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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1932

2,446 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 27 of 123

The Sun Stop Press Miners to Vote

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 8 March 1932 · page 1

The Miners' Committee of Management decided this afternoon to ask all lodge secretaries to call meetings immediately to vote on…

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Bounty on Bunkers to Assist Newcastle Coal Trade Coal Trimmers' Proposal Tariff Board in Newcastle Inquiry Into Suggested Duty on Foreign Coal "Oil Fuel Tariff"

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 8 March 1932 · page 1

The necessity for devising a scheme to encourage the use of our coal on visiting ships was stressed by the secretary of the Newcastle Coal Trimmers' Branch of the Waterside Workers'…

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Miners' Managment Committee Special Meeting in Newcastle Ayrfield Position

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 8 March 1932 · page 3

A special meeting of the Northern Miners' Management Committee was held to-day, when the general president (Mr. Rees)…

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British Experts Advise Australia To Sell Its Gold Reserve Selling Our Gold Recommended Economists Describe Advantages Reserve of Gold Irrelevant Profit by Sale London

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 8 March 1932 · page 8

The question as to the advisability of Australia selling its gold reserve has been widely discussed in…

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Gold Holdings France and United States New York, March 7

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 March 1932 · page 5

It is announced that the Bank of France's gold holdings now exceed those of the Federal Reserve Bank. They are respectively 75,059,000,000 francs, or…

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Tariff Board and South Maitland Mines

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 9 March 1932 · page 6

Members of the Tariff Board, after the first portion of the evidence in support of the imposition of a duty on bunker coal was taken in Newcastle yesterday…

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Industrial News Miners' Committee Special Meeting in Newcastle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 9 March 1932 · page 5

The Northern Miners' Management Committee met at the Trades Hall yesterday. The President of the Northern district (Mr. T. Hoare) presided. Others…

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Bringing Coal to Newcastle Victorian Brown Variety

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 9 March 1932 · page 1

The arrival in Newcastle to-day of a consignment of five tons of brown coal from Victoria was taken as an indication that the…

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Newnes Shale Mine Flooding of Channel Production Suspended Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 9 March 1932 · page 7

Production at the Newnes shale mine has been partially disorganised through the flooding of a channel leading to the works. A compression plant was…

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'Unfit Custodians' Attack on Mine Owners MR. A. G. Lyon's Comment

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 9 March 1932 · page 6

"I have, during the past 10 years, followed the trend of the coal trade in this district, and I have come to the very definite conclusion that the present…

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Request for Strike Pay for Miners Men Who Supported B.h.p. Seamen

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 9 March 1932 · page 7

The demands of John Darling and Elrington men for strike pay during the period in which they were idle, in obedience to the Centrals…

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Bunker Coal Duty Tariff Board Hears Evidence Aid to Industry Claimed Lyon Bros. Seek Help for Oil Production

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 9 March 1932 · page 4

The application of the Newcastle Federal Council of the Australian Labour Party and the Coal Trimmers' Union for the imposition of a duty on bunker coal brought into the Commonwealth occupied the Tariff Board in Newcastle…

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British Finances Make Extraordinary and Rapid Recovery Remarkable Rise In Sterling Gold Price Falls Australia Losing Chance Should Wait London

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 9 March 1932 · page 8

A meteoric rise in sterling is the first repercussion of the recovery in British finances. As compared with the…

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Glenrock Colliery Award

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 March 1932 · page 5

The Colliery Miners' Northern Conciliation Committee will meet at Newcastle Courthouse at 10 a.m. to-day to consider the matter of making an award for…

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Ayrfield No. 1 Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 March 1932 · page 5

Ayrfield No. 1 colliery will resume operations this morning on terms satisfactory to the management and the Miners' Lodge. Only a few men will be employed for the…

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Coal Lost

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 March 1932 · page 11

Sir,—As a mining man for 40 years, I react with interest Mr. Baddeley's statement in Parliament that 75 to 80 per cent. of the coal was lost under present…

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Unassociated Mine Owners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 March 1932 · page 6

The committee appointed to hear the claims of the Northern branch of the Miners' Federation for an award for the collieries not identified…

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Miners' Central Council

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 March 1932 · page 11

Sir.—According to a report in the "Newcastle Morning Herald" a meeting of the Newcastle branch of the Seamen's Union was held at the Trades Hall. The report…

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Work At Mines

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 10 March 1932 · page 4

Richmond Main and Hebburn No. 1 collieries were working to-day, while Stanford Merthyr and Richmond Main were again idle…

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Mining Conferences

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 March 1932 · page 5

The Executive of the Miners' Federation announced yesterday that on Tuesday, at 10.30 a.m., a conference would be held in connection with the affairs at Aberdare…

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