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

Mining & the mines, 1926

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Gold Stealer and Smuggler San. Diego (Cal.)

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 17 September 1926 · page 4

Joseph Ducrest has been sentenced to eighteen months gaol for smuggling aliens into the United States. Police say they have overwhelming…

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Five Months Coal Strike May End London

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 27 September 1926 · page 2

After tabling the emergency regulations, the Government to-morrow intends to move the adjournment in order to provide an opportunity for…

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State Control of Mines Bill Rejected in England LONDON

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 29 September 1926 · page 2

The House of Commons to-day rejected a motion by 201 to 97 votes making it obligatory for the Government to take over the control of the…

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New Guinea Gold Find

The Yass Courier · Monday 4 October 1926 · page 5

It is rumoured in Rabaul that a new find has been made in the goldfields district, but men here who would prob[?]y get first information…

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Gold Fish Killed

The Burrowa News · Friday 8 October 1926 · page 1

Scotland Yard has been called in to solve the mystery of the poisoning of 100,000 gold fish in tanks belonging to a London merchant, Mr…

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British Coal Strike Government Scheme Rejected LONDON

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 8 October 1926 · page 4

By 737,000 votes miners on the coalfields rejected the Government's latest scheme for a settlement of the coal dispute. They also decided to…

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British Coal Strike One Country Withdraws from Union LONDON

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 11 October 1926 · page 2

The reply to the miners' safetymen's decision is the withdrawal of Leicestershire from tile Federation. At a meeting of the council of…

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Stormy Scenes British Labour and Coal Mines Bill Mr. J. H. Thomas Howled Down LONDON

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 13 October 1926 · page 2

At the Labour conference, to-day, Mr. R. Davies, M.P, moved A resolution protesting against the Government "abjectly surrendering to the…

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Effect of Coal Strike Other Unions Being Ruined LONDON

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 13 October 1926 · page 2

Mr. Thomas, M.P., made r some remarkable disclosures of the ruinous effect of the coal strike on big unions when permitted to speak at a Labour…

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Coal Strike Safety Men May Be Withdrawn British Miners Desperate LONDON

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 15 October 1926 · page 6

The mining districts by 460,000 votes to 284,000 endorsed the miners conference decision regarding the withdrawal of safetymen from the…

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In Search of Gold

The Yass Courier · Monday 18 October 1926 · page 6

Mr Alan McKinnon, a member of the well known Junee district family of graziers, is one of the party of seven which has just left Sydney for New…

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Welsh Mining Riot a Communist Charged LONDON

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 18 October 1926 · page 2

"We ought to have slaughtered them. I am out to kill the bloody blacklegs; you are out to protect them." This statement is attributed…

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New Guinea Goldfield "No Field for a Poor Man"

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 18 October 1926 · page 4

As the result of six weeks work 12,000 [?]nces of gold have been exported from the Edie Creek goldfield in New Guinea…

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Mining Child Is She Alive?

The Burrowa News · Friday 22 October 1926 · page 10

Although she did not find any trace of Joan Smith, who has been lost for some weeks, Mrs. Murray, the telepathist, who visited Poolmacca still…

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Science Notes & News. Storing Coal in Water

The Yass Courier · Monday 25 October 1926 · page 3

The advantage of storing quantities of coal under water, where deterioration is much less than in the air, are appealing more and more strongly to…

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Gold From New Guinea £10,000 Worth Reaches Sydney SYDNEY

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 27 October 1926 · page 2

The steamer Melusia which arrived in Sydney to-day from New Guinea brought 4000 ounces of gold worth approximately £10,000 which was…

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Huge Gold Nugget 101ozs. in the Rough

The Burrowa News · Friday 29 October 1926 · page 1

A Kalgoorlie message states that a nugget of gold weighing 101 ounces in the rough, was recently found by a well-known prospector…

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Captain's Flat Mine Operations in Full Swing One Hundred Men Employed

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 29 October 1926 · page 1

BRAIDWOOD: Mining operations are now in full swing at Captain's Flat mine which was once a prosperous field…

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Edie Creek Goldfield

The Yass Courier · Monday 1 November 1926 · page 6

The Burns, Philip steamer, Melasia, which arrived in Sydney from New Guinea last Wednesday, brought about 4000 ounces of gold, from the…

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Gold From Antartic London

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 5 November 1926 · page 4

Professor Sir Edgeworth David Lecturing at the Royal Institution Said, There was little doubt that the gold in the Antartic could be go by the…

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