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Mid North Coast · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1924

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Mines Still Idle. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Friday 4 January 1924 · page 5

Work is still held up at eight Northern collieries through the man failing to resume and two mines also are idle in the South…

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The Coal Mines. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 8 January 1924 · page 3

Five Northern mines are still held up owing to industrial disputes and five others resumed work yesterday…

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Miners' Christmas Pay

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 8 January 1924 · page 2

Record pays were distributed at the Pelaw Main and Richmond Main Collieries on December 14th, following upon the recent record output…

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Gold Found in Duck

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 8 January 1924 · page 2

Mr. W. Tipple, of Geelong, was surprised to find gold in the gizzard of a Muscovy duck that he had purchased near Geelong. After washing the…

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More Mine Troubles. Coke Makers on Strike. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Friday 11 January 1924 · page 5

A number of the Southern coal mines may close owing to the coke strike as about one-third of the average coal output goes normally into the making…

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Miners' Ballot Fails. London

Macleay Argus · Friday 18 January 1924 · page 5

In the miners' ballot 510,000 to 114,000 rejected the idea of giving three months' notice of the termination of the wages agreement. A…

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Seeds That Are Worth Six Times Their Weight in Gold

The Northern Champion · Saturday 26 January 1924 · page 7

Suppose your wife were to ask you some morning, as you were leaving for your place of business, to sure and buy some double petunia…

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Gold at Mummel

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 30 January 1924 · page 1

Last week Messrs. T. Slyney (taree), J. and F. Staee and J. Warren (Upper Lansdowne) paid a visit to the recently selected…

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Gold at Mummel

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 1 February 1924 · page 2

Last week Messrs T.Slyney (Taree) J. and F. stace and J. Warren (Upper Lansdowne) paid a visit to the recently selected mining leases on the…

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Gold

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 5 February 1924 · page 2

Mr. F. B. Bigger, J.P., an optician who is visiting the district, has with him some splendid specimens of gold ore. The diorite is well impregnated,…

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Local Gold Find

Macleay Argus · Friday 8 February 1924 · page 4

With a view to the flotation of a company two well-known experts from West Australia visited Messrs. Morcom and Brown's gold property near…

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"Self-rescuer for Miners

The Northern Champion · Saturday 9 February 1924 · page 7

A new life-saving device, we are told by "The Coal Trade Bulletin" (Pittsburgh, Pa.), is the latest up-to-the-minute idea for the use of miners…

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A Mountain of Gold

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 12 February 1924 · page 3

In 1878 the [?]bf Dungog. 152 miles north of Sydney, was provided with excitement different from that occasioned by the bush fire that…

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Where the Incas Dug Flying to Mines in Andes Ranges. Daring Australian. London

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 12 February 1924 · page 3

Major Reid Kellett, of Queensland, has returned from his second trip to Peru, where he has bought one copper and three silver and lead mines,…

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Personal a Mountain of Gold

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 22 February 1924 · page 8

1879, the hamlet of Dungog, 152 miles north of Sydney, was provided with excitement different from that occasioned by the bush fire that…

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The Miners' Finances. a Substantial Credit. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Friday 22 February 1924 · page 5

The balance-sheet of the Workers' Industrial Union, better known as the Miners' federation, shows about one- third of its 24,000 members were idle…

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Coal Trimmers' Grievances. Sydney

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 4 March 1924 · page 3

It is stated the coal trimmers employed at the Newcastle Dyke complain of long hours owing to a shortage of men employed, and unless their…

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A Mountain of Gold (To the Editor "Gloucester Advocate")

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 4 March 1924 · page 2

S[?] issue of the 12th February last [?] re-published an article under the above heading re the Bar[?]ton, or Copeland, goldfields, Some…

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General News Labor's Gold Lace

The Gloucester Advocate · Friday 14 March 1924 · page 3

Wearing the heavily gold-brided leave dress, the Prime Minister (Mr. Mcdonald) and the lord privy Seal (Mr. J. R. Clynes) attended the first…

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Gold Standard

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 15 March 1924 · page 4

DISCUSSING the problems of exchange in the Empire, the Prime Minister, Mr. Bruce, said at Melbourne on Tuesday that an announcement was made at the…

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