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Mining & the mines, 1939

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Mrs. Waddell's Gift Passes On Husband's Gold Chain To Martin

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 26 April 1939 · page 1

Mrs. E. M. Waddell, defeated U.A.P. candidate for Waverley, yesterday offered the successful candidate, Mr. C. E. Martin (Heffron Labor), a gold chain as a memento of a strenuous campaign…

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Fortifying German Frontier. Miners Work 15 Hour-day. METZ, April 26. (A.A.P.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 26 April 1939 · page 15

All pensioned Saar miners under 65, years of age have been recalled and ordered to work 15 hours a day on frontier fortifications under the supervision of Berlin officials…

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Stocks Quiet in London Sharp Rise In Wiluna Gold LONDON, April 25

The Sun · Wednesday 26 April 1939 · page 24

The stock markets were quiet today, awaiting the Budget. Gilt-edged securities opened weaker, but recovered morning losses, and…

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Gold Pass and Chain for Mr. Martin, M.L.A. Mrs. Waddell's. Gift

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 26 April 1939 · page 14

Mrs, Waddell defeated U.A.P. candidate at the Waverley by-election congratulated Mr.C. Martin, the successful Heffron Labour candidate, by telephone yesterday and…

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Reports From the Mines

The Sun · Thursday 27 April 1939 · page 44

WILUNA GOLD CORP.--Horizontal borehole from Happy Jack shaft at depth 600ft. at 5047ft. north has intersected ore averaging 5.7dwt., estimated true width…

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Disputes Close Four Mines

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 27 April 1939 · page 7

CESSNOCK, Wednesday.--Four collieries were idle on the South Maitland coalfields today. The men at Elrington colliery, Broken…

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Australian Gold Price

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 27 April 1939 · page 6

The price fixed by the Commonwealth Bank for gold, including jewellery, lodged at the Melbourne Mint for the week ended April 21. is at the rate of approximately £8/9/6 per…

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"Can't Have It, It's Mine"

Referee · Thursday 27 April 1939 · page 23

MID-AIR BATTLE FOR THE BALL after it had rebounded from the back-board during a game at Madison Square Garden, New York, shows the spectacular high-flying seen in basketball, which is now increasing its hold…

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Work at Mines Interrupted. Lithgow

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 27 April 1939 · page 5

The Vale of Clwydd Colliery, which has been idle since Thursday to enable repairs to be made to boilers, resumed work to-day. A leak was found in a boiler at the…

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Wiluna Gold. Happy Jack Development

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 27 April 1939 · page 6

The Wiluna Gold Corporation, Ltd., reports; "Horizontal bore hole from Happy Jack shaft at depth 600ft at 5,047ft north has intersected ore averaging 5.7dwt, estimated true…

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Gold Pan's Win Reveals Improvement

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 27 April 1939 · page 25

Having his second start since being taken over by trainer George Young, Gold Pan gave his best performance yesterday to win the Progressive…

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Newcastle Coal Shipments 66,628 Tons Last Week

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 27 April 1939 · page 6

A big improvement was shown in the tonnage of coal exported from Newcastle last week. Oversea and interstate transfers totalled 66,628 tons,…

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Progressive Handicap. Gold Pan No Get Square Bet

Sydney Sportsman · Thursday 27 April 1939 · page 24

VERY few punters who were in bother up to the last got out of their "settling" worries when GOLD PAN scored in the Progressive Handicap. One…

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Wagga Gold Cup Saul's All-the-way Win Hickey Wins Treble

Referee · Thursday 27 April 1939 · page 8

COUNTRY performer Saul led all the way to win the Wagga Gold Cup yesterday. The large crowd present was thrilled when the Melbourne horse, Manu Forti, and favorite, Adonis, challenged him, but Saul just lasted long…

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Wagga Gold Cup. Saul's Good Win. Stirring Finish. Adonis Appeared Unlucky. From Our Special Representative. Wagga

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 27 April 1939 · page 13

The large crowd at the Wagga Gold Cup meeting to-day witnessed a splendid finish for the Cup when Saul, who had taken the lead as soon…

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Cherry Bar Beaten by Weight Beau Ercil Too Good in V.P. TRIAL Tel Asur Moves Freely Over Four Furlongs Gold Deposit's Form

The Sun · Thursday 27 April 1939 · page 47

Cherry Bar, who usually is ridden by a very light boy on the track, more than met her match when tried out with a big weight against Beau Ercil at Victoria Park this morning…

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Three Collieries Idle

Daily News · Friday 28 April 1939 · page 8

CESSNOCK, Thurs. -- Aberdare Central, Millfield Greta, and Elrington collieries were still idle to-day. Aberdare Central miners, in accordance…

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Javanese Miners

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 28 April 1939 · page 2

AFTER SERVING AN INDENTURE in Noumean mines, a shipload of Javanese miners, accompanied by their wives, arrived in Sydney on the liner Roggeveen on Wednesday on their way back to Java. Picture, taken yesterday, shows a…

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Accidental Death in Mine

Daily News · Friday 28 April 1939 · page 8

CESSNOCK, Thurs. -- "This is another of those inexplicable cases where no amount of extra care would have avoided the accident," said the Cessnock district…

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Briseis Consolidated. Mine Values Increase

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 28 April 1939 · page 8

At the annual meeting of Briseis Consolidated, N.L., yesterday, the chairman, Sir Harry Moxham, said that, from What he had been told recently by the manager of the…

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