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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1938

311 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 11 of 16

Maclean Beach Mining

Daily Examiner · Saturday 17 September 1938 · page 8

In connection with beach mining operations at Angourie, being carried out by the Titanium Mining Co., six new trucks have been landed at…

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Food Supplies for Sinking Miners Warning To Wholesalers Coupons From Storekeepers Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 17 September 1938 · page 5

Rumors were current to-day that the wholesale stores in the Newcastle and Wollongong districts may refuse to accept miners' strike…

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Gold Cup Stolen From Art Gallery. Adelaide

Daily Examiner · Monday 19 September 1938 · page 5

A gold cup worth £100, and coins valued at £5410, were stolen from the Art Gallery yesterday. Entry was gained by smashing a…

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Relief Scale for Striking Miners Fixed At Conference Threat to Grocers Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 19 September 1938 · page 5

Details relating to the issue of relief payments to the striking coal miners were decided at a conference of district officers and members of…

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Rodborough Trial for Epsom Silver Standard's Reversal Gold Rod and Aeolus Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 19 September 1938 · page 3

There was a stirring finish to the Rosehill Guineas, the principal event at the Rosehill spring meeting this afternoon, when Aeolus gained the…

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Gold Rod Metropolitan Engagement Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 20 September 1938 · page 6

Whether Gold Rod will start in the Metropolitan Handicap will depend on the horse's condition and the state of the weather…

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Coal Strike Order by Judge Compulsory Conference Fed. Arbitration Court Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 20 September 1938 · page 6

The Industrial Registrar of the Federal Arbitration Court, acting under the instructions of Chief Judge Dethridge, to-day summoned a…

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Coal Strike N.C.S.N. Shipping Service Can Maintain Schedules. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 20 September 1938 · page 6

The North Coast Steam Navigation Company, Limited, has announced that all units of its fleet trading between Sydney and the Northern Rivers will…

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Coal Strike Compulsory Conference Discuss All Claims Policy of Miners Delegates Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 September 1938 · page 6

Unless an undertaking is given by the Federal Arbitration Court in Melbourne on Friday, when the compulsory conference between the…

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Traders Worried Coal Shortage in Brisbane. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 September 1938 · page 6

A serious view of the coal strike was taken at the annual meeting of the Queensland Employers' Federation today…

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No Bill Filed Bendigo Gold Lease Case. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 September 1938 · page 5

No bill will be tiled against Frank Savage, stockbroker, of Melbourne, who was committed for trial on a charge [?] having between November 1, 1935. and…

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Knife Wound Coal Lumper's Death Clerk For Trial Evidence at Coroners Inquiry Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 September 1938 · page 6

The City Coroner to-day committed Horace Lynch, 45, clerk, of Regent street, city, for trial on a charge of having murdered William John Joseph…

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Death Roll in N.S.W. Coal Mines. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 September 1938 · page 5

Between 1928 and 1937, inclusive 120 persons lost their lives in coal mines accidents in New South Wales. Nonfatal accidents totalled 601…

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Blue and Gold Dance

Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 September 1938 · page 4

The C.W.A. Younger Set will hold their annual Blue and Gold dance tonight in the Criterion Hall. The members have worked extremely hard to…

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"One-man Mine."

Daily Examiner · Friday 23 September 1938 · page 12

The smallest of all possible small mines producing coal since the miners stopped work has become involved, as a result of the thoroughness with which…

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Coal Strike Fed. Govt Attacked Lyons' Warm Reply Upholds Arbitration Principle Canberra

Daily Examiner · Friday 23 September 1938 · page 5

Charging the Federal Government with unwillingness to take any steps to settle the coal strike, the Leader of the Opposition, Mr. Curtin…

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Railway Timetable Delayed by Coal Dispute? Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 24 September 1938 · page 4

The Railway Department has not yet determined when it will issue the summer time-table. The date will depend largely on the outcome of the…

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Coal Dispute Conference Fails Judge Makes An Offer Inquiry When Work Starts Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 24 September 1938 · page 5

A compulsory conference between the colliery proprietors and representatives of the Miners' Federation and Federated Engine Drivers and…

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Strike Breakers? Warning by Minister Non-Union Labor for Some Northern Mines Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 26 September 1938 · page 5

Reports that strike breakers had been sent to the coalfields drew strong personal denunciation from the Minister for Labor and Industry, Mr…

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Strikers Hundreds on March Visit Small Coal Pits Men Continue at Work Newcastle

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 27 September 1938 · page 4

To-day large bodies of striking miners visited small coal pits where a few men were employed hewing coal and tried to persuade the men…

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