Wonthaggi Miners Claim for Extra Weight Debate in Parliament Melbourne
M. McKenzie, Labor member for Wonthaggi, moved the adjournment of the Legislative Assembly this afternoon to discuss "the failure of the Government…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1932
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Weights and Measures Officer Makes Raid Coal, Milk Bread and Vegetables Big Summons List
Owing to complaints by coal merchants in Newcastle that persons wore competing unfairly with them by selling coal by the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Davy Jones's Locker Is Broached First Gold From Sunken Egypt Four Years Reward (Aboard the Artiglio) Off Brest
The first bars of the bullion in the strongholds of the submerged wreck of the liner Egypt have been safely…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mines Working
Richmond Main, Pelaw Main, and Stanford Main Collieries were again working to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Free Coal Orders
Forty orders for free coal will be given to the unemployed of the district by Wickham Relief Committee on Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal-cutting Machine Tracks
According to "Coal Age," a notable advance in coal-cutting machine design was accomplished in 1931 in the development of a machine capable of shearing from a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Award Suspended Wonthaggi State Mine Board to Decide Terms Melbourne
Following the appointment of a special State tribunal to deal with the wages and conditions of employees of the State coalmine at Wonthaggi, Judge Beeby was…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Sunken Egypt Treasure Chamber Entered Gold Ingots Salvaged Paris, June 22
After four years' effort, the first ingots of gold were salvaged from the P. and O. Company's liner Egypt by the dogged divers of the Artiglio. The salvaged ingots…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Colliery Mechanics Reject Scheme Rothbury Colliery Abermain Mines' Policy To-day's Meeting
A proposal by the management of Rothbury Colliery to work the mine on a co-operative basis was unanimously rejected…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wallarah Colliery
It was anticipated that after working five days the first week Wallarah colliery would have a fall pay, but the mine worked only two days the second week,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Southern Collieries Wollongong
Extra men were engaged at the Metropolitan and Coalcliff Collieries during the week, and it is expected that more men will be engaged at the latter colliery next…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wallsend Colliery Trouble
All sections of the Wallsend community are in a state of anxious suspense regarding the uncertainty of the future of Wallsend colliery arising from the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rothbury Colliery Cooperative Scheme Rejected
A proposal to reopen and work Rothbury colliery on a cooperative basis was discussed at a meeting of the Rothbury Miners' Lodge yesterday. After the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Will Coal and Oil Mix?
A WISE maxim in politics is that if a rival cannot be defeated or "swallowed," the next best course is amalgamation. Apparently this maxim is being applied by those fighting in Great Britain to extend markets for coal in opposition to oil fuel…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gold and Minerals Search for Oil and Gold Reports From Fields
The Federal Government is again manifesting interest in the search for oil, on this occasion by aerial survey over the northern section of the continent…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining Mechanics Position at Abermain
The position of mining mechanics in the seniority dispute at Abermain colliery has been thoroughly investigated by the executive of the Federated Mining Mechanics'…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal-oil Fuel Atlantic Test Succeeds British Hopes London
A new vista seems to have opened for the British shipping and coal industry as the result of a test made…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →NEARLY £500,000 WORTH Gold From Sunken Egypt to Be Taken to England Paris, June 23
Divers from the Artiglio have raised several tons of the sunken Egypt's treasures. The vessel's storage-room is filled to its capacity…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Ton of Gold Salvaged Egypt's Treasure at £30,000 an Hour (Copyright to "The Sun" and "The Times." Aboard the Artigllo.) Off Brest
Nearly one ton of gold hase been salvaged so far from the sunken liner Egypt, and the average value produced by each shot of the grab it…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Mines Act Surveyors' Examination
Under the Coalmines Amended Act. assented to on October 7, 1931, section 39A (I) provides that "the accuracy of every plan, section, and tracing, which is made…
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