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Murray · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1930

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What the Reduced Coal Prices Mean. Larg'e Orders Forthcoming. SYDNEY, Thursday Night

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 13 June 1930 · page 2

The estimated reduction in coal prices will mean a saving of £900,000 co industry in this State. The Railway Department will shortly call for…

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Wallerawang Coal Field. Employees Dismissed. SYDNEY, Tuesday Noon

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 17 June 1930 · page 3

About 150 employees of the Renown colliery, near Wailerawang, were given notice of dismissal, owing to the falling off in trade…

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Proposed Gold Bonus

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 June 1930 · page 33

Delegations of mining and commercial interests from West Australia waited upon the Minister of Mines, Mr. Weaver, and asked him would he…

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Search for Gold

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 June 1930 · page 46

The Minister for Mines (Mr. Weaver) said that 200 men were prospecting for gold in various parts of the State under the Government…

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Bonus for Gold

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 June 1930 · page 4

Replying to members of the Australian gold bonus delegation, the Queensland Premier (Mr. Moore) said that the Queensland Government agreed to…

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The Price of Coal

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 June 1930 · page 10

THE reduction of 3/ in the price of coal is estimated to bring about a saving of £900,000 to industry in New South Wales. The Government…

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Best Coal in Demand

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 20 June 1930 · page 11

It is now becoming possible to gauge the extent to which the long stoppage of the associated northern collieries has affected trade previously held by these…

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Mine Manager Stabbed. Melbourne

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 20 June 1930 · page 3

Ronald Davis, underground manager at the State Coal Mine, Wonthaggi, was stabbed in the neck during an argument, and admittted to hospital…

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Gold ! Developments Likely Corowa Something Doing

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 20 June 1930 · page 2

Under the Government [?] over 200 men are prospecting gold in various paris of [?] and work for 300 more is [?]…

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Heavy Rain in Newcastle Area. Transport Services Affected. Water Pours into Wallsend Mine. SYDNEY. Wednesday Noon

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 20 June 1930 · page 1

Heavy damage is reported in the Newcastle district as the result ol heavy rain. Many exciting incidents were witnessed. Tram, train, and…

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Central Australia Mine

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 27 June 1930 · page 15

Mrs. Bernard Levy, of Rose Bay, and Mrs. Carl Norman, of Waverley, set out on Sunday with a party of mining exports in the aeroplane Canberra for…

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Coal for Railways

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 27 June 1930 · page 2

The N.S.W. Railway Commissioners will place orders for approximately 1,000,000 tons of coal with the northern mine-owners next month. The…

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Rugby J. Hore Gold Cup : Temora Defeats Cootamundra

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 27 June 1930 · page 35

In the most exciting game seen on the recreating ground for years, Temora defeated Cootamundra for the Jack Hore Gold Cup on Sunday by 26…

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300 Ounces of Gold One Foot Below Surface

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 27 June 1930 · page 1

Ten miles north of Yaigoo, on the Yaigoo goldfields in West Australia, Nevllis Rowe and Bryan Roden found 300oz. of glod…

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"Too Childish" "For Any Body of Intelligent Men" Broken Hill Miners Refuse Reduction in Wages Broken Hill

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 1 July 1930 · page 1

The Workers Industrial Union at a meeting at Broken Hill, decided not to entertain the proposal of three mining. companies that the men…

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The Coal Difficulty. Hopes of Compulsory Conference. SYDNEY, Friday Noon

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 4 July 1930 · page 3

Mining industry union officials are generally hopeful that the compulsory conference between representatives of the Miners' Federation and the…

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Coal at Oaklands Work Again Commenced

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 11 July 1930 · page 1

Last week work was again commenced on the prospector's shaft near Mr. J. Webster's property. It is the intention of the…

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Terrible Mining Disaster in Germany. Berlin

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 11 July 1930 · page 2

Two hundred miners were entombed following a coal gas explosion at Hausdorf. Sixty-seven are known to be dead, and it is feared the…

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Gold! Boring Operations in Corowa First Move Made

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 15 July 1930 · page 3

It is a fact that since the State Minister for Mines and Forests launched a gold prospecting schema recently, there has bean…

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A Lucky Find. Gold in a Tree Stump

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 18 July 1930 · page 1

Three ingots of gold, valued at £300, have been found in the stump of a tree at Perth by John Dundas. Detectives believe that the gold was…

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