MINERS FLY TO RACES
BRISBANE (By Air Mail) Some Mount Isa miners fly 2000 mile* each week to Brisbane and back to have a flutter at the races. The miners, who work in the great silver-lead mining city on the borders of Queensland and the Northern Territory, crowd the planes each week-end when they have three days off and have their pockets burning with their wages plus £9/10/“lead ixtnus”—a reward calculated on the profits made from the sale of lead by the mine owners.—Reuter.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22822, 17 December 1948, Page 3 (Supplement)
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84MINERS FLY TO RACES Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22822, 17 December 1948, Page 3 (Supplement)
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