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Mining & the mines, 1931

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Newcastle Coal Exports Lowest For 30 Years SYDNEY

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 20 January 1931 · page 1

Coal experts from Newcastle beyond the State last year were the lowest for 30 years…

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New Guinea Gold Tauri River Claims Difference in Yields

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 20 January 1931 · page 6

The local members of the prospecting party which went to the Tauri River find reported by Mr. Patrol Officer Hides, returned to Port…

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A.W.U. and Coal Workers Nearer Agreement SYDNEY

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 20 January 1931 · page 1

The adoption of contentious clauses in the proposed common constitution of the A.W.U. and the coal miners' organisations has practically been…

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Tumut Rush Splitter's Creek Gold 20 Ounces in Two Hours Rich Find Missed by 12 Inches

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 20 January 1931 · page 8

Gold! The magic that has lured men through parched deserts, through frozen wastes and fever swamps, has once again cast its spell over New…

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No Money for Dole Tickets Shop-keepers Worried Many Refuse Tickets A.W.U. and Coal Sydney

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 20 January 1931 · page 1

It is reported that hundreds of shopkeepers are threatened with extinction unless dole tickets which they have been collecting…

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V.C. Miners' Institute The Committee Meets

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 22 January 1931 · page 6

The monthly committee meeting of the Miners' Institute was held in the library on Tuesday night, the 13th. inst. The president, Mr. J. H…

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GOLD-MINING. Allocation of £10,000. Government Action

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 23 January 1931 · page 4

The Government has made available £10,000 for encouragement of gold-mining. Within a week 900 applications…

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Five Killed. British Coal-mine Tragedy Five Other Men Entombed. London

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 23 January 1931 · page 1

Five miners were killed by an explosion in the Aachengeich colliery, Lanarkshire, and five are entombed in the Hanley Auchengeich colliery…

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Tingha Miners Are Constructive

The Inverell Times · Friday 23 January 1931 · page 6
Also in Tingha Advocate and North-Western Journal

At a meeting of the Tingha unemployed miners last week, it was decided to write the following letter to our federal member. Mr. V. C…

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Mine Explosions Five Killed LONDON

The Inverell Times · Friday 23 January 1931 · page 1

Five miners were killed by an explosion in the Auchengeich colliery, Lanarkshire, and five are entombed in the Hanley Auchengeich colliery…

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Gold Passes

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 24 January 1931 · page 6

An illuminating Government report came to hand to-day. It contained the names of those other than Parliamentarians, who held gold passes…

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Wild-cat Gold Report

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Monday 26 January 1931 · page 2

A report from Bingara which appeared in the "Northern Daily Leader" last week regarding an alleged rich gold find at Bingara has already…

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Three Miners Killed By Fall of Earth HOBART

The Inverell Times · Monday 26 January 1931 · page 1

Two men and a boy namely, H. Crabtree (37), Miner, J. Clare (40), miner, and Pat Burke (14), lost their lives through a fall of earth at…

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Search for Gold Sydney Business Men Interested

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 27 January 1931 · page 3

A gold search association has been formed by leading Sydney business men with the object of forming a practical scheme for prospecting in…

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Buried by Coal. Mine Deputy Killed. Sydney

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 28 January 1931 · page 4

Buried beneath a Call of coal in the South Bull Colliery. Charles La tham (59), a deputy, was dead when miners cleared a path to his body…

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Miner Smothered Fall of Coal SYDNEY

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 28 January 1931 · page 1

Buried beneath a fall of coal in South Bulli colliery, Charles Latham, 59, a deputy, was dead when the miners cleared a path to his body…

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New Guinea "Gold." Conspiracy Alleged. £157,000 Involved. Sydney

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 28 January 1931 · page 1

At the Central Police Court. Feeder[?] Oerted (42) and Clive Ashley Cooper (43), company promoters, charged with having circulated and…

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Mining Machinery for the Mitchell

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 29 January 1931 · page 4

Messrs. A. Croft and R. Truman, Inverell carriers, passed through Glen Innes this morning transporting a steam engine by means of two…

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Blue and Gold Ball

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 8

Arrangements for the annual Slue and Cold Ball were made at a meeting of representatives of the various Armidale Friendly…

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