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Mining & the mines, 1931

4,249 stories in Sydney's papers · page 85 of 213

News From the Mines Rawang Tin Fields Dredge

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 7 May 1931 · page 12

The re-erection of the Rawang Tin Fields. Ltd., No. 1 dredge, which was removed to an adjacent area, has been completed, and the dredge is now working one shift…

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Hold Gold Senate May Decide That Alternative Canberra

The Sun · Thursday 7 May 1931 · page 12

Well-informed opinion in the Federal lobbies to -day inclined to the belief that the Senate is now certain to reject the Commonwealth Bank…

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Currency Problems. Gold Standard for China. VANCOUVER, May 5

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 7 May 1931 · page 9

Sir Alan Anderson, director of the Bank of England, and vice-president of the International Chamber of Commerce, discussing the warning against placing the burden of…

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Treatment of Coal Help in Britain Substantial Progress London

The Labor Daily · Thursday 7 May 1931 · page 6

IN reply to a question in the House of Commons, the Minister for Transport, Mr. Shinwell, said he had consulted with the Department of…

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World's Gold Holdings. United States in the Lead. LONDON, May 5

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 7 May 1931 · page 9

In a written reply in the House of Commons to a question by Mr. G. Lambert (Lab.), the Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Pethick-Lawrence) gave details of the world's…

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Bank Chairman Against Gold Shipment to London Sir Robert Gibson at Bar of Senate Discusses Fiduciary Bill "If Gold Goes Only Confidence Is Left" Huge Commitments Sen. Dunn Suspended Canberra

The Labor Daily · Thursday 7 May 1931 · page 5

IN evidence to-day, before the bar of the Senate, the chairman of the Commonwealth Bank Board admitted there was a further alternative to the shipping of the gold reserve to London than default. Sir Robert Gibson refused, however, to state what that alternative…

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Money, Mines and Markets City Gossip N. Z. and Aust. Land H. Jones's Dividend N. Z. and A. Land Co.'s Dividends

The Sun · Thursday 7 May 1931 · page 4

Dividend on A preference stock of the New Zealand and Australian Land Co., Ltd., at the rate of 2 per cent., is to be paid, states a cable…

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Sir Robert Gibson's Answer Is "No!" Shipping Gold Reserve Overseas Banker Tells Senate That There Is an Alternative Exchange and Inflation

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 7 May 1931 · page 7

CANBERRA, Wednesday.--Sir Robert Gibson, chairman of the Commonwealth Bank Board, expressed opposition to the proposed shipment overseas of the gold reserve when he appeared to-day before the Bar of the Senate…

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Sir Robert Gibson Appears Before the Senate. Advice Sought on Bank Bill. Are Proposed Gold Shipments Necessary? (From Our Special Representative.) Canberra

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 7 May 1931 · page 9

Senators to-day summoned the chairman of the Commonwealth Bank Board (Sir Robert Gibson) to the Bar of the Senate to obtain his advice on the Commonwealth Bank Bill, now before them, and interrogated him for two hours…

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Price of Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 May 1931 · page 11

Gold was quoted in London on Wednesday at 84/ll½ per oz fine, our correspondent cables, an increase of /1? on the day…

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Collieries and Shipping Companies. Operating at Newcastle and District

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 8 May 1931 · page 8

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

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Scottish Aust. Coal Loss

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 8 May 1931 · page 14

LONDON, Thursday.--A loss of £19,137 was incurred by the Scottish Australian Mining Co., Ltd., during 1930, against a loss of £22,082 in the…

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Mysterious Disease Outbreak in Mines at Lithgow

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 8 May 1931 · page 9

THAT a number of miners at Lithgow--particularly in the State coal mine--had been infected by a mysterious skin disease…

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Financial. Gold Export or Default. Risking Inflation

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 May 1931 · page 11

Once a country is off the gold standard, its currency, which is not backed wholly by gold, depends for its usefulness and the maintenance of its declared value on the confidence of the…

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Motor Spirit From Coal Govt. Considering CANBERRA,Thursday

The Labor Daily · Friday 8 May 1931 · page 1

IN the senate, the leader of the Government Senator Barnes, stated that consideration was being given to a proposal that the Government should…

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Mysterious Shooting Two Workless Miners Are Near Death Tragic Mistake?

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 8 May 1931 · page 1

NEWCASTLE, Thursday. -- Two unemployed miners living at Dudley figured in a mysterious shooting at Whitebridge to-night…

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State Caucus Approves Law Reform Bill. Coal Industry Board

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 May 1931 · page 8

At the conclusion of the State Parliamentary Labour caucus meeting yesterday it was officially announced that the members had approved of the Attorney-General's Law…

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Theodoreon Gold Bill What Chairman of Bank Meant "Another Way"

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 8 May 1931 · page 13

BRISBANE, Thursday.--The Commonwealth Treasurer, Mr. E. G. Theodore, has his own theory of what Sir Robert…

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Capitalist Oppression Prison Labor in Roumanian Salt Mines. Buchartst, 16/3/31

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 8 May 1931 · page 3

Last year many hundreds of miners were dismissed from the salt mines in Ocuele Mari, Ocua Lejului, Ocua Sugatag, Praid and Costini. 148 miners…

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Gold-search Gold-bug Turns Out a Gold-brick

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 9 May 1931 · page 8

"He's a regular tank when there's drink about, isn't he?" "Well, yes! except that you can fill a tank!"…

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