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Mining & the mines, 1931

4,249 stories in Sydney's papers · page 80 of 213

Miners' Strike Over Unpaid Sixpence. NEWCASTLE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 29 April 1931 · page 12

The refusal of a member of the Stockton Borehole Miners' Lodge to pay sixpence as an instalment towards a 3/ levy struck by the lodge for the expenses of the May Day…

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Miners' Ballot Starts To-day NEWCASTLE,Tuesday

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 29 April 1931 · page 5

THE Northern miners will take a ballot, commencing to-morrow on the question of their affiliation with the…

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Money, Mines and Markets City Gossip Profit From Paints Clifford, Love

The Sun · Wednesday 29 April 1931 · page 6

Pinchin, Johnson's Finances In 1928 Pinchin, Johnson and Co., Ltd., which owns one of the leading paint and varnish manufacturing…

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Grim Lure of Gold Tragic Discovery in Ranges Lonely Death

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 29 April 1931 · page 1

CANBERRA, Tuesday. -- After a three months' search the body of H. W. Lasseter, the discoverer of a reef in the Peterson Ranges, Central…

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Gold Search Ends in Tragedy "Possum" Lasseter Death in Cen. Aus

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 29 April 1931 · page 1

It was reported in Sydney last night that the body of Mr. ("Possum") Lasseter had been found in the ranges. Central Australia where he was…

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Genesis to Revelation the Growth of Australian Debt. No. 2—Gold and Poverty

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 29 April 1931 · page 10

THE preceding article quoted these figures for the years 1851 to 1860 inclusive: Imports £30,747,000, exports £27,433,000, or, including the value of…

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Treated As Confidential Mining Co.'s Finances Union's Request Refused Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 29 April 1931 · page 6

WHEN certain Information regarding the profits of the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company was placed before the Arbitration Court…

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Federal Session. Bank Bill. Raid on Gold Reserve. Mr. Latham's Warning. (From Our Special Representative.) Canberra

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 29 April 1931 · page 15

Discussing the Commonwealth Bank Bill in committee, in the House of Representatives today, the leader of the Opposition declared that the financial policy of the Government was one…

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Ship Gold Reserve to London Scullin's Plea £5,000,000 Due on June 30 Gullett's Wail Canberra

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 29 April 1931 · page 6

"Taete is no increase in the authorisation of the note issue in this measure," said the Prime Minister, when speaking on the…

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£30,000 German Planes : OZONE : and a 40 Per Cent. Dividend How They Fly in New Guinea Six 'Dromes and Big Fleet on Gold Line

Referee · Wednesday 29 April 1931 · page 24

FROM the fleshpots of Egypt, the Bright Lights, the "Big Smoke," they are going back to the place where, men are pilots and the malaria bug lurks in the big trees, and it rains and rains and rains, and the gold-carrying air service supplies a mere 40 per cent, "divvy."…

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The LIBRARY Crime in Fiction and in Fact an "Omnibus," and Some Useful Guides "Death Walks in Eastrepps," by Francis Bedding. "Some Persons Unknown," by Henry T. F. Rhodes. "The Works of Oscar Wilde," Collins. "A Handbook of Notes on English Authors," by Francis Jackson and P. B. Alcock. "A Book of Notes on Selected Modern English Songs," by Francis Jackson. "Prospecting for Gold," by Ion L. Idriess. A First-Class Thriller

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 29 April 1931 · page 18

OF the making of books on the subject of crime and its detection there is no end. Their popularity is amazing, but ever the supply seems equal to the demand. Of all…

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Sydney Collieries Winding Up

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 30 April 1931 · page 11

Shareholders of Sydney Collieries, Ltd., have decided that as it cannot by reason of its liabilities carry on its business, the company be wound up. Mr. W. B. Small has been…

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Gold Hoarding

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 30 April 1931 · page 11

Mr. W. R. Carpenter writes in part:— Sir,—Certain economists have stated that the hoarding of gold by America and France is the main cause of the present depression…

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Price of Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 30 April 1931 · page 11

Gold was quoted in London on Tuesday at 84/9¾ per oz fine, our correspondent cables, a decrease of a halfpenny on the price ruling since Friday…

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Hearts Of Gold

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 30 April 1931 · page 6

The cry is: "Gold -- go dig the gold; 'Tis gold our country needs!? And great is the reward, we're told, Awaiting who succeeds…

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Grains of Gold

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 30 April 1931 · page 3

IT is impossible for a Christian who practises the spiritual exercises not to come forth from them better than he went in…

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Collieries and Shipping Companies. Operating at Newcastle and District

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 30 April 1931 · page 8

The following are the names of the collieries and shipping companies, with their addresses and telephone numbers, which are at present…

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Steady Yield of Gold

The Sun · Thursday 30 April 1931 · page 20

ORANGE, Thursday.--The latest crushing by the tributors at the Manna Hill mine, Stunrtown, yielded 36oz. from 18 tons of stone. Since…

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Search for Gold. Goulburn

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 30 April 1931 · page 10

The Travis brothers, at Washaway Creek, on the Shoalhaven 30 miles from Goulburn, secured 5 dwts of small nuggets of gold, representing four days' work. The shaft at present…

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Call Evidence Senate and Gold Export Canberra

The Sun · Thursday 30 April 1931 · page 15

Should the Government adhere to its intention to submit the Commonwealth Bank Bill, authorising the export of the gold reserve to meet…

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