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

Mining & the mines, 1923

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Bellbird Disaster. Mines Inspector's Report No Fire Damp

Young Witness · Saturday 8 September 1923 · page 5

The report by Mr. Hindmarsh Chief Inspector of Mines, regarding the Bellbird disaster is stated to throw a very interesting new high of…

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Colliery Fund Roman Catholic Contribution Sydney, Monthly

Southern Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 September 1923 · page 2

Roman Catholles in this State and Queensland have contributed £135 to the [?]lliory disaster fund. Hathurst, Wagga and Lismore have…

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Safety in Mining Possible a Valuable Suggestion

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 11 September 1923 · page 2

Mr. T. Lookley, Goulburn, writes:— The Bellbird Colliery disaster of a few days age emphasises the fact that the present means employed in ventilation…

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Waste Paper Currency. Race of the Rouble and Mark. New Note Issue on Gold Basis

Young Witness · Tuesday 11 September 1923 · page 2

LONDON, Sept. 8.—The mark after falling to 215,000,000 to the £, closed in Berlin at 190,000,000. It is now running a neck-and-neck…

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Muriel Tank Gold Prospects Very Bright SYDNEY

Southern Morning Herald · Wednesday 12 September 1923 · page 2

The Minister of Mines received a report from the Inspector of Mines regarding the Muriel Tank goldfield, near Canbolego. Prospecting has been…

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Coal Dispute in New Zealand Wellington (N.z.)

Southern Morning Herald · Saturday 15 September 1923 · page 4

The West Coast coal dispute is becoming more serious. The Buller district mines closed down to-day, and all coal showers have been dismissed,…

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Balmain Coal. Mine Working After Eight. Years

Young Witness · Tuesday 18 September 1923 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday—Collieries Limited commenced, operations at Balmain coal mine on Saturday. The first coal mined there for eight year's…

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Colliery Inquiry Further Evidence Cessnock

Southern Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 September 1923 · page 2

At the Bellbird inquiry to-day, Robert Wallon, a trapper in the mine, said he passed through No. 8 east trap-door 18 times on the morning of the disaster…

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Mine Disaster. Thirty-six Killed

Young Witness · Tuesday 25 September 1923 · page 2

WARSAW, Sept. 22.—Thirty-six miners were killed by an explosion of fire damp in the Reden mine, Kattowitz…

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Thirty-six Miners Killed LONDON

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 25 September 1923 · page 4

Reuter's Warsaw correspondent telegraphs that 36 minors were killed in an explosion of fire damp in Reden Mine, Kattowitz…

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Mining Disaster WARSAW

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 25 September 1923 · page 2

Fifty miners are dead and forty entombed in the coal mine at Reden as a result of the fire damp explosion…

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Russian Mine Disaster Warsaw

Southern Morning Herald · Wednesday 26 September 1923 · page 3

Fifty miners are dend and 40 entombed is a coal mine at Redan as a result of fire-dump explosion…

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Cable News Disastrous Balloon Race. Unattached America. Colliery Disaster

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 27 September 1923 · page 4

The Gordon Bennett race for, balloons in Belgium proved most disastrous. Five pilots were killed and several balloons wrecked. The race…

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Redding Colliery Disaster Forty-one Entombed Australian Press Association. LONDON

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 27 September 1923 · page 1

The death roll from the colliery disaster at Redding is not so heavy as feared. Twelve of the entombed men had a miraculous escape. Cries were…

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Mining Disaster. Forty-one Men Entombed

Young Witness · Thursday 27 September 1923 · page 2

LONDON, Sept. 26.—A Reuter message states that a disaster has occurred at the Redding Mine, near Falkirk through an inrush of water in…

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Mining Disaster Forty-one Entombed English Workings Collapse (Reuters.) LONDON

Southern Morning Herald · Thursday 27 September 1923 · page 2

A disaster occurred in the Reading mine, near Falkirk, through an [?]nrush of water in some disused workings, owing to the collapse of a barrier…

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Rescues in Mines Life-saving Apparatus

Southern Morning Herald · Friday 28 September 1923 · page 4

The United States Bureau of Mines reports that there is increasing proof of the value of life-saving or rescue apparatus in the case of accidents in mines. In…

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Coal Mine Flooded. Telephone Tells Story. Entombed Man Converses. the Ominous Silence. Three Dead; 43 MISSING

Young Witness · Saturday 29 September 1923 · page 7

LONDON, Sept. 27:—The disaster at Redding colliery, near Edinburgh occurred at 5 o'clock in the morning A survivor, when interviewed, said…

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"That Old-fashioned Mother of Mine."

Young Witness · Saturday 29 September 1923 · page 4

That dear old lady who wrote to the papers to establish the proposition that nowadays there is too much dancing, has, I should imagine, been…

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Ruhr Situation Miners' Strike Ordered LONDON

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 29 September 1923 · page 1

Reuter's Dusseldorf correspondent telegraphs that the Ruhr Communists have declared a general strike in the mines. The trade unions have lost…

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