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Mining & the mines, 1933

4,040 stories in Sydney's papers · page 68 of 202

Victorian Organiser's Report. Good Work Among the Mines

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 3 May 1933 · page 18

Organiser W. Nicol, Vic. - Riverina Branch, reports having visited the Ballarat sewerage construction works, where there are about eighty men employed, and…

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Romance of Bulolo Gold Prospecting by 'Plane

The World's News · Wednesday 3 May 1933 · page 3

WE move quickly these days, but few move with the speed of the modern prospector. He flies. Gone are the day of the swag,…

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General Cable News. Price of Gold. London, May 2

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 3 May 1933 · page 14

The price of gold to-day was £6/4/8 an ounce fine, compared with £6/3/9 yesterday. DENUNCIATION OF BOLSHEVIKS. The Grand Duke Cyril, head of the Russian…

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More Gold Federal Figures For Last Year CANBERRA

The Sun · Wednesday 3 May 1933 · page 18

Western Australia will receive about £90,000 in gold bounty for the year 1932. The bonus will not be payable again unless the price falls…

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Big Boost for Fuel From British Coal Air Ministry Order

Referee · Wednesday 3 May 1933 · page 22

THE placing by the Air Ministry of a 12 months' order for supplies of a new type of aviation petrol made from British coal, has brought…

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MOTORING Petrol from Coal Modern Process of Hydrogenati[?] Assures Big Yield

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 3 May 1933 · page 43

FOR a variety of reasons, research into the development of fuels which can replace natural petrol, and their production in large commercial quantities, has been intensified during…

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Make Work New Notes Issue No Gold Backing Canadian Plan Ottawa

The Sun · Wednesday 3 May 1933 · page 1

THE Canadian Government has decided to erect a great public building in Ottawa at a cost of 7,000,000 dollars (£1,400,000 at…

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Gold Came From God Rockefeller Once Worked for Nothing Descended from English Kings

The World's News · Wednesday 3 May 1933 · page 17

"COD gave me my gold!" That was the statement about his enormous fortune made by John D Rockefeller,…

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Money, Mines and Markets City Gossip Gibson and Howes's Finances Sugar Co.'s Loss Sugar Co. Omits Dividend

The Sun · Wednesday 3 May 1933 · page 4

Unusually dry conditions over the Queensland sugar plantation areas of Gibson and Howes, Ltd., seriously retarded the growth of the cane last…

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New Zealand Racing News Some Speedy Two-year-olds—Trainer Cook's Calculations Astray— Spiral Is Classy Colt—Courtyard Regains Lost Laurels—Some Veterans Doing Well—Greek Gold Is Game

Referee · Wednesday 3 May 1933 · page 5

THE To Awamutu trainer, A. Cook, really thought that his own colt, D'Artagnan, would win the G.N. Champagne Stakes, and fully expected him to beat Impasto,…

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Gold Mines Development Co

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 May 1933 · page 13

Gold Mines Development Co., N.L., Trentham, reports a loss of £ 1243 on a production of 428[?]oz of gold from 962 tons of ore in the half-year ended December 31. The…

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Trouble Over Seniority Colliery in Tas

The Labor Daily · Thursday 4 May 1933 · page 6

ADVICE was yesterday received by the central executive of the Miners' Federation that a settlement had not been effected in a dispute…

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Grains of Gold

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 4 May 1933 · page 3

MANY a man would rather be called a sportsman than a Christian, and is more anxious to preserve the crease in his trousers than the grace of God in his…

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Gold-blossomed Wattle

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 4 May 1933 · page 14

Violet Madden (Wee Waa),—I think the most wonderful sights of nature's doings I ever are the wattle changes in Spring. What is more lovely or perfect than the…

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Jockey Lost Iron Gold Honour Was Unlucky

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 4 May 1933 · page 2

J. Stanton, rider of Gold Honour, who started favorite for the first division of the Fourteen-one Handicap at Kensington yesterday, lost his…

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General Cable News. Price of Gold. London, May 3

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 May 1933 · page 12

The price of gold to-day was £6/3/5 an ounce fine, compared with £6/4/8 yesterday. P. AND O. DIVIDEND…

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Canadian Inflation Currency Without a Gold Backing Ottawa

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 4 May 1933 · page 1

Canada is to erect a public building in Ottawa at a cost of 7,000,000 dollars (£1,400,000 at par), paying for it by the issue of currency without…

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Money, Mines and Markets City Gossip P. & O. Deferred Stock No Interim Dividend Lean Time for S.S.-Co

The Sun · Thursday 4 May 1933 · page 6

No interim dividend on deferred stock of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co., Ltd., is to be paid in respect of the half-year ended…

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Small Colliery Dispute Lithgow

The Labor Daily · Friday 5 May 1933 · page 4

Following the reception of information at the district office of the Western Miners, that a dispute exist at a small colliery at Mega long, members of the…

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Collieries and Shipping Companies. Operating at Newcastle and District

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 5 May 1933 · 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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