Farming on Gold
A Britisher, who for some years has been a successful farmer in Northern Ontario, literally blew himself into a gold mine recently. While building a new…
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Mining & the mines, 1929
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Brown Coal Yallourn Works
The Electricity Commission of Victoria has announced that the coal dredge just installed at Yalloura will commerce operations immediately. In the earlier stages it…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Seven Hours Day British Coal Industry Reported Intention of Government. Miners in Conference (Australian Press Association.) LONDON, July 22
It was reported on good authority at Blackpool, where the miners' annual conference it being hold, that the Government intends to revert to a seven hours…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Industrial News Western Miners Wider Management Powers
An important change in the control of the affairs of the Western branch of the Miners' Federation will shortly take place. It has been decided to set up a Board of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →To Canvass Shearers Miners' Appeal for Funds
Two further canvassers, F. Edwards and W. Wilson, left Cessnock last night for the Tamworth district, where…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gold Discovery South Australian Rush Adelaide
News of the discovery of rich gold at Twigham's Load, about 20 miles from Mount Bryan, in the north of South Australia, has resulted in a rush to that…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Owners Protest Coal Inquiry Evidence Copies of Reports Sydney
This, according to Mr. Shand, K.C. is the price the Commonwealth Government wishes to extract for the supply of copies of evidence to all…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Want Him Here Request to Acting-Premier Carrington Move "Make Stand on Coal Issue"
Varrington Council wants the Acting-Premier to visit Newcastle It wants him to take action in connection with the proposed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Coal Commission Evidence on Income Tax and Profits Concluded Owners Deny Resumption Move Sydney
The Coal Commission concluded the taking of evidence to-day on the question of income tax and profits. Mr. Shand, K.C., for the Northern Collieries' Association, and Mr. Flannery, K.C., for the Caledonian Collieries,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →New Guinea Goldfields London, July 29
The Ellyou Goldfields Development Co. has called a special meeting of shareholders for July 30 in order to wind up in company voluntarily in compliance with the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Maitland District Dangerous Practice Old Mine Workings Coal Shortage
Owing to the protracted idleness at the collieries, and in consequence of the cutting off of domestic supplies to the employees, fuel for the homes in the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →'Ware Experts! Miners' Counsel's View Theories Attacked Coal Commission Argument SYDNEY
There was a brighter tone in the argument before the Coal Commission to-day. Counsel for the Mine Unions…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Coal Commission Addresses by Counsel on Tax in Relation to Profit Caledonian Collieries Accounts Sydney
To-day's' sitting' of the Coal Commission was devoted to addresses by counsel on the question of income tax in relation to profit. Addresses will conclude to-morrow, and the Commission will then go into camera to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Coal Problem
Day by day, reports appear of proceedings before the Royal Commission presided over by Mr. Justice Davidson, but we venture to say that few…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wallsend Miners' Relief Committee
Only two appeals were dealt with at the meeting on Tuesday night of Wallsend Combined Mining Unions' Relief Committee, over which Mr. J. Boggs…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners' March Basinets Assistance
Assistance for those who take part in the proposed miners' march to Sydney has been offered by a number of business people, according to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Unemployed Support the Miners
At a meeting of the Newcastle One Big Union of Unemployed, held at the Trades Hall, yesterday, and presided over by Mr. J. D. McNee, the proposed march of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Miners' March to Sydney
Sir,—The Northern Miners' President is greatly concerned that the State Premier should have a fitting welcome on his return from abroad and, with this in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners' March Welcoming the Premier
According to Mr. T. Hoare, President of the Northern branch of the Miners' Federation, the been in the Northern district are enthusiastic concerning the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Hebburn Miners Staff Men Stopped
The two Hebburn collieries were picketed again yesterday. Pickets also assembled at the Klin[?]-street railway crossing and turned back four members of the…
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