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Mining & the mines, 1938

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Newcastle Coal Trade 51,650 Tons Shipped Last Week

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 20 April 1938 · page 4

Coal exports from Newcastle were brisk last week. Shipments were only 9000 tons less than the quantity shipped the week before. Trading with…

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Sterilisation of Gold. Abandonment of Policy. an Announcement at Washington. Washington, April 19

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 20 April 1938 · page 17

The Secretary to the Treasury. Mr. H. Morgenthan, jun., announced the shandonment of the U.S.A. gold sterilisation policy, thus opening the way for sweeping…

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Polo Gold Cup. Tournament Opens. Two Exciting Matches. N.Z. and Queensland Teams Win

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 20 April 1938 · page 22

Four attractive matches, two being evenly contested, rewarded visitors to the Australasian Gold Cup polo tournament at the Kyeemagh polo ground,…

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Goldfields Strike. Light and Power Threatened. Foreigners Blamed. Kalgoorlie

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 20 April 1938 · page 24

More than 400 striking Kurrawang woodline workers, of whom more than 80 per cent. are foreigners, will hold a meeting to-morrow to decide whether…

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Australian Price of Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 April 1938 · page 13

The price fixed by the Commonwealth Bank for gold, including jewellery, lodged at the Melbourne Mint for the week ended April 15, is at the rale of approximately £7/18/5 per…

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Highlighted with Gold Kid

The Sun · Thursday 21 April 1938 · page 25

Anyone wanting the directions for making [?]unusual [?] forwarding [?]her [?]…

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British Coal Exports London

The Labor Daily · Thursday 21 April 1938 · page 5

THE value of British coal exports in the first quarter of 1038 was £8,831,784, compared with £7,462.290 in the same quarter of the previous…

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News Of The World From Daily Telegraph Correspondents Briton Beaten Senseless Chinese Coal Miners Amok Capture 4 Members Of Staff HONGKONG

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 21 April 1938 · page 3

A BRITISH coal mine executive was beaten unconscious by Chinese strikers…

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Gold Leases Case. to Be Heard at Darwin

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 April 1938 · page 7

A case arising out of the Tennant Creek gold mining leases is set down for hearing before Judge Wells at Darwin on Tuesday next. The plaintiffs, Mr. Reginald James…

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Furry Gold to Start a Farm London, March 30

The Sun · Thursday 21 April 1938 · page 4

HAVING secured a pair of Royal Chinchillas at a cost of £640 the pair, Mr. Fletcher Roberts, a New Zealander. has brought them to England and…

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Polo Gold Cup Tourney in Sydney Caramut Eliminated From Tourney

Referee · Thursday 21 April 1938 · page 22

CARAMUT, the crock Victorian polo team, were eliminated in the first round of the Centenary Gold Cup tournament at Kyeemagh, North Brighton, on Tuesday. The Queensland team had to fight hard to defeat the N.S.W. second team; the New Zealanders, playing…

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Gold Rod's Record Fast Rosebery Gallop In The Rain L'aiglon Spurts

Referee · Thursday 21 April 1938 · page 7

ROSEBERY is Sydny's wet-weather truck, and when the rain came last night Randwick trainers who wanted to gallop horses, decided to go…

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Sprinters. Cropper Plate Clash. Ajax, Gold Rod, and Pandava. Great Race Likely

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 April 1938 · page 15

A great race is likely in the C. W. Cropper Plate, of six furlongs, at Randwick on Saturday. The field is to include Ajax, the…

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Serious Dispute in West Woodcutters' Action Will Render 2600 Miners Idle Golden Mile Kalgoorlie

The Labor Daily · Thursday 21 April 1938 · page 6

IN defiance of the A.W.U. and ALP., the Lakeside woodcutters at a stormy meeting to-day decided not to return to work unless the Goldfields…

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Gold Rod Makes Track Record Dash Over Half-mile at Rosebery Final Effort For Cropper Plate Engagement L'aiglon Goes Well

The Sun · Thursday 21 April 1938 · page 47

Gold Rod to-day made a track record at Rosebery for half a mile when he had his final gallop for his Cropper Plate engagement. Kept 30 feet from the rails on the main course,…

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Gold Yields

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 22 April 1938 · page 17

NEW LONG TUNNEL--Crushed 60 tons for 8oz. 4dwt. of gold and 2 tons pyrites 3 ewt, of blanketings. SHEEPSHEAD.--Crushed 70 tons of dump…

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Queensland Gold Yield

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 22 April 1938 · page 16

The Queensland gold yield for the first quarter of the year was 33,168 fine ounces, valued at £140.889. This compares with 25,651oz., valued at £108.959. for the same period last…

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Miners May Resume Kalgoorlie

The Labor Daily · Friday 22 April 1938 · page 6

Out since March 17 over the alleged victimisation of one man, 220 miners at the Lancefield Mine at Beria 160 miles north of Kalgoorlie,…

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Oil From Coal Plan Supported

The Labor Daily · Friday 22 April 1938 · page 6

THE Federal and State Governments will again be approached and urged to investigate further the possibility of extracting oil from coal…

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King's Gold Medal for Midshipman

The Labor Daily · Friday 22 April 1938 · page 4

The Administrator, Lord Hunting-field, at Admiralty House, yesterday, presented the King's Gold Medal for the year 1937 to Cadet-Midshipman…

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