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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1930

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Fell Down Mine Shaft. Newcastle

Daily Examiner · Thursday 13 February 1930 · page 7

Gus Fleming, 60, while walking with a friend near a disused shaft of a colliery at the Glebe, near Newcastle, disappeared down an old shaft. He was found some…

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Coal

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 14 February 1930 · page 4

The complicated deadlock on the coalfields is easily defined— an economic difficulty, capable of settlement by reason, fanned by…

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Power Station Tragedy Man Killed in Coal Dryer. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Friday 14 February 1930 · page 4

While working in the boilerhouse at the Yallourn power station Ernest Heard, 30, was missed by his mates. After some time he was found wedged in the coal dryer…

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Coal Dispute Conference In Sydney Federal Government Attacked Ministers Defend Themselves Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 15 February 1930 · page 5

A conference, attended by three Federal Ministers, members of the State Executive of the A.L.P., the State representative on the Federal A.L.P…

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THEODORE Faces A.L.P. Heads Silly Demands Rejected Seize Mines--prosecute State Government. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 17 February 1930 · page 4

The A.L.P. Executive sat in conference until after 4 o'clock this morning, considering the demands of the A.L.P. Conference, for the…

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Let Miners' Wives Vote

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 19 February 1930 · page 4

If women were it allowed to vote with their husbands as to whether a strike should or should not take place." said Mrs. Adela Pankhurst Walsh at Cessnock…

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Coal Owners High Court Case. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 19 February 1930 · page 2

The case in which the coal owners are challenging the validity of Judge Beeby'a second interim award was continued before the Full Bench of the High Court…

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New Guinea Gold Share in Fortune Claimed Case in Equity Court. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 19 February 1930 · page 5

In the Equity Court to-day Henrich Wilke, merchant of Sydney, brought an action against Otto Rossiter to recover share in a fortune made on the New…

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MILLIONS Cost Of Strikes Coal Loss--£400 Per Man Effect Upon Other Industries. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 19 February 1930 · page 5

According to the Minister for Mines, Mr. Weaver, the losses to the miners in the northern field since 1919, caused by strike stoppages, have amounted…

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Coal or Oil at Sea Outlook for the Mining Industry

Daily Examiner · Thursday 20 February 1930 · page 8

British shipowners and marine engineers have noticed from recent utterances of Ministers that there is a realisation of the grave results for the coal mining…

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Upper Clarence Gold Dredging

Daily Examiner · Thursday 20 February 1930 · page 4

The Siamese tin mining syndicate of London has lodged an application for a number of gold leases, consisting of about 700 acres of the bed, beaches and…

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Levy for Miners Meeting of Watersiders. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 20 February 1930 · page 5

A noisy meeting of the Waterside Workers' Federation was held to-day, at which the question of discontinuing the levy of 2, on behalf of the northern…

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Coal Case High Court Reserves Judgment. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Thursday 20 February 1930 · page 4

The High Court to-day reserved judgment in the application by the coal owners challenging the validity of Judge Beeby's second interim award…

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New Guinea Gold Leases Claim Dismissed in Equity Court. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 20 February 1930 · page 5

The case in which Heinrich Wilke, merchant of Sydney, claimed half share in certain gold leases in New Guinea from the defendant, Otto Rossiter, was…

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Lang's Story 25 Gold Passes Council Referendum Bill Missingham's Hot Reply. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 20 February 1930 · page 5

When the third reading of the Bill to provide for a Legislative Council referendum was moved in the Legislative Assembly by the Chief…

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Coal Statistics Lowest Production for 21 Years Loss of Over £2,000,000. SYDNEY

Daily Examiner · Saturday 22 February 1930 · page 8

As the result of ten months of idleness in the associated mines on the northern coalfields during 1929 the output of coal in New South Wales for the year…

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Coal Steamer Aground. Iron Monarch in Spencer Gulf. Adelaide

Daily Examiner · Monday 24 February 1930 · page 3

The steamer, Iron Monarch, from Port Pirie to Port Augusta, ran aground on Tuesday near Curfew Island in Spencer Gulf. The vessel has on board 6000 tons…

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WITHDRAWN Govt's 2 Offer the Coal Dispute Another Conference Suggested. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 25 February 1930 · page 5

Cabinet to-day considered the question of the continuance of the dispute on the northern coalfields in its relation to the general position of the…

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9D. Reduction Miners Should Accept Delegate's Bombshell Shock for Trades Union Congress. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 26 February 1930 · page 4

At the Australian Trades Union Congress there was an animated discussion when a delegate suggested the coal miners should accept the 9d…

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Coal Crisis Agreement Or No Dole Premier's Statement Efforts to Settle Trouble. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 26 February 1930 · page 4

The Premier, Mr. Bavin, said to-day the conference he had proposed between the owners and miners would be called immediately…

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