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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1937

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Mine Shaft Murder Detectives' Fresh Clue. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 February 1937 · page 4

By tracing through the sustenance records the movements of an Imperial ex-servicemen, who was seen travelling the road with a woman companion…

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Stay-in Strike Miners In Hungary Gendarmes Fire on Crowd. Budapest

Daily Examiner · Friday 26 February 1937 · page 5

Gendarmes killed two and wounded three when they fired a volley into a group, of miners and women demonstrating in support of a stay-in mine…

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20 EXHAUSTED Hungarian Miners Stay-in Strike Continues. Budapest

Daily Examiner · Saturday 27 February 1937 · page 5

The deadlock continues between the management and the stay-in strikers at the Funfkirchen mine, from which 20 exhausted miners have been…

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Stay-in Strike 31 Miners Barricaded North Wallarah Trouble. Newcastle

Daily Examiner · Saturday 27 February 1937 · page 5

At the North Wallarah mine this morning 31 miners began a stay-in. strike by barricading themselves in There was a scuffle before the men…

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Struck a Mine Llandovery Castle Off The Spanish Coast 300 Passengers on Board Marseilles

Daily Examiner · Saturday 27 February 1937 · page 5

The steamer Llandovery Castle, en route to Marseilles from Gibraltar with 300 passengers, struck a mine off Cape Cerbere, where the French and…

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Strike Ended North Wallarah Mine "Stay-in" Lasts 38 Hours Excitement in Streets Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 1 March 1937 · page 5

Australia's first stay in strike ended dramatically to-night. The 30 miners who had locked themselves behind barricades in the…

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Aurie's Star All Way in Newmarket Gold Rod Again Peerage and Upoko Ariki Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 1 March 1937 · page 2

Displaying amazing speed, Auries Star led the field home in the Newmarket Handicap to-day. Pamelus made a great bid for…

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Gold Production Oyer £10,000,000 In 1936. CANBERRA

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 3 March 1937 · page 4

Although only one-third of the maximum output was achieved in 1903, production of gold in Australia during 1936 was the highest since 1918…

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Coal Miners Early Settlement Expected. Newcastle

Daily Examiner · Thursday 4 March 1937 · page 1

Although it at first seemed possible a general strike would take place on the northern coalfields owing to the management of the Dudley colliery…

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Two Miners Killed. Auckland

Daily Examiner · Thursday 4 March 1937 · page 6

Two miners, Peter Johnstone, 50, and Thomas Thomson, 38,were killed by a fail of coal in a mine at Ohai (Southland) to-day…

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Hit Mine French Ship Damaged. Paris

Daily Examiner · Thursday 4 March 1937 · page 8

The French freighter, Marie Therese [?] Borgnes was damaged by a mine to-day off Barcelona in the same sector as the Llandovery Castle struck…

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Man Killed By Fall Of Earth Only Legs Exposed Tragedy at Bo Bo Mine. North Dorrigo

Daily Examiner · Thursday 4 March 1937 · page 4

Buried under several tons of earth at the Bo Bo Gold Mining Company's mine this afternoon, Percy Christopherson a married man, of…

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Man Buried in Mine

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 5 March 1937 · page 2

Percy Christopherson (50), of Bostobrick, a married man with a wife and three children, was buried under a fall of several tons of earth at the…

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Free Labor for Dudley Colliery. Newcastle

Daily Examiner · Friday 5 March 1937 · page 5

According to the manager of the Dudley colliery, sufficient labor is now available to resume operations, but no date for the working of the colliery has been…

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Tanker Sunk Struck Spanish Mine Twenty-Three Lives Lost Only One Man Survives Perpignan (France)

Daily Examiner · Saturday 6 March 1937 · page 5

The Greek tanker Louka, carrying 3000 tons of oil, struck a mine during a storm to-day in almost the same spot as the Llandovery Castle, on…

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Gold Yield W.A.'s Staggering Total. Perth

Daily Examiner · Monday 8 March 1937 · page 5

The imagination staggers at the thought of the pile of gold containing 42,353,741 fine ounces, which has produced a sum of £197,904,864. This is…

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Outsider Wins Australian Cup Mutable 331 Pooley Bridge Outstayed Pamelus Beats Gold Rod Le Baron Is Good Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 8 March 1937 · page 2

The outsider, Mutable, won the Australian Cup at Flemington to-day, getting up in the last few strides to beat the favorite, Pooley Bridge…

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Coal Without Owner

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 12 March 1937 · page 2

At the police court on Wednesday Sergeant Ulrick applied for an order for the disposal of 2cwts of coal in the possession of the police. On April…

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Coal Consumption Growing

Daily Examiner · Friday 12 March 1937 · page 11

Speaking at a meeting of members of the Coal Industry Society in London, the chairman (Mr. W. Booth) said the disposal of coal at home was not quite…

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Metallurgist's Ruse Gold Concealed in Chocolates

Daily Examiner · Friday 12 March 1937 · page 2

Greymouth, N.Z.--A young metallurgist, employed by a gold mining company, secreted fragments of gold in some chocolates which he intended to…

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