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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1924

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News of the World. Non- Union Miners. London

Daily Examiner · Thursday 26 June 1924 · page 5

The Rhondda District South Wales Miners' Federation Committee decided that notices be tendered to all the collieries in the area on July 12 in order…

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Carter's Hill Cold Mine. Rectification of Share Register. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 June 1924 · page 4

In the Equity Court to-day Mr. Justice Street was applied to on behalf of the Carter's Hill Gold Mines (No. Liability) Company for the rectification of…

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Gold Find. Lithgow

Daily Examiner · Monday 30 June 1924 · page 2

Excellent gold has been discovered at Porter's Retreat. The reef, it is stated, as about four feet wide, and gold about the size of sixpences is showing…

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Worth More Than Gold

Daily Examiner · Thursday 3 July 1924 · page 4

Oil is worth more than gold; that is, the discovery of it in the Commonwealth, the Minister for Customs (Mr. Pratten) told a deputation on Monday…

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Ruhr Mine Workers. London

Daily Examiner · Saturday 5 July 1924 · page 5

Reuter's Cologne correspondent says the Ruhr mine workers have notified the cancellation of their agreement with the Inter-Allied Commission regarding the…

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Coff's Harbor. Coff's Harbor. Another Gold Reef

Daily Examiner · Saturday 5 July 1924 · page 2

Mrs. Branch, of Karangi, who met with a serious accident to her arm some month's ago and who had an operation performed on the injured limb by Dr. Norman Royle,…

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"Black Hand Gang." Miners Repudiate Circular. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 8 July 1924 · page 5

The Federal Council of the Miners' Federation has officially repudiated the circular issued to miners' organisations in the Commonwealth which purported…

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Turf Notes. Judging a Close Finish. Two Randwick Examples. All Gold and Royal Howard Scratched

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 9 July 1924 · page 4

Elsewhere in this column the finish between Golden Treasurer and Stony at Randwick some 18 months ago is referred to. A picture of that finish is…

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Gold Discovery in New Zealand. Wellington (N.z.)

Daily Examiner · Friday 11 July 1924 · page 4

A prospector who has arrived at Camara declares that he has discovered a 30ft. reef showing good gold values in the Upper Waitaki Valley. Some claims…

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Coal Dispute in New Zealand. Wellington (N.z.)

Daily Examiner · Saturday 12 July 1924 · page 5

Seven coal imines are closed at Chaw and 300 men are out of work owing to a dispute over the men haying to supply their own electric detonators. Coal…

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The Local Rush a Field That Failed Typical Incident of the Gold Days

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 12 July 1924 · page 4

The old mining town was all excitement. News had been brought in that payable gold had been struck in a gully only a few miles away from…

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236 Stoppages. Northern Collieries' Record. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 14 July 1924 · page 1

Up to yesterday there had been 236 stoppages this year in the Northern collieries alone. One mine or another has been closed for 788 days, and the loss…

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The Gold Mining Industry

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 16 July 1924 · page 4

Proposals that the gold mining industry should be afforded remission of taxation until the mines are working on ah economically payable basis, and that…

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Delungra Arsenic Mine

Daily Examiner · Monday 21 July 1924 · page 2

The arsenic mine about eight miles from Delungra, is opening up in a promising manner, and there is every prospect of its developing into quite a big…

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Coal Miners. Conference or Strike? Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 23 July 1924 · page 5

The central council off the Workers' Industrial Union, of which the coal miners are part, has made a demand on the proprietors of mines for the shortening of…

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Electric Coal Hoist

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 23 July 1924 · page 4

To Armidale railway yards belongs the honor of the possession of the first electric hoist in the State. The hoist is for coaling, and the whole operation…

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The Mines. Less Hours— More Wages. Workers' Demands. Sydney

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Wednesday 23 July 1924 · page 2

The Central Council of the Workers' Industrial Union, of which the coal miners are a part, has made a demand for a shortening of hours, and…

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Many Coal Mines Idle. Miners' Strike at Balmain. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 25 July 1924 · page 1

Men employed at Balmain colliery held a stop-work meeting to discuss the alleged refusal of the proprietors to concede increased boring rates…

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New Guinea. Oil and Coal. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 26 July 1924 · page 5

Mr. C. I. H. Campbell, representing the Pacific Island Investment Company, who arrived at Sydney with Mr. R. A. Hanlin to-day, said there is undoubtedly…

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Balmain Colliery Dispute Settled. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 28 July 1924 · page 4

The dispute at the Balmain colliery has been amicably settled and the men will resume work on Monday…

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