£100,000,000 Fire That Has Been Burning For 50 Years Strikers Set Coal Mine Alight With Blazing Oil
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 25
THE strangest fire in history, one that has been burning underground for 50 years, has already done damage amounting to £100,000,000…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Three Drowned in Colliery Dam Mother and Two Children
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 6
A mother and her two children were drowned in a colliery dam at Helensburgh on Boxing Day, in Circumstances that were both dramatic…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mining Output Best Since 1929
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 4
Marked progress in the mineral industry in New South Wales during 1935 is indicated by advance returns furnished to the Minister for Mines…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Eugowra Gold Robbery When Gardiner's Gang Swooped Down on Escort Memories of Cobb and Co. Firm Once Harnessed 6000 Horses a Day
The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 4
"The roaring camps of Gulgong and many a Diggers' Rest; "The diggers of the Lachlan; the huts of farthest west; "Some twenty thousand exiles who sailed for weal and woe; "The bravest hearts of twenty lands will wait for Cobb and Co."…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners' Conference To-morrow
The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 7 January 1936 · page 3
The president of the Central Council of the Miners' Federation (Mr. C. Nelson) said to-day that it was hoped that a conference would be held…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Just a Little Comment. (The Editor’s Column) Seamen and Miners
The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 7 January 1936 · page 1
THREATS are being made by the miners of Newcastle and elsewhere to commence a strike in sympathy with the seamen who…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Strike. Railway Men Will Not Participate. Crews From All Vessels Called Out. Miners May Decide to Strike on Wednesday. Sydney, Monday Night
The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 7 January 1936 · page 2
Hopes entertained by the Seamen's Union, and miners' organisation, for a general strike, were dashed to the ground, to-day, when the powerful…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Missing Gold Ring
The Berrigan Advocate · Wednesday 8 January 1936 · page 4
Mr Middleton was a retired accountant, who rather prided himself upon his own penetration and acuteness, yet in beginning he confessed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Collieries Cease Work. Despite the Strike Decision. SYDNEY
The Riverine Grazier · Friday 10 January 1936 · page 2
In spite of the heavy voting by the miners against the stoppage in sup port of the striking seamen, employees of the Wallarah Colliery…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gold Dredging in New Zealand
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 January 1936 · page 39
The New Zealand Minister of Public Works, Mr. R. Semple, stated at Auckland that the Westland power scheme, which was of considerable importance,…
Continued on Trove, page 39 →The Strike. Miners Reject Proposals. Sydney
The Riverine Grazier · Friday 10 January 1936 · page 2
By overwhelming majorities meetings of miners in New South Wales today rejected the proposal that a general coal strike should be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ToDay's Latest. Trades Hall Congratulates the Miners. Sydney
The Riverine Grazier · Friday 10 January 1936 · page 2
Slashing attacks on the Miners' Federation for its attempts to bring about a general stoppage of the coal industry were made by a number of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →No Support for Miners Decisions of Unions' Council Secret Ballot on Coastal Ships
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 January 1936 · page 8
Plain speaking marked a conference between the central council of the Miners' Federation and the executive officers of the All-Australian Council…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mining Project in Western Australia Expendituee of £2,000,000
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 January 1936 · page 31
The W.A. Government will begin almost immediately to construct 22 miles of railway from Cue, on the Murchison goldfield, to the Big Bell…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →General Strike Set-back Miners in New South Wales Refuse Fear Privation for Families Consternation on Sydney Waterfront
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 10 January 1936 · page 8
BY overwhelming majorities meetings of miners in New South Wales rejected the proposal that a general coal strike should be organised throughout the Commonwealth in support of the seamen who are on strike. But miners at Wonthaggi decided by 380 votes to 44 that there should…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Men Decide to Remain on Strike. the Miners' Federation. Council Assisting Seamen. SYDNEY, Monday Night
The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 14 January 1936 · page 2
With only one dissentient, a mass meeting of the Seamen's Union to-day reaffirmed the decision to remain on strike. The meeting was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Anti-mechanisation Policy of Miners Men for Broken Hill Colliery
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 January 1936 · page 12
The Broken Hill Pty. Co. Ltd. has already received hundreds of replies to its advertisements, first published on Saturday, calling for labor for its…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Mechanisation of Coal Mines Newcastle Man's Views. SYDNEY
The Riverine Grazier · Friday 17 January 1936 · page 1
A well known Newcastle colliery man states that it would probably be found that the mechanisation of the New South Wales collieries in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mechanisation on Coal Fields
The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 January 1936 · page 11
The Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited has decided to call for applications from men desiring employment at its Lambton B colliery, from…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Mining the Little Wahgunyah
The Corowa Free Press · Friday 17 January 1936 · page 5
A company has recently been formed with a capital of [?]50,000, to carry out prospecting and mining operations on some of the islands in…
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