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Mining & the mines, 1931

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Lawn Tennis—Quest for Gold—Short Stories

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 11 March 1931 · page 1

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To Look for Gold Exodus From Melbourne Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 11 March 1931 · page 6

Men are leaving Melbourne at the rate of forty a day to prospect for gold under the Government's unemployment assistance scheme…

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Money, Mines and Markets City Gossip Weymouth's Dividend Holden's Shares Weymouth's Liquidation Dividend

The Sun · Wednesday 11 March 1931 · page 3

A first liquidation dividend of 30s a share, has been made payable to shareholders of Weymouth's, Ltd., whose names were on the register…

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U.S. Gold L0ng-term Lending Banks to Move New York

The Sun · Wednesday 11 March 1931 · page 1

A virtual invitation to Australia, Germany and other countries to enter the American market for their foreign loans is…

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The Phantom Fortu Ne Finder Lost in the Snow... Lured to Death by a Grey Shadow and a Glitter of Gold

The World's News · Wednesday 11 March 1931 · page 28

FROM trapping-post and prospector's shack for a hundred miles the men had come in to the Hudsom Bay Company's…

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A Turf Record To Be Broken Who Has Longest Sequence of Turf Wins? Phar Lap's Prospects Looked Good, But His Run ended at 14 Desert Gold and Gloaming Share Record

Referee · Wednesday 11 March 1931 · page 2

How difficult it is to lower some of the old records of the Turf. It took 30 years to eclipse Carbine's stake-winning record of £29.476, established before the end of last century. Desert Gold set up a record sequence of 19 wins in first-class and weight-for-age…

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The LIBRARY Tales, Travels, and Good Deeds in a Naughty World "Up the Ladder of Gold," by E. Phillips Oppenheim. "The Flamenco," by Lady Eleanor Smith. "The Trader's Wife," by Jean K. Mackenzie. "Through Other Lands," by John J. Gay. "God in the Slums," by Hugh Redwood. Mr. Oppenheim Again

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 11 March 1931 · page 14

LAST week I suggested that Mr. E. Phillips Oppenheim was perhaps rather overdoing it in the matter of "thrillers;" and, behold, here he is again with another one! There must be…

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Coal War Hint Court Hears of Miners' Fears

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 12 March 1931 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Wednesday. -- That the coal war between the northern and southern collieries of New South Wales would be intensified if…

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N.g. Gold Deposits Acquires Hill End Mine

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 March 1931 · page 11

New Guinea Gold Deposits, N.L., has purchased the Belmore syndicate's mine and lease of 10 acres situated on the southern end of Hawkins Hill at Hill End, New South Wales…

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Gold Loans

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 12 March 1931 · page 6

Though its importance may be over-estimated, an important cause of the world depression is the accumulation of gold in the United…

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The Gold Seekers

The Labor Daily · Thursday 12 March 1931 · page 4

Sir,--I would like to express my opinion in regard to gold diggers. I am led to believe that there are some young men under tuition in the School…

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Price of Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 March 1931 · page 11

Gold was quoted in London on Tuesday at 84/11½ per oz fine, our correspondent cables (an increase of three farthings on the day)…

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Albury Gold Cup

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 12 March 1931 · page 2

THE trophy attached to the Albury Cup this year is a solid gold cup, valued at 100 guineas, the gift of Mr. Sol Green, who has always…

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Grains of Gold

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 12 March 1931 · page 3

REMEMBER that you have only one soul; that you can die but once; that you have but one short life; that there is but one glory, and that…

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Hospitals Hit By Coal Merger CESSNOCK

Evening News · Thursday 12 March 1931 · page 7

Cessnock and Kurri Hospitals have been advised that as a result of the merging of Abermain and J. and A. Brown coal interests the subsidy…

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Wage Reduction. Coal Industry. Application to Court. MELBOURNE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 March 1931 · page 9

Among the applications for reductions of 10 per cent. in wages which came before the Full Court of the Arbitration Court to-day was one by the Southern Collieries…

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The Quest for Gold. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 March 1931 · page 7

Sir,—Allow me to congratulate Mr. C. Barclay Smith on his articles on alluvial prospecting. He is doing a great favour to our unemployed in expressing his knowledge to others,…

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Huge Coal Bill £158,922 in Tenders; 1710 to 205 12 Ton

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 12 March 1931 · page 7

Tenders for the supply of 165,800 tons of coal, involving £158,922, were yesterday accepted by the City Council Electricity Committee…

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Money, Mines and Markets City Gossip Southern Blue Metal Trading Loss Metal Company's Reverses

The Sun · Thursday 12 March 1931 · page 4

Net trading loss of £827 is disclosed in accounts of Southern Blue Metal Quarries, Ltd., for the year ended October 31 last, which are to…

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In Equity. (Before the Chief Judge, Mr. Justice Harvey.) Insurance Company's Funds. Tyldesley Colliery, Ltd., v the State Treasurer and others

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 March 1931 · page 6

Provisional judgment was given in the suit instituted by the Tyldesley Colliery, Ltd., of Cullen Bullen, against the State Treasurer and others, to recover £5630, being the…

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