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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1928

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Sydney Mining Man Dead. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 29 May 1928 · page 4

Charls Henry Kerry, who was well known in business circles in Sydney, and who possessed large interests in the tin[?]ning industry in Siam and the Malay…

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Dorrigo Antimony Mine Discovery to Be Exploited Formation of Syndicate

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 30 May 1928 · page 3

A public meeting was held in the Memorial Hall, Dorrigo, on Friday afternoon last week to decide on the formation of a syndicate to develop the above…

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Golden Horseshoe Once Rich Mine to Be Worked Again. Perth

Daily Examiner · Saturday 2 June 1928 · page 4

It was announced at Perth that a new company is being formed to acquire the Golden Horseshoe mine, at Kalgoorlie, with a capital of £100,000. The Golden…

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Disappeared Well-known Mining Man. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 4 June 1928 · page 5

Police are inquiring into the circumstances surrounding the whereabouts of Thomas Henry Palmer, managing director of the South Comet zinc and lead mine…

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Miners Protests Want Same Wages and Conditions. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 June 1928 · page 1

At aggregate meetings of miners held on the Northern coalfields yesterday, vigorous protests were made against any reductions in wages or alterations in…

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Colliery Closed No Money to Pay Miners. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 7 June 1928 · page 7

The Miners Federation has been informed that the Sydney Harbor Colliery, Ltd.,Which controls the Balmain colliery, will probably go into liquidation…

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Missing Mining Man Body Floating in Harbor. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Thursday 7 June 1928 · page 7

The body of Thomas Henry Palmer, managing director of the South Comet Zine and Lead Mine Coy, was found floating off the pier at St. Kilda to-day…

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Miners' Rights and Forest Encroachment

Daily Examiner · Thursday 14 June 1928 · page 4

A public meeting, of miners was held in Tingha to protest against the manner in which miners are being treated through the encroachment of the Forest…

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Recovering British Trade Coal and Steel. London

Daily Examiner · Thursday 14 June 1928 · page 5

In the House of Commons, Sir Phillip Cunliffe Lister, President of the Board of Trade, made an interesting survey of British trade…

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£1,750,000 Contract Coal for Railways. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 14 June 1928 · page 4

The biggest contract for coal, ever let in Australia, will shortly be finalised by the New South Wales Railway Commissioners. Approximately 1,000,000 tons of…

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Local and General. Lower Beilsdown Mine

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 15 June 1928 · page 2

Mr. T. Maher, promoter of the Lower Beilsdown mining syndicate, informed us during the week that money was coming in fairly well. To date…

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Another Gold Find in Papua

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 15 June 1928 · page 4

During the latter pan of the week (says the Rabaul "Times" of May 18th) Rabaul has been alive with rumors regarding a rich gold strike…

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The "Bag of Gold" Story

Daily Examiner · Monday 18 June 1928 · page 4

The following appeared in a recent issue of the Dungog "Chronicle" regarding a paragraph in last issue in reference to an incident related in the…

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Miners' Federation Policy of Conciliation Adopted. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 21 June 1928 · page 3

The Interstate convention of the Miners' Federation decided that its policy should be one of conciliation in the matter of dealing with various disputes. While…

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Miners Federation Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 23 June 1928 · page 7

The interstate conference of the Miners' Federation decided that the central governing council of organisat on was the only body competent to sanction a…

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Fall of Coal Miner Crushed to Death. Auckland

Daily Examiner · Saturday 23 June 1928 · page 5

Two hundred tons of coal fell on Gavin Cockburn, a miner, at the Nightcaps mine, when the roof collapsed. The body was shockingly crushed and death was…

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Compensation for Mining Surveyor Important Decision. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 23 June 1928 · page 4

An important decision was [?] the Workers' Compensatios C[?] to-day in the case in which Ge[?] sell Turner, mining suryeyo[?]…

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C.R.J.C. RACES Gold Cup Meeting Weights for Big Events a Brief Review

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 27 June 1928 · page 2

The weights for the three big events at the Clarence River J.C. Gold Cup meeting, on July 18 and 19, were declared yesterday afternoon, by Mr. O. M…

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SAVED £7000 on City Coal Contracts. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 28 June 1928 · page 5

It has just transpired that early in their administration the Civic Commissioners had difficulty in the matter of coal supplies. They were threatened with less…

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Lower Beilsdown Mine

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 29 June 1928 · page 2

A general meeting of those who have taken or intend to take shares in the proposed Beilsdown Mining Company is to be held in the Memorial Hall…

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