Britain’s Biggest Colliery To Send Up 400 Tons of Coal an Hour
By midsummer four hundred tons of coal an hour will be coming up from a new colliery about to be opened at Comrie in Fifeshire, to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1940
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British Industries BRITAIN’S 400 Closed Coal Pits May Be Opened Up By World Demand
One half of the miners of Great Britain who were unemployed at the outbreak of war are now at work as a result of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SERIAL. "Laracy's Pot of Gold" (All Bights Reserved.) Chapter 12. Laracy Faces the Showdown
By the time Laracy arrived at the Crossing the mountain air and the wind from the snows had steadied his whirling brain a little, and he…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Man Killed Drill Struck Charge In Mine
One man was killed and three others injured, one seriously, when an unexploded charge was struck by a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SERIAL. "[?]aracy's Pot of Gold" (All Rights Reserved.) Chapter 12 (Continued) Laracy Faces the Showdown
The wedding was set ior to-morrow, the public testimonial for tonight. John Ruskin or his sister, probably both, would be at each…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →All Is Not Gold That Glitters
Jewellery is coming into its own again. The modern dress with its crisp severity calls for some kind of ornament. Artifical jewellery has never achieved such good offects as now…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →King Sees Magnetic Mine
H.M. King George VI inspects the first magnetic mine salvaged in Britain. It bears the date "1938" which proves that even as we talked of peace at Munich, the Nazis were manufacturing this murderous weapon…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The End of a Mine
Steel-helmeted members of a British minesweeper crew line the rails and sink with rifle fire the mine their sweeping has brought to the surface…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sinking of Niagara Mine Found Near Spot
AUCKLAND, Thursday: It was revealed in Parliament by the Prime Minister, Mr. Fraser, that a mine had been found near the place where…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gold for Arthritis
More than 2,000,000 persons in the U.S. are victims of rheumatoid arthritis. What causes arthritis doctors do…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Stranded In Suva Sequel to Mining of "Niagara" Sydney
Because the Niagara struck a mine and sank off New Zealand an American liner with 100 passengers bound from Sydney to New Zealand omitted…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Straight Talk Miners On Imbecile Actions
NEWCASTLE, Tuesday: In a combined statement six of the seven members of the management committee of the Northern…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Paper Delivery Motor Truck Capsizes on Copper Mine Hill Two Men Killed
Two Goulburn men, Harold Coughlan (26), and Thomas Heath (37), were killed when a motor truck in which they were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mine Found in Dutch East Indies
SYDNEY Monday: The Java, wireless station, Nirom, yesterday broadcast a warning to shipping that drifting mines had been reported in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Going Down Into "Hell" Earth's "White-hot" Heart Deepest Mines Only A Scratch On The Surface
In the deepest coal-mines of Lancashire the miners have a grim saying as they, go deeper and deeper and it gets hotter and hotter: "We are getting near hell now!"…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →From Everywhere Gold Gifts
People of all ages and stations are sending a steady stream of gifts of old gold and jewellery to war funds. In Hospital…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Going Down Into "Hell" Earth's "White-hot" Heart Deepest Mines Only A Scratch On The Surface
In the deepest coal-mines of Lancashire the miners have a grim saying as they go deeper and deeper and it gets hotter and hotter: "We are getting near, hell now!"…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →From Everywhere Shift Work In Mines
Shift work in mines may be adopted temporarily under [?] safe guards, in an effort to build up Australias wartime coal stocks…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Gas For Cars
SYDNEY, Tuesday: The Chief Engineer of the N.R.M.A., Mr. Fielder, explained to-day that while coal gas was regarded as the best substitute…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mining Court Application Succeeds
William James Duncan, of Coogee, told Mr. M. J. Ryan, P.M., at the Goulburn Mining Warden's Court yesterday that in…
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