both Sides "Wretched Business"

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 5 April 1939 · page 7

Describing the coal-mining dispute in 1929 as "a wretched business," Judge Drake-Brockman said in the Federal Arbitration Court in Sydney on…

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Coal Prices Big Increase Revealed in Tenders Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 5 April 1939 · page 2

Strong criticism of the increase in the price of coal, as shown in tenders submitted, was made by members of the Sydney County Council to-day. It…

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Fight for Life in Mine Man Imprisoned by Ore Kalgoorlie

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 5 April 1939 · page 7

For more than 14 hours workmen have been laboring desperately to free Jack M'Carthy, a 69-year-old miner, who was trapped in a fall of ore in…

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Miners Strike in [?] BRUSSELS

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 6 April 1939 · page 4

Ten thousand mines at Charleroi, Liege and Broinage struck work as a protest against the 2 1/2 per cent. Waga cut…

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Dredging Lease Granted Mining Court Matters

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 6 April 1939 · page 4

The application by W H. S. Stew art for a dredging lease application on certain lands at Tumblong was granted by the Warden (Mr. F. Grug…

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Belgian Coal Strike Ends Brussels

Daily Advertiser · Friday 7 April 1939 · page 2

The majority of coal strikers have resumed work…

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Albury Gold Cup Races on April 21 AND 22

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 8 April 1939 · page 7

The Albury Racing Club will hold its gold cup meeting on Friday and Saturday, April 21 and 22, and following the splendid rains and the…

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Gold Cup Meeting At Wagga April 26 and 27 Nominations Close

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 8 April 1939 · page 16

The Wagga Gold Cup Meeting, the biggest racing attraction in the South, will be held on Wednesday and Thursday, April 26 and 27, and…

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Looking Backward The Adelong Goldfield PART 36 (Copyright) the Bank of N.s.w.—the Commercial Bank—the Legal Profession—old-time Medical Men—education—the Literary Institute—queen's Birthnight the Bank of New South Wales

Daily Advertiser · Monday 10 April 1939 · page 2

The Bank of New South Wales was first to establish a branch on the Adelong goldfield. The building was merely a slab and bark makeshift…

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Old Mine Shaft in Aerodrome

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 12 April 1939 · page 7

A hole 70 feet deep and 10 feet in diameter was revealed when the covering of on old shaft in the Kalgoorlie aerodrome collapsed suddenly, on…

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