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Mining & the mines, 1934

4,506 stories in Sydney's papers · page 60 of 226

Gold Booms as U.S.A. Awaits Rise in Price New York

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 2 April 1934 · page 8

METAL issues on the Stock Exchange continue to rise in anticipation of the United States shortly raising the price…

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Mining. Associated Mine. Lake View and Star Purchase. (By Our Kalgoorlie Correspondent.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 April 1934 · page 11

The recent announcement that an agreement had been reached with the Lake View and Star, Ltd., for the purchase of the Associated mine at the Golden Mile, Kalgoorlie,…

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Gold Quest Fails

The Sun · Tuesday 3 April 1934 · page 1

London, Monday.--Sir Malcolm Campbell announces that he failed to discover the reputed gold reef in the Namib Desert in German…

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Collieries and Shipping Companies. Operating at Newcastle and District

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 3 April 1934 · page 8

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

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State Mine Gully. Lithgow

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 April 1934 · page 10

The Deputy-Director of Posts and Telegraphs has advised Mr. J. N. Lawson, M. p. that, 83 a result of representations on behalf of Oakey Park branch of the A.L.P., a free mail bag…

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Miners' Money. Early Settlement Unlikely. Suggested Levy

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 April 1934 · page 9

Developments in Trades Hall circles yesterday indicated that there was no immediate prospect of the miners receiving the £3250 owing to them by the Lang Labour party, as…

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GOLD. Practical Advantages of the Rise

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 April 1934 · page 8

Newspaper headlines told us recently that the sovereign, after hovering round the 38shilling mark, had at last passed the two pounds mark, and is now woith £2/0/6…

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Miners in Guard of Honor Sir William Irving at Wonthaggi

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 3 April 1934 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Monday. -- Steps may be taken by some former residents of Wonthaggi, led by Mr. James H. Wishart, who was first…

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FOR 3s CUT Mining Company Applies MELBOURNE

The Sun · Tuesday 3 April 1934 · page 11

While the Full Arbitration Court is considering its decision on the application by the unions for rescission of the 10 per cent. emergency…

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For the Coal Trade

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 4 April 1934 · page 3

Mr. C. L. Barratt, director of McIlwraith, McEacharn, Ltd., stated yesterday that vessels for carrying the coals under the new contract entered…

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Old Gold Miner's Death

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 4 April 1934 · page 5

A fine type of Australian pioneer, John Perry, died at Wollongong on March 31, aged 75 years. He was a native of Cobar and a…

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Gold and Exchange London

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 4 April 1934 · page 8

The price of gold to-day, per ounce fine, was £6152. The dollar was quoted at 5.14[?] to the £, and the franc at 78 3-16…

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France and the Gold Standard

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 4 April 1934 · page 3

The nervousness which continues to exist in France, the result of the Stavisky scandals, keeps the problems of whether that country can remain upon the gold standard steadily in the front…

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King Solomon's Mines Reported Found in Abyssinia

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 4 April 1934 · page 7

Ophir, the "lost land of goldmines, which provided most of the great wealth of King Solomon, has, it is claimed, been…

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The Victorian Worker Melbourne, Monday. Miners and Minority Movement

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 4 April 1934 · page 13

WITH the object of weakening the resistance of the miners at Wonthaggi to the never-ending wage-reducing and speeding-up policy of the management, a…

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Stole Gold, Is Charge Allegedly Smashed Shop Window

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 4 April 1934 · page 6

EACH of the [?]erendants, John Cooper, 25, mechanic, Lawrence Albert Quick, 28, bootmaker; and Frank White, 27, laborer, pleaded…

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A New Mining Award. Organiser Anderson's Report

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 4 April 1934 · page 17

Since reporting last week I have been instructed by the Secretary to prepare a case for early application to the Court for a new metalliferous miners' award…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 April 1934 · page 13

The price of gold to-day was £6/15/2 an ounce fine. FOREIGN EXCHANGES. The United States dollar was quoted to-day…

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Alleged Theft of Gold. Three Men Committed for Trial

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 April 1934 · page 10

At the Central Police Court yesterday, John Cooper, 25, mechanic, Laurence Albert Quick, 28, bootmaker, and Frank White, 27, labourer, were committed for trial on a charge of having…

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Britain and Poland. Coal Trade Neg[?]tiations. LONDON, April 3

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 April 1934 · page 13

A delegation of Polish coal-owners is coming to London to confer with British coal-owners regarding the distribution of foreign markets in order to eliminate intensive competition…

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