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Mining & the mines, 1931

4,249 stories in Sydney's papers · page 54 of 213

Coal Board Plans Federal Crisis Affects State Scheme

Evening News · Thursday 5 March 1931 · page 4

For some days the name of Mr Malt Charlton, former leader of the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party, has been mentioned in State Labor circles for…

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Gold Reef Unearthed Rush of Prospectors to Naradhan

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 5 March 1931 · page 1

NARADHAN, Wednesday.--The township is excited following the claim of a party of prospectors that they have unearthed a reef, 10ft. wide that shows…

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The Bank Return. An Addition to Gold Reserve

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 March 1931 · page 11

An addition of £254,637 to the gold stock is shown in the return of the Commonwealth Bank as at Monday last. This is the first movement in the gold reserve since November…

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Dramatic Sequel to Mining Case Document Handed to Magistrate

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 5 March 1931 · page 9

THE case against Olive Ashley Cooper and Frederick Oertel, on charges of having circulated a false prospectus in connection with the…

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To Reopen on Monday Coalcliff Mine Employment for 102 Men Cavil To-day Thirroul

The Labor Daily · Thursday 5 March 1931 · page 6

Coaleliff miners ut a largely attended and lengthy meeting held at Thirront to-day, derided to commence work on Monday next. Only 102 men out of…

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Money, Mines and Markets City Gossip Toohey's Interim Div. 8 P.C. Per Annum Toohey's Dividend Basis

The Sun · Thursday 5 March 1931 · page 4

Interim dividend at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum has been declared by the board of Tooheys, Ltd., for the six months ended January…

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The World-Wide Depression And the Way Out the Need of a Higher Price for Gold

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 5 March 1931 · page 10

In the "Primary Producer," an enlightening and interesting article on the world-wide depression has just appeared, and the writer, "A.J.K.,"…

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Mt. Sisa Goldfields. Directors Committed for Trial

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 March 1931 · page 6

Frederick Oertel, 42, and Olive Ashley Cooper, 43, company managers, were committed for trial from the Central Police Court yesterday, each on a charge of having, while…

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Winning Gold at Manna Hill Old Mine Pays Again

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 6 March 1931 · page 1

QRANGE, Thursday.--Manna Hill mine, which had been closed down for years, and was then taken over by a new company, and shut down again, is once more a…

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Coal Bill Committee

Evening News · Friday 6 March 1931 · page 3

The State Parliamentary Labor Party met to-day and appointed a committee to report on the Coal Bill, which has been held up on account of…

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Miners’ Officials’ Latest Treachery

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 6 March 1931 · page 2

Under pressure of the rank and file of the miners, who are setting up rank and file organisational machinery preparatory to launching a strike that will close every coal mine and every metal mine in Australia and force the capitalist class and the government…

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Price of Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 March 1931 · page 11

Gold was quoted in Londo on Wedresday, our correspondent cables, at 84/10½ per oz. fine, a decrease of /1 since Tuesday of last week…

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Man Killed in Mine. Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 March 1931 · page 10

Patrick Thomas O'Brien died in hospital last night as the result of injuries sustained in a fall down the shaft of the South mine on Tucseday afternoon, owing to a stone…

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News From the Mines Metal Prices Irregular

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 6 March 1931 · page 14

Prices followed an irregular course in the industrial metal market in London on Wednesday. Lead and spelter improved a little, but tin and…

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MINERS Don’t Forget the Words of TRAITORS

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 6 March 1931 · page 1

The same gang of unprincipled scoundrels who helped the Bavin fascist thugs and the mine owners impose the slave terms of May, 1930, upon you, are now trying to place themselves at the head of the developing general miners’ strike, to be in a position to again betray you. Hoare and Kellock…

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Vic. Unemployed Gold Seekers-- Unemployed Orderly March

The Sun · Friday 6 March 1931 · page 12

RUINS (at right) of Mac-Robertson's confectionery building…

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We Enlist in the Gold Prospecting Army

The Land · Friday 6 March 1931 · page 1

SOME day, perhaps, some pen more able than mine will inscribe an epic story of the revival in gold prospecting and mining—a tale of the old…

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Money, Mines and Markets City Gossip Amalgamated Wireless Dividend Cut

The Sun · Friday 6 March 1931 · page 3

A.W.A. Pays 6 p.c. Per Annum Interim dividend at the rata of 6 per cent. per annum for the half-year ended December 31 last has…

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Gold Reserves Increase in United States. WASHINGTON, March 4

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 March 1931 · page 9

Tho Federal Reserve Board's annual report to Congress indicated that at the close of 1030 American monetary stocks of gold amounted to 4,590,000,000 dollars, within 100.000.000 of…

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Miners Not Given Fair Deal Protest From LlTHGOW (To the Editor.)

The Labor Daily · Friday 6 March 1931 · page 5

Sir.--Kindly allow me space in your paper to show how unjustly one section of the miners of this town is treated. My husband is on part time His entire…

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