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Mining & the mines, 1932

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Visit to Scene of Mine Fatality

The Labor Daily · Monday 9 May 1932 · page 8

The scene of the fatality at Pelaw Main colliery, when William Butcher was killed by a fall of coal, was visited by the district Coroner, police, and jury…

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Gold Reserve. Conversion of Part to Sterling. Commonwealth Scheme Discussed. London, May 7

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 May 1932 · page 9

Discussing the motive behind the proposed bill which will authorise the Commonwealth Bank to hold part of the reserve against the note issue in sterling the "Financial News"…

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A Gold Mine Unhoppled Ones Holding Their Own

Sydney Sportsman · Tuesday 10 May 1932 · page 10

A FEATURE of the racing at Victoria Park last week was the fine showing of unhoppled…

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Australian Prick of Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 May 1932 · page 11

The price fixed by the Commonwealth Bank for gold, including jewellery, lodged at the Melbourne Mint for the week ended May 6, is at the rate of approximately £6/7/4 per…

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Country News 170 Miners Dismissed Lithgow

The Sun · Tuesday 10 May 1932 · page 10

Owing to scarcity of Railway Department orders for coal during the last few months, Wallerawang Collieries, Ltd., and Commonwealth…

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Mt. Morgan Mine. Proposed Reopening. BRISBANE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 May 1932 · page 9

Mr. H. W. Gepp, who was chairman of the former Development and Migration Commission is visiting Queensland at the request of the State Government to carry out an…

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Miners Dismissed. No Money From Railways. Lithgow

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 May 1932 · page 9

Miners and others employed at the Wallerawang colliery, to the number of 122, have received notice of dismissal, because, it is stated, no money has been forthcoming from the…

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Organ Fund Ex=students' Dance Green and Gold

The Sun · Tuesday 10 May 1932 · page 13

Several colleges to were represented at the annual ball of the Brigidine ex- students held in the Blaxland Galleries at Farmers last night, the…

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Reported Gold Find. Prospectors at Paddy's River. Moss Vale

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 May 1932 · page 10

Two gold prospectors, Messrs. Musgrave and Galvin, report that they have pegged a 20-chains claim at Paddy's River, which bears promise of yielding well. The reef is 15 to 18…

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Money, Mines and Markets £1 Ton Price of Onions Up Egg Sales

The Sun · Tuesday 10 May 1932 · page 4

At £18 a ton onions have reached a new big price for the current year. Latest advance in quotations for hen eggs has caused a perceptible slackening…

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She's Only Young, but She's Got Ideas Callous May Be Best Baby Rosen Has a Racy Filly Calvados and Gold Joy Are Fast

Sydney Sportsman · Tuesday 10 May 1932 · page 3

EVERYTHING in the garden looks rosy for Trainer J. Rosen to-day. HE has a filly called Callous engaged in the Maiden Nursery Handicap, and the way she will treat the opposition may…

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London Grows Suspicious of Friend Bruce ! Gold Reserve Profit Must Not Be Used by Govt. a Blunt Hint "Questionable Ends" Mentioned by Financiers Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 10 May 1932 · page 6

MR. BRUCE'S London friends are apparently becoming uneasy, if not suspicious, as to the use to Which gold reserve profits…

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Coal Import Restrictions

The Sun · Wednesday 11 May 1932 · page 1

London, Tuesday.--Replying to a question in Parliament, the President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Walter Runciman)said discussions were in…

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Oil From Coal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 11 May 1932 · page 13

Responding to inquiries by the Advance Lithgow Association regarding the winning of oil from coal and shale by low temperature carbonisation and hydiogenation, reports…

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Price of Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 11 May 1932 · page 13

Gold was quoted in London on Monday, our correspondent cables, at £5/12/8 per oz. fine, a fall of /3 from Saturday's price…

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Mount Coolon Gold

The Sun · Wednesday 11 May 1932 · page 4

Mount Coolon Gold Mines, N.L., reports the main shaft, sky shaft, store and general office buildings have been completed. The switchboard and No. 3 and 4 boilers are…

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Mining Notes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 11 May 1932 · page 13

Boumoya Gold Mine No Liability reports, under date May 7, as follows:—"During the past fortnight, the west crosscut was extended 14 feet, making the end 24 feet from south level. At a…

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Metalliferous Mining Committee

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 11 May 1932 · page 18

The methods employed by the Minister for Mines (Mr. Baddeley) in his desire to cripple the Australian Workers' Union have already been exposed through the…

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Prayer in Letters of Gold

The World's News · Wednesday 11 May 1932 · page 4

WORKMEN digging the foundations of a house in the Khalifa Quarter, Cairo, discovered two pieces of pottery containing, among…

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India's Gold. Export Benefits Finances

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 11 May 1932 · page 13

One of the factors which eased the condition of the London money market and helped to bring the lower interest rates indicated by the successive falls in the Bank of England…

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