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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1919

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State Purchase of Coal Mines. VANCOUVER

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 19 August 1919 · page 2

Mr. Lloyd George has announced that the Government has accepted the policy of the State purchase of the mineral rights to coal…

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State Purchase. Coal Mines in England (Reuter). VANCOUVER, August 18

Young Witness · Tuesday 19 August 1919 · page 2

Mr. Lloyd George has announced that the [?]h Government has accepted the policy of State purchase of the mineral rights of caol…

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British Miners. Opposition to Government LONDON

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 21 August 1919 · page 4

In interviews Messrs. Vernon and Hartshorn, Labour members, stated that the Premier had surrendered to the reactionaries, and every miners' leader…

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German Coal. Deliveries to France. LONDON

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 21 August 1919 · page 2

Reuter's Berlin correspondent states that the coal deliveries to France from the Ruhr region have begun and exceeded a million tons for the first month…

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Mine Nationalisation. Conference Action. (United Service Message.) LONDON

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 4 September 1919 · page 2

The Miners' Conference unanimously adopted the advice of the executive to declare in favour of action to secure nationalisation…

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Mine Nationalisation. Federation Proposals. (Published in "The Times.") LONDON

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 4 September 1919 · page 4

The executive of the Minors' Federation has decided to advise the special conference, assembling to-morrow, to reject the Government's developments…

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Reported Gold Discovery

Young Witness · Friday 5 September 1919 · page 2

There is mild excitement in Young owing to the reported discovery of rich gold bearing quarts, about 13 miles from Young, in the vicinity of…

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Gold Dredging

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 9 September 1919 · page 2

Applications have been made at the Mining Warden's office at Tuena for three dredging licenses for gold on the Tuena Creek, in the parishes of…

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Reported Gold Discovery

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 9 September 1919 · page 4

There is mild excitement in Young owing to the reported discovery of rich gold bearing quartz about 13 miles from Young, in the vicinity of Monteagle…

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British Destroyer Strikes Mine. LONDON

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 9 September 1919 · page 4

Reuter's Helsingfors correspondent reports that the British destroyer S19 struck a mine near Seitskaer, and it is feared twenty were drowned…

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Railway Coal Contracts. Alleged Conspiracy

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 11 September 1919 · page 2

The case in which Harold Lake Stead, 36, coal mining manager, and John Chudleigh, 60, railway inspector, are charged with conspiring that sums of money…

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U.S. Coal Production. Strike Recommended

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 11 September 1919 · page 4

Cleveland (via Vancouver), Tuesday. A recommendation for a nation-wide strike of coalminers by November 1 unless a satisfactory basis of agreement in…

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Mine Nationalisation. A Big Vote. LONDON

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 11 September 1919 · page 2

The Trade Union Congress on a card vote passed a resolution for the nationalisation of mines. The vote in favour was 4,478,000…

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A Riverina Coal Mine. Production Commences Next Week

Young Witness · Friday 12 September 1919 · page 6

ALBURY, Friday.— Exploratory work at the Corrabin mine at Oaklands is proceeding satisfactorily, and it is announced that coal will be hauled…

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A Miner’s Treasures

The Yass Courier · Monday 15 September 1919 · page 3

There died in Queensland a couple weeks age one of the old brand of prospectors who pound new fields of wealth in the unexplored areas of…

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Coal. Vessels in Home Ports. LONDON

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 18 September 1919 · page 4

The Goverment requisitioned twenty steamers which were loading coal at Cardiff for foreign ports and ordered them to proceed to Liverpool,…

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Foodstuffs from Germany Gold from England. LONDON

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 18 September 1919 · page 4

Reuter's Brussels correspondent reports that forty million marks in gold were dispatched to Germany from England to-day in payment for foodstuffs…

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Colliery Idle. Sydney, T[?]day

Young Witness · Tuesday 30 September 1919 · page 3

The Coledale colliery, on the South Coast, is idle to-day owing to a dispute with boys over wages. A total of 500 men are out as a re[?]lt…

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Cable News. British Coal Strike

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 30 September 1919 · page 2

The strike situation in Britain on Sunday was unchanged. The Governments arrangements for the distribution of food are progressing smoothly. Various…

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Offer for Burraga Mine

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 9 October 1919 · page 4

Lithgow, Monday.—A report from Burraga states that a month's extension of the suspension of labour conditions was granted to the Abercrombie Copper…

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