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Mining & the mines, 1941

3,912 stories in Sydney's papers · page 47 of 196

Hit At Gold Passes

Daily Mirror · Friday 30 May 1941 · page 8

WHEN money is so necessary to win the war would it not be a fine gesture on the part of members of Parliament to pay one-third of the…

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Coal Reserves for Canberra. Canberra

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 30 May 1941 · page 7

The Minister for the Interior, Senator Foll, has authorised expenditure of about £25,000 to build up reserves of coal for Canberra's electricity supply by between…

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Mining News Oriomo Oil Ltd

Daily Mirror · Friday 30 May 1941 · page 23

Subdivision of the £1 shares of Oriomo Oil Ltd. into units of 5s each and alterations to the articles to conform with Stock Exchange…

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Mining News Oriomo Oil Ltd

Daily Mirror · Friday 30 May 1941 · page 23

Subdivision of the £1 shares of Oriomo Oil Ltd. into units of 5s each and alterations to the articles to conform with Stock Exchange…

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Mining News Oriomo Oil Ltd

Daily Mirror · Friday 30 May 1941 · page 23

Subdivision of the £1 shares of Oriomo Oil Ltd. into units of 5s each and alterations to the articles to conform with Stock Exchange…

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Mining News Oriomo Oil Ltd

Daily Mirror · Friday 30 May 1941 · page 23

Subdivision of the £1 shares of Oriomo Oil Ltd. into units of 5s each and alterations to the articles to conform with Stock Exchange…

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Australian Gold Price

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 31 May 1941 · page 11

GOLD[?] Fine ounce. £10/14/ (unch): standard ounce (22 carats). £9/16/2 (unch.) (Commonwealth Bank) SOVEREIGNS[?] £2/9/3 [?]h.)…

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Keeping Kandos Miners at Work

The Sun · Saturday 31 May 1941 · page 2

Of 30 men under notice of dismissal at Kandos No. 2 colliery, because of slackness of trade 10 are to be transferred to Kandos No. 1, and…

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Thousands of Tons of Coal Lost

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 31 May 1941 · page 6

MINERS lost £4450 in wages, and 10,600 tons of coal were lost to production, in the first week of a peculiar strike at…

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Miners Suggest Hood Fund. Give £36 for New Battleship. PERTH

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 31 May 1941 · page 15

A little mining camp at Spargoville, about 25 miles south of Coolgardie, has started a drive to raise funds for a battleship to replace H.M.S. Hood,…

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Fight for Oil of Iran Australian Gold Put Wells Into Production

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 31 May 1941 · page 10

IRAN wouldn't be so commandingly in the news to-day were it not for W. Knox D'Arcy, Galway native, who was a practising…

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Tin Mining in Malaya

Truth · Sunday 1 June 1941 · page 10

MR. A. J. KING, M.A.I.M.M., chairman of Nawng Pet Tin Ltd., writes: The war has made tin mining a business for some years to…

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He wants your kids (and mine) to walk with a swagger!

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 1 June 1941 · page 9

I'VE had a lot of letters from schoolteachers about my articles on education. They nearly…

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Man Sent To Gaol For Having Gold KALGOORLIE

The Sun · Sunday 1 June 1941 · page 4

WILLIAM DANIEL SMITH (39) clerk, Boulder, convicted to-day, was sentenced to six months and fined £200…

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Smart Lace Stitch Jumper In Harvest Gold Wool A jumper to wear with your winter suit, knitted in lace stitch and hands of stocking stitch

The Sun · Sunday 1 June 1941 · page 31

A scalloped collar gives an attractive finish to this lace stitch jumper, which is designed to fit 36 to 38 inch bust measurement. Eight ounces of three-ply wool are required. To obtain knitting directions, write to "Harvest Gold…

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Mine Youths Exempt

Daily Mirror · Monday 2 June 1941 · page 10

NO more youths working in South Coast mines would be called .up" for militia training, Said the general secretary of the Miners' Federation…

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Mine Youths Exempt

Daily Mirror · Monday 2 June 1941 · page 10

No more youths working in South Coast mines would be called up for militia training, said the general secretary of the Miners' Federation…

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Mine Youths Exempt

Daily Mirror · Monday 2 June 1941 · page 10

No more youths working In South Coast mines would be called up for militia training,said the general secretary of the Miners'Federation…

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Mine Youths Exempt

Daily Mirror · Monday 2 June 1941 · page 10

NO more youths working in South Coast mines would be called up for militia training, said the general secretary of the Miners' Federation…

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Blue Spec Mines

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 2 June 1941 · page 7

Special resolutions for the reconstruction of Blue Spet Mines, N.U., were carried at a meeting of this company in Adelaide yesterday. A new company, to be called Blue Spec Gold…

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