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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1938

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Miners Annoyed Still out at Mt. Keira SYDNEY

National Advocate · Tuesday 18 January 1938 · page 1

Employees at the Mt. Kelra colleries. who refused their pay last Friday as a protest against the alleged lateness of hours at which the pay is made…

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Riverina Coal Deposits Mining Operations Begun by Lithgow Company Albury

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 19 January 1938 · page 6

An important new industry may be established in Riverina if the steaming quality of coal deposits now about to be worked proves satisfactory. The…

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Labor Members Invitation To Meet Miners' Officials SYDNEY, This Afternoon

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 19 January 1938 · page 1

A circular letter has been sent to all Labor members representing mining constituencies in the State and Federal Parliaments, inviting them to…

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Copper and Gold In Old Flues But Council Is Not Interested

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 19 January 1938 · page 5

Lithgow Council has gold and copper in its Vale-road depot, but it is not the least interested in a proposal that these treasures…

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Mine Disaster Colombo

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 20 January 1938 · page 1

SIXTEEN miners were reported to have been killed when the Tlumbago mines in the Kurunagebla district, Ceylon, were flooded…

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Against Lang Decision of Western Miners Will Attend Conference

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 20 January 1938 · page 3

THE western miners, who were strong for Lang in the past, are evidently not so keen nowadays. As the result of a…

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Mine Tragedy Former Resident a Victim Mr. Bertie Sedgman

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 20 January 1938 · page 3

Sympathy will be extended to Mr. William Sedgman, of Lithgow, whose brother, Bertie, aged 42, was killed in an accident at the Frogmore mine…

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Aberdare Strike Threat By Colliery Proprietors NEWCASTLE

National Advocate · Friday 21 January 1938 · page 1

Following the fourth successive stoppage of work tells week at the Aberdare Extended Collieries, the management announced that unless…

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Labor Daily Control Mining Members Support Federation No Politicians at To-day's Conference Sydney

National Advocate · Saturday 22 January 1938 · page 5

Parliamentarians representing mining constituencies were called into conference by the Miners' Federation to-day, and asked to support the…

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Turf Tattle Lady Cav Shines Gold Rod Appears Sydney

National Advocate · Tuesday 25 January 1938 · page 5

Adrian Knox Stakes candidates galloped well at Rosebery this morning. None went better than Lady Cav. Lady Cav. ridden by A. Knox,…

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Hunt For Gold

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 27 January 1938 · page 4

IT is alleged that some local optimists are convinced that gold in fairly large chunks is waiting to be unearthed at a spot not far from…

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Lure of Gold Leads Aged Prospector To Death

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 27 January 1938 · page 15

A SAGA of the outback and the lure of gold has just reached Brisbane from Mount Isa…

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Colliery Stoppage Water Question The Cause

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 28 January 1938 · page 2

A stoppage occurred at the Wallerawang, colliery, Lidsdale, this morning, owing to a dispute relating to the water question. About 107 men are…

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Awarded Gold Medal Miss Jean Batten. LONDON

Leader · Friday 28 January 1938 · page 1

Mrs Jean Battery drope that she is making any plane by [?] night. and says she [?] in England for Some time…

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Double Mining Fatality. Explosion of Geliguite. MELBOURNE

Leader · Friday 28 January 1938 · page 2

When thirteen charges of gellgolle exploded in tho New Chum Syndicate mine at Hendigo to-day, two [?] were Killed by being boried [?]…

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Demand for Coal "Satisfactory" Views of Mining Company's Chairman

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 31 January 1938 · page 4

Mr. H. De Y. Scroggie, chairman of the Newcastle Wallsend Coal Company, said at the annual meeting in Sydney on Friday that the present…

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Slight Fall Price of Gold

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 31 January 1938 · page 8

THE price fixed by the Commonwealth Bank for gold, including jewellery, lodged at Melbourne Mint for the week ended January…

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"Labor Daily" Lang's Charges Miners' Reply Sydney

National Advocate · Monday 31 January 1938 · page 3

Replying last night to charges by the leader of the A.L.P., Mr. J. T. Lang, against the Miners' Federation in connection with the "Labor Daily,"…

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Ten Miners Die Heroic Sacrifice LONDON

National Advocate · Tuesday 1 February 1938 · page 3

Then men were trapped and suffocated during a fire in the Dumreek colliery at Kilsyth. A miner gave his life in a vain effort to warn his mates…

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