Photos Tell Story of Taranto Raid Extensive Damage To Italian Warships (Special to "The Mine?") LONDON, November 25
Barrier Miner · Tuesday 26 November 1940 · page 3
TAKEN at Taranto 11 days ago, four photographs, which show clearly the damage done to the Italian fleet in the daring R.A.F. raid on November 11, have been released for publication…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Munitions Works Conditions No Agreement at Conference B.I.C. Plans to Go Before Directors of Mining Companies
Barrier Miner · Wednesday 27 November 1940 · page 3
NO agreement on hours of work or payment of men who would be employed in a proposed munitions factory in Broken Hill was reached at a conference this morning between representatives of the munitions industry, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →South Mine Excursion
Barrier Miner · Friday 29 November 1940 · page 1
ALTHOUGH a considerable amount will be spent by the South Mine Picnic Committee in entertaining South mine employees' children at South…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →31 Coal Miners Entombed
Barrier Miner · Monday 2 December 1940 · page 3
CADIZ (Ohio), December 1.—A gang of weary rescue workers is toiling in debris-filled passages at the Ohio and Pennsylvania Coal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Inter-mine Tennis
Barrier Miner · Monday 2 December 1940 · page 2
Following are the Inter-Mine Tennis Association competition results:O'Leary d. Hoare in the semi-final of the handicap singles, thus securing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining Tenement Forfeited
Barrier Miner · Monday 2 December 1940 · page 1
On the application of James Harold Thompson, the warden (Mr. A. B. Collins), in the Wardens Court today. ordered the forfeiture of mining…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →News In Brief Miners To Discuss Taxes
Barrier Miner · Monday 2 December 1940 · page 1
CESSNOCK, Monday.—Cessnock district miners' lodges decided yesterday that a special meeting of the miners' board of management should…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wages for Hydraulic Filling Employees Quick Shift Work Mine Managers and W.i.u. in Conference
Barrier Miner · Wednesday 4 December 1940 · page 3
CLAIMS for an increase in the rate paid men engaged on hydraulic filling underground at the South mine were made by representatives of the W.I.U. when they met the Mining Managers' Association in conference this…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lodging The State Railway Staff Commissioner As "Mine Host" Much Capital Invested (Contributed)
Barrier Miner · Thursday 5 December 1940 · page 4
THE uninitiated must wonder what happens to the driver, fireman or guard of a long distance train at the end of his outwards trip. Booked on at, say. Sydney to run to Bathurst, train crews, because of Award provisions, cannot be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ship's Loss Due to Mine Graphic Stories By Survivors SYDNEY
Barrier Miner · Saturday 7 December 1940 · page 3
STORIES told by survivors and a state nent made by the Minister for the Navy, (Mr. Hughes) indicate that the loss of a small vessel off the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Central Power Plant Revelation Meets Demands Qf All Mines Largest Diesel Plant In British Empire
Barrier Miner · Saturday 7 December 1940 · page 30
POWER requirements of the three productive, mines have been supplied by a central power station since'September,.1931. The station is owned and operated by the Western New South Wales Electric Power Proprietary Ltd., all the shares of which are held by the consumer…
Continued on Trove, page 30 →Broken Hill Mining Industry Amazing Production Population of 28,000 Depends on Industry
Barrier Miner · Saturday 7 December 1940 · page 6
As an individual producer of silver, lead and zinc, the Broken Hill orebody is the richest for its size yet discovered. During a period of 56 years, 54,000,000 tons of are have been mined, and present are reserves exceed 11,500,000 tons,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mining Town In The Spinifex Romantic Story Of Tennant Creek Water Sold At 6/- Per 1000 Gallons
Barrier Miner · Saturday 7 December 1940 · page 12
I REMEMBER hearing and reading about it when I was at school—Tennant Creek—one of those lonely and isolated relay stations on the great overland telegraph line between Adelaide and Darwin. It figured more…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Mining Managers' Examination
Barrier Miner · Monday 9 December 1940 · page 2
The Board of Examiners of Mine Managers appointed under the Mines Inspection Act, 1901, have submitted to the Minister for Mines their report…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Damaged Ship Safe In Port; Under Tow Of Two Tugs Struck Mine in South Australian Waters Adelaide
Barrier Miner · Monday 9 December 1940 · page 3
THE overseas vessel, which struck a mine in South Australian waters on Saturday night, reached port this afternoon under tow of tugs. It is believed that three members of the crew are missing, the belief being based…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Christmas Holiday Pay £40,800 From Three Mines
Barrier Miner · Tuesday 10 December 1940 · page 3
CHRISTMAS holiday pay amounting to £40,800 will be paid to employees at the Zinc Corporation. North and South…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sketch Of Career Of New Miners' Union Secretary
Barrier Miner · Wednesday 11 December 1940 · page 3
MR. G.W.S. GRANT, recently-elected general secretary of the Miners' Federation is the youngest secretary to be elected to the position since the Federation began. He was born in Newcastle, N.S.W., is 31 years of age, and has resided at Kurri Kurri since his boyhood days…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Man Killed at Colliery
Barrier Miner · Saturday 14 December 1940 · page 3
SYDNEY, Saturday.— One man was killed and another injured when an extensive fall of coal occurred today, at Pelton Colliery in the Cessnock area…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Silver Peak Mine
Barrier Miner · Saturday 14 December 1940 · page 3
Silver Peak (Broken Hill): Limited local board reports that machinery is working satisfactorily and that the tribute party has completed unwatering…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Coal Fight Is On"
Barrier Miner · Tuesday 17 December 1940 · page 1
SYDNEY, Tuesday.— Commenting on the resolve of the northern coal miners to go on strike Mr. T. Hoare, who is about to retire from the…
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