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Mining & the mines, 1933

4,040 stories in Sydney's papers · page 16 of 202

General Cable News. Price of Gold. London, Jan. 26

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 27 January 1933 · page 9

The price of gold to-day was £6/1/4½an ounce fine, compared with £6/l/l½yesterday. SIR MALCOLM CAMPBELL. Sir Malcolm Campbell who has been…

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Gaoled Noted Assessor Had 20 Clerks Gold Aphrodite London

The Sun · Friday 27 January 1933 · page 1

ONE, or London s foremost insurance assessors was to-day sentenced to a year's imprisonment and ordered to…

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Wheat As a Basis of Currency Scheme Linking It with Gold and Silver

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 27 January 1933 · page 8

Cold, silver, and wheat as a monetary basis has been urged by Mr. J. F. Darling, a director of the Midland Bank, who…

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Money, Mines and Markets City Gossip Q'land Meat Export Aust. Stock Breeders Q.M.E. Co.'s Recovery

The Sun · Friday 27 January 1933 · page 3

After two years, in which losses were sustained, the Queensland Meat Export Co., Ltd., earned net profit of £18,409 on operations for the year…

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Men Bashed to Death in Grim Jungle Drama Two Whites and Three Bearers Ambushed and Clubbed Gold Seekers Administration Party Kills Three of the Attackers Canberra

The Labor Daily · Friday 27 January 1933 · page 1

PUSHING their way through unexplored country in the Morobe district of New Guinea, two white prospectors, William Naylor and…

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Old Mystery May Be Solved Body Is Found in Mine-well After 5 Years Strange Disappearance Followed Friend's Murder a Victorian Last Seen Riding a Horse in June of 1928 BRISBANE

The Labor Daily · Friday 27 January 1933 · page 12

FOLLOWING a report to the Mallanda police that the clothed body of a man had been found at the bottom of a 30ft. disused…

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Aberdare Mines Cessnock

The Labor Daily · Saturday 28 January 1933 · page 7

Aberdare Central Colliery, which was Idle all this week, will not work again next week. Aberdare Extended Colliery, after being idle yesterday and to-day…

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"Hidden Gold" (Universal)

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 28 January 1933 · page 10

MUCH to our surprise, in "Hidden Gold" TOM MIX shows that he can play other parts…

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Coal Trimmers' Picnic Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Saturday 28 January 1933 · page 7

The Coat Trimmers' branch of the Waterside Workers' Federation will hold its annual picnic at Blackalls on Saturday. February 4…

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PAPUA. No Report of Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 January 1933 · page 17

The Minister in charge of Territories (Mr. C. W. C. Marr) said yesterday that he had been advised that nothing was known in Port Moresby or at Samarai of the reported…

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Leaderless Legion The Gold Quest

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 28 January 1933 · page 19

THERE is need for the encouragement of prospecting on practical lines in N.S. Wales. The gold yield for 1932 was worth only £200,000. From…

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Mining Industry. Grafton

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 January 1933 · page 14

The Mining Warden's Court at Caramba had a very busy year. Its mining district embraces Orara goldfields to Woolgoolga on the north, Dorrigo to the west, Coffs Harbour…

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Second Victim of Explosion Balmain Mine Worker Succumbs

The Labor Daily · Saturday 28 January 1933 · page 1

David Kerr, 38, of Wilga Street, Corrimal, who was shockingly burned about the face and body in an explosion at the idle Balmain…

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News From Mines Granites West to Wind Up

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 28 January 1933 · page 9

Shareholders of Granites West, N.L., adopted, without discussion, a recommendation by the directors to wind up the company…

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Leg Crushed by Horse Accident in Mine Cebssnook

The Labor Daily · Saturday 28 January 1933 · page 1

Crushed by a horse against a skip in Elrington colliery to day, Curwen Seaston, 30, a wheeler, of Anderson Avenue, Paxton, suffered a…

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What a Gift Gold Honour Off The Course

Sydney Sportsman · Saturday 28 January 1933 · page 11

IN the second division of the Kensington 14.1 Handicap, Bob Skelton and punters in general were handed…

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ENTOMBED Two Miners Buried In Earth Fall "Slight Hope" Hobart

The Sun · Saturday 28 January 1933 · page 5

MEAGRE information has been received here of a serious accident at the North Lyell mine, in which…

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General Cable News. Price of Gold. London, Jan. 27

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 January 1933 · page 13

The price of gold to-day was £6/1/5½ an ounce fine, compared with £6/1/41 yesterday. GERMAN STEAMSHIP LINES…

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Gold Standard. Banker's Statement. (British Official Wireless.) LONDON, Jan 26

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 January 1933 · page 13

Referring to the gold standard at the annual meeting of the National Provincial Bank, Ltd., to-day the chairman (Sir Harry Goschen) emphasised that, although sooner…

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Money, Mines & Markets City Gossip Kandos Cement Co. Menzies Hotel No Interim Dividend

The Sun · Saturday 28 January 1933 · page 2

Directors of Kandos Cement Co., Ltd., report that although the half-year's operations have resulted in a profit, the board has decided not to…

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