Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← Mining & the mines, all years

New England · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1930

660 stories in New England's papers · page 5 of 33

Narrow Escape Miners Nearly Killed SYDNEY

The Inverell Times · Friday 24 January 1930 · page 1

Seven miners had a narrow escape from death in West Greta colliery last night. They were working on number four level when a sudden…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Miners' New Log "Inter-State Dispute Exists"

The Inverell Times · Friday 24 January 1930 · page 1

Judge Beeby yesterday made another interim award in the coal industry. He held that an inter-State dispute had been caused by the…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Miners Fined. Mass Picketing Offences. Sydney

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 24 January 1930 · page 1

The hearing of the mass picketing charges arising out of the alleged interference with Rothbury railway has concluded at cessnock…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Gas Wave. Seven Miners Affected. Narrow Escape From Death. West Greta

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 24 January 1930 · page 1

Seven miners had a narrow escape from death in West Greta Colliery last right. They were working on number four level when a sudden inrush of…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Coal Dispute First Parade Workers' Defence Army Soviet Salute Given SYDNEY

Tingha Advocate and North-Western Journal · Friday 24 January 1930 · page 2

The first parade of the Workers' Defence Army was held in Sydney last night, when about 250 men and women assembled at…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Mr. Fenton States Australia's Case Mine Collapse Woman Entombed While Taking Afternoon Tea SYDNEY

The Inverell Times · Friday 24 January 1930 · page 1

A fall occurred in a coal mine on Dr. Matheson's property at Kurow, Otago (New Zealand). The doctor's wife was in the mine at the time…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Coal Mine Explosion Wonthaggi Disaster MELBOURNE

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 25 January 1930 · page 1

Jack Poli was fatally injured when he was struck by timber, following an explosion by dynamite at Wonthaggi coal mine…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Tenterfield and the Coal Strike

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 25 January 1930 · page 4

In last issue of the "Examiner" there appeared a paragraph—taken from a Sydney daily—stating that Tenterfield Municipal Council had…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Coal-Mining Deadlock

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Monday 27 January 1930 · page 2

The High Court in Melbourne on Wednesday decided that the Arbitration Court had no jurisdiction to make an award requiring the mines…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

New Beeby Award Coal Owners to Appeal

The Inverell Times · Monday 27 January 1930 · page 1

The chairman of the Northern Collieries' Association (Mr. C. M. McDonald) said yesterday that the proprietors intended to test the validity…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Father and Son Killed. When Car Falls Into Disused Mine. Hobart

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Monday 27 January 1930 · page 4

Waller What more (39) and Lindsay What more (8), his son, were tilled near Mount Cameron yesterday, when a car containing seven persons…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

GOLD! Promising Show at Broadmeadow

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 28 January 1930 · page 4

It is reliably reported that a "show" in the Broadmeadows locality promises to develop along lines that will richly reward the…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Costly Strikes What Miners Have Lost Telling Figures

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 28 January 1930 · page 2

Since 1914 the coal industry in New South Wales has suffered 4500 strikes involving at different times about 1, 700,000 workers, and causing the loss…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Missing Funds Warrant For Miners Official SYDNEY

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 28 January 1930 · page 1

A warrant has been issued for the arrest of an official of the Miners Lodge at Lithgow, about £400 being missing. A large proportion of the…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Doctor Long To Mediate in Coal Dispute? SYDNEY

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 28 January 1930 · page 1

The President of the Coalminers Federations referring to the suggestion made by the Dean of Bendigo that the Anglican Bishop of…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

A Car of Gold The Marquette Interests Race-goers

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 28 January 1930 · page 4

Probably the most handsomely finished car seen on the streets of Glen Braes, the new Golden Marguette created a stir on the local racecourse…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

The Gold Cuup Meeting Success Rewards Jockey Club's Enterprise a Thousand People Attend on Opening Day Sportsmen's Conception of Racing Realised True to the Best Traditions ; Many Stirring Contests

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 28 January 1930 · page 4

The recent history of the Glen Innes jockey Club may be summarised in successive attempts to rehabilitate racing in popular favor in Glen Innes. Year in and year out the committee in office has sought to regain for the sport some…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

"No Ray of Light For Coal Miners." "Doomed to Failure" the Coalfields' Strike. Opinion of Firemen and Enginedrivers. Censure of Miners' Leaders. Sydney

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 29 January 1930 · page 1

A severe censure of the miners' delegates: was contained in the annual report of the Enginedrivers' and Firemen's Association,, which declares that no jay of light can be seen, and the fight has been doomed to failure from the first. It says that the…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

"Black" Churches. Clergyman's Reply to Miners. Sydney

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 29 January 1930 · page 1

The Rev. W. E. Birkett, Anglican Minister at Branxton, referring to the "black ban" imposed on Ministers by Greta miners, said that the reason…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Mr. Scullin Will Not Resign Caucus and Coal Dispute

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 29 January 1930 · page 7

The report current in Sydney newspaper circles during the week-end that unless the Prime Minister intervened in the coal dispute and took…

Continued on Trove, page 7 →