Efforts to Smother Mine Fire Making Line Safe Strenuous Work at Greta Boring Goes on
Although all surface fires at Greta have been smothered, and practically no smoke is issuing from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1932
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Millfield Miners
The question of the cavil-out was discussed at a meeting of the Millfield miners yesterday. It was decided to send a deputation to the Manager to-day, to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Work at Mines
Stanford Main Colliery still remains idle owing to slackness of trade. Richmond Main and Pelaw Main were again working to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Future of Coal Industry
Confidence in the future of the coal industry was expressed by Sir Francis Joseph, presiding at the annual meeting at Stoke of Settle, Speakman and Co.,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Promising Gold Find Launceston
A gold find which has been made at Warrentinna, near Branxholm, by Messrs. Jentzsch and Davis, gives good promise. From 13 tons of quartz, 20oz of gold is…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Millfield Greta to Discharge 150 Miners Lose Jobs
Fears are expressed at Cessnock that if the coal trade continues to fall away at the present alarming rate, there will soon be few colliery…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Council Coal Industry Bill Minister and Mr. Coates SYDNEY
In moving the third reading of the Coal Industry Bill the Vice-president of the Executive Council (Mr. J. K. Concannon) said that when the measure passed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Payment of Insurance Mines Subsidence Board Mr. Connell Asks for Relief Sydney
Mr. Connell asked the Minister for Mines (Mr. Baddeley), in the Legislative Assembly to-day, if in view of the fact that assessment notices had been sent out…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Historic French Palace Witnesses Another Strange Scene New French President Mining Engineer Versailles Like a Fortress Precautions Against Assassins Deputies Fight Paris
Albert Le Brun, scientist, mining engineer, a native of Lorraine, was to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Russia's Debt Lena Goldfields, Limited Britain Negotiating London, May 9
Asked in the House of Commons to-day what steps the Government proposed to take to secure payment from the Russian Government of the award of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Greta. Colliery Fire
So far as the surfaces of the two colliery holdings are concerned, conditions have been reduced to normal at Central Greta Colliery, but boring operations are…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Millfield Miners
A deputation from the Millfield Miners' Lodge waited on the Manager (Mr. Armstrong) yesterday, and requested that instead of cavilling out a large number of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gold Production Big Increase Last Year £89,000 Bounty to Be Paid Canberra
The Minister for Customs (Mr. Gullett) stated to-day that payments were now being made on gold produced in 1931. The year a production showed an increase of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Heavy Petrol Tariff Advocated to Force Use Coal Gas Good for State Says Valuer-general More Factories
That a prohibitive tariff on petrol would create an immediate demand for factory sites near the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Federal Session Note Issue Reserve Gold or Sterling Bill to Widen Bank Board's Powers CANBERRA
The bill to empower the Commonwealth Bank Board to hold the note issue reserve in gold or sterling or partly in both was explained to the House of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wallarah Colliery
Wallarah Miners' Lodge held a pit-top meeting yesterday morning to discuss the refusal of the Manager to pay water money to a wheeler who claimed that…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Coal for Unemployed
Mr. D. Watkins, M.H.R., has received a letter from the Minister for Defence (Senator Sir G. Pearce) agreeing to the issue of another 300 tons of coal for distribution…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Gold at Hillgrove
Some rich discoveries of gold have been made at Hillgrove. Sixteen tons of stone yielded 100oz. of gold in Cook's show, and a crushing of 10 tons from G. Myers and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Abermain. NO. 1 Mine Cavilling Out
The decision of J. and A. Brown Abermain-Seaham Collieries, Ltd., to close Abermain No. 1 Colliery was discussed at a meeting of Abermain No. 1 Miners'…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Miners and Cavil System Old Question Revived
Recent difficulties experienced within the Miners' Federation in regard to the operation of the cavil system, which was the subject of…
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