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Mining & the mines, 1938

4,311 stories in Sydney's papers · page 26 of 216

Triton Gold Mines. Dividend Programme Announced

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 24 February 1938 · page 13

The chairman of Triton Gold Mines N.L. Sir Colin Fraser,, said at the annual meeting in Melbourne yesteiday that budgeting now provided for the payment of three…

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Miners' Fear of Paralysis

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 24 February 1938 · page 7

CESSNOCK, Wednesday. -- A youth who lives at Weston and is employed at Elrington Colliery, was found to be suffering from infantile paralysis yesterday…

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Collieries and Shipping Companies Operating at Newcastle and District

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 24 February 1938 · page 1

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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Lottery Luck Of Miners Was Awry LITHGOW

The Labor Daily · Thursday 24 February 1938 · page 1

WHEN winding up the affairs or their lodge, Oakey Pork miners had a problem to know what to do with approximately £28. which they…

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Tooth's Gold Cup to Jack Milne Wilkinson Pipped

Referee · Thursday 24 February 1938 · page 22

WORLD'S speedway champion, American Jack Milne, added Tooth's Gold Cup to his already imposing list of trophies, when…

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Wattle Gulley Gold. Half-year's Profit £32,177

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 24 February 1938 · page 13

After providing £387 for depreciation. Wattle Guilty Gold Mines, N.L., Victoria's leading gold producer in 1937, earned a net profit of £32,177 for the half-year ended…

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Mining the Share Market. Recovery in Barriers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 24 February 1938 · page 13

Barriers made a decided recovery in the mining share market yesterday, the advanced prices for base metals overseas providing stimulus for wider interest, which was not…

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General Cable News. Price of Gold. London, Feb. 23

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 24 February 1938 · page 12

Gold was auoted to-day at £6/19/10½ an ounce line, compared with £6/19/9½ yesterday. BASE METALS…

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Stoppage Caused by Paralysis Miners Prefer To Lose Work Reassured Cessnock, Wed

The Labor Daily · Thursday 24 February 1938 · page 1

ELRINGTON miners preferred to lose a day's work-to-day rather than risk infection by infantile paralysis…

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Novels And Novelties Girls, Jade Mines And Guns In China Author Has a Lively Imagination

The Labor Daily · Thursday 24 February 1938 · page 4

PRISON MARSHALL lets his imagination travel far and wide to find the characters for his adventure stories. In a recent novel he discovered a lost race of comely women and brave men at the South Pole, and in his most recent book, "The White Brigand," he takes us to a…

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Miners Help

The Labor Daily · Friday 25 February 1938 · page 5

Following upon the recent decision of the Central Executive of the Miners Federation at its lost meeting to donate £100 for the support…

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Caledonian Collieries Ltd. Improvement, But No Dividend

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 25 February 1938 · page 13

Caledonian Colleries Ltd., announces that, although the result of operations for the year ended December l8 showed an improvement over that for the previous year, the profit was…

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Mining Notes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 25 February 1938 · page 13

MT. PARIS TIN MINES, N.L.—Professor Cotton has left Sydney to make a thorough geological Investigation of the companys areas, His report should be available towards the end of March…

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No 'Dividend From Caledonian Coal

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 25 February 1938 · page 17

Although the result of operations of Caledonian Collieries, Ltd., for the year ended December 18 showed an improvement, on those of the previous year the…

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Sth. Miners Seek Registration Application Opposed

The Labor Daily · Friday 25 February 1938 · page 5

Objection, was raised before the Industrial Registrar yesterday to an application by the southern branch of the Miners' Federation for…

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Five Mines Are Idle Cessnock

The Labor Daily · Friday 25 February 1938 · page 5

Aberdare Colliery was idle to-day. Wheelers, on arrival at the pit head, B Protested against the condition of I some horses. It was while they…

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Admiring Her Father's Gold Cup

The Land · Friday 25 February 1938 · page 3

Betty, twelve-year-old daughter of the Master Farmer Competition winner, Mr. W. T. Lewis, admiring the handsome gold cup, valued at 25 guinea's, after her father had received it from the Minister for Agriculture at Wagga. On the right is Mrs. Lewis, without whose unceasing help, Mr. Lewis…

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Aust. Gold Production Trebled Canberra

The Labor Daily · Friday 25 February 1938 · page 5

Australian gold production has trebled since 1929, while production for 1937 was the highest recorded since 1917.The total production last…

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£1100 for Wagga Gold Cup Meeting

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 25 February 1938 · page 22

Prizemoney totalling £1100 will be offered at the Wagga Gold Cup meeting on May 4 and 5. Principal race will be the Gold Cup, of…

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British Coal Output Improvement Shown London

The Labor Daily · Friday 25 February 1938 · page 1

AN improvement in the British coal industry during 1937 is shown in the statistics published by the Board of Trade. The output of…

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