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Southern Highlands · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1930

12 stories in Southern Highlands's papers

Barrallier Mine Idle—store Robbed

The Southern Mail · Friday 17 January 1930 · page 3

Sheep dipping is in progress in this locality and in some cases the operation ii finished. As a result of industrial trouble…

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Too Much Coal

The Southern Mail · Friday 21 February 1930 · page 1

SURELY the strangest item of news appearing in our metropolitan papers for some time is the announcement that…

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Gold at Bundanoon Lease Taken Up

The Southern Mail · Friday 28 March 1930 · page 3

The Scrutineer learns on fairly reliable authority that Mr. Patrick Doyle, after eleven and a half years' search, has obtained a survey of 50…

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Gold Medal for Miss Brennan

The Southern Mail · Friday 23 May 1930 · page 2

At Bowral Choral Society's social in honor of Mr. Brake on Tuesday, Mr. Dunwoodie spoke in glowing terms of the services rendered to the…

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Prespesting for Gold

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 12 July 1930 · page 4

When the Minister for Mines and Foycate launched a gold prospecting scheme recently, he did so with a view to providing immediate relief…

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Gold Worth £300 Found in a Hollow Log

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 16 July 1930 · page 2

Three ingots of gold, weighing 75¼ ounces,, and estimated to be Worth £3[?]0, were found on Monday in a hollow in a wood heap…

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Gold Rush Great Excitement at Yerranderie

The Southern Mail · Friday 12 September 1930 · page 5

Our Barrallier correspondent writes:—The finding of coarse gold of food quality, by a prospector in the wild…

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Gold Rush Great Excitement at Yerranderie

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 13 September 1930 · page 2

Our Barrallier correspondent writes:—The finding of course gold of good quality, by a prospector in the wild…

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B.d. Hospital Treatment of Miners

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 20 September 1930 · page 4

The August meeting of the Board of Directors was held at the hospital last week. Mr. Boardmen was in the chair…

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Miners' Relief

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 10 December 1930 · page 2

At the last shire council meeting the clerk reported that Cr. Starkey and the officers had received a deputation of three representatives of…

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Miners' Relief Suggested Grant for Medway Men

The Southern Mail · Friday 12 December 1930 · page 4

At last meeting of Wingecarribee Shire Council the Clerk reported that Cr. Starkey and the officers had received a deputation of three…

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Tales of the Old Days and Other Australianities Jumping a Mine

The Southern Mail · Friday 12 December 1930 · page 3

Mine-jumping was a great enterprise in the days when gold mining constituted one of our important industries. How many a row started…

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