Miners Refuse to Transfer Idleness in Two industries Reported LONDON, January 30
The refusal of unemployed miners to move from Durham, where there are 10,000 workless, to Lancashire, where pits and cotton mills are…
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Magnetic Mine Victor Dead London, January 30
The death occurred to-day of Bern Parker Haigh, Professor of Applies Mechanics at the Royal Naval College Professor Haigh, who was aged 56,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Much Gold Won in N S.W. SYDNEY
Gold produced in N.S. W. during the 11 months ended November was [?] [?]ces, valued at £[?]966,971. The figures to hand for December indicate…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Drifting Mine Found in Bass Strait Melbourne
Five fishing boats, operating: about two miles off Apollo Bay, scurried back to port this morning after a drifting mine passed within…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mine Menace Many Sweepers Active SYDNEY
Declaring that everything possible was brine done to cope with the [?]e menace, the Navy Minister (Mr. W. M. Hughes) said to-day that new…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Farmer Ploughs Into Gold Reel
While ploughing 300 yards from his homestead, Mr. J. C. Symes, a farmer, near Southern Cross (W. A.), felt the plough grind against hard stone…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gold Production Highest Since 1916 SYDNEY
The Department of Mines announced to-day that the N.S.W. gold production figures for 1940, in 100,254[?] ounces, were the highest on record since 1916. when…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Control of Coal Supplies
The Commonwealth Coal Board, of which Mr. Justice Davidson has been appointed chairman, will control all coal produced within the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wodonga Rail Works Big Coal Bunkering Scheme Begins
Work for a big coal bunkering scheme on the Victorian railways, between the border and Wodonga, is now in progress, and about 70 men are engaged m the levelling off large area alongside the main line…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Racing Figure Passes Mr. Matt Sawyer Dead Had Won Three Albury Gold Cups
The death of Mr. Matt Sawyer of “[?]utomo.” Bethungra, on Wednesday night robbed the southern district racing world of a ,man who had for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mines at Singapore London
The Admiralty has given notice that it will sow mines in the Straits of Singapore, Malayan States. The Admiralty…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Attempt to Smuggle Gold Bars Seattle, Feb. 1[?]
Leo E. Morland, 39, described as an Australian, allegedly attempted to smuggle his life savings, totalling [?]5, 000 dollars’ worth of gold bars, into…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mine on Victorian Coast Sydney
A mine behaved to have [?] away from an enemy min[?] along a section of the Victorian [?] was found yesterday washed up on [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mines Laid Off Malaya SINGAPORE
The Government announces that the following area off the coast of Johore is dangerous for navigation: The area bounded on the north by parallel 002…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Enemy Mines at Apollo Melbourne
An enemy mine was washed up on the beach at Apollo Bay yesterday. It is believed to have broken adrift from a minefield laid on the coast…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Mining Central Reference Board CANBERRA. Tu[?]
It is formally announced [?] that Judge Drake Brockman, [?] A[?]bitration Court Beach, has been [?] pointed chairman of the Central [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Funeral—For Nine Derelict Mines Not Always Kind to the Curious
The story of the Thames (N.Z.) woman who found a large object covered with weeds, mussels, and slime on a lonely beach and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fifty Years of Stage Life on the West Australian Gold Fields (Copyright) (Continued From Last Issue.) ENGLAND...1878 to 1891 AUSTRALIA...1892 to 1931
ON the morning of December 24, 1891, I left St. Kilda to report at the Bijou Theatre. As I left the portals of the hotel, I stepped into what seemed a blast furnace. I My hat! It was a hot wind. I never experienced…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →British Mine Mediterranean London, February 22
The Admiralty announces that it IS mining an area of thousands of square miles of the Mediterranean between Italy and North Africa, boring in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Contract Miners Increases Granted SYDNEY
Increases of 12/1 weekly for contract miners and a/ weekly for offhand labor in N.S.W.. were granted by the Central Reference Board to-night…
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