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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1935

2,598 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 62 of 130

Southern Miners Delegate Board Meets SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 June 1935 · page 9

The Southern Miners' Delegates Board met to-day at Wollongong. The major portion of the morning session was occupied in dealing with the dispute at the…

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Miners' Claims Compensation Commission Four Matters Dealt with

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 June 1935 · page 3

Four matters were dealt with by the Workers' Compensation Commission in Newcastle yesterday. One case was determined, the Commission's decision was…

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Tullamore Mine "Worth More Than Was Given for It" Evidence in £20,000 Claim Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 June 1935 · page 8

Evidence that he was told that the mine was worth £5000 more than had been paid for it was given by a witness when the hearing was continued today in the…

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Wheelbarrow Feats Chief Topic Now on Goldfields Kalgoorlie

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 20 June 1935 · page 12

Over campfires throughout Western Australian goldfields, wheel-borrowing has completely supplanted rich strikes, alluvial rights and the charms and…

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Industrial News Myall Colliery Ban Lifted in 24 Hours Miners' Management Board

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 June 1935 · page 3

The President of the Northern District of the Miners' Federation (Mr. T. Hoare) announced at the adjournment of yesterday's sitting of the Committee of Manage…

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Kurri Mines

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 21 June 1935 · page 8

Pelaw Main Colliery was again working to-day, but Stanford Main No. 1 and Richmond Main remain idle owing to slackness of trade…

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Price of Gold

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 June 1935 · page 20

The price fixed by the Commonwealth Bank, for gold lodged at the Melbourne Mint, for the week ended June 14, is at the rate of approximately £7/19/9 per…

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Federated Mining Mechanics

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 June 1935 · page 3

The President of the Federated Mining Mechanics' Association (Mr. T. G. Moran), at the conclusion of an executive meeting held yesterday, stated that a…

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Southern Miners Strike at the Metropolitan WOLLONGONG

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 June 1935 · page 3

At a meeting of the Southern Miners' Delegate Board, it was decided to uphold the strike of the men employed at the Metropolitan colliery, who are opposed to…

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"Best Mine in the State" Misrepresentation Alleged Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 21 June 1935 · page 8

Tullamore was the best mine of which he had ever heard, was the constant assertion of Walter N. Medcalf, said a director of the…

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Gold and Minerals The Private Observer Reports From Fields (Contributed.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 June 1935 · page 20

Anyone closely following the progress of the goldmining industry since its recent revival must be struck by the disparity between the information which…

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South Africa Prosperous Nation To-day Value of Mines Significance of Racialism (No. 1.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 June 1935 · page 12

Every phase of its economic life flushed with the phenomenal earnings of the goldmines at Johannesburg and elsewhere, South Africa to-day ranks as one of the…

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Convicts Routed Smart Ruse Ends Revolt Mine Set on Fire Smoke Pours Back on Men (Australian Press Association.) LANSING (Kansas), June 19

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 June 1935 · page 13

The band of 380 convicts who mutinied in the Kansas State Prison coalmine yesterday and seized some of the guards as hostages,…

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Hospital Services Tennant's Creek Goldfield Doctor May Be Appointed Canberra

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 June 1935 · page 16

An air of permanency has been given to the Tennant's Creek goldfield by the decision of the Minister for the Interior (Mr. T. Paterson) to approve of the…

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Tullamore Mine Hearing of £20,000 Claim Mining Engineer in Box Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 June 1935 · page 10

The hearing was continued to-day before Mr. Justice Street and a jury of the case in which the directors of Tullamore Gold Development (No Liability) are…

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Cessnock No. 2 Miners' Lodge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 June 1935 · page 10

The committee of the Cessnock No. 2 Miners' Lodge has recommended the taking of another ballot for the election of officers of the lodge…

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Assurance to Miners No Adult Work for Youths SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 June 1935 · page 10

Commenting on the result of the conference between the Miners' Federation and the State Coal Mine Control Board, at which an assurance was given that…

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Industrial News Open Negotiations Restoration of Reduction Miners' Management Board

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 June 1935 · page 10

The final day's sitting of this week's meeting of the Management Committee of the Northern District of the Miners' Federation, held yesterday, was…

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Food Relief Request by Miners Change in Regulations Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 June 1935 · page 9

At deputation representing all miners throughout the State waited on the Director of Government Relief (Mr. A. T. be a fortnightly computation of the…

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Entombed Miners Petition for Removal in Gresford Pit London. June 3

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 22 June 1935 · page 1

Although the majority of the experts bad decided In favor of abandoning all farther attempts to recover the bodies of the 253…

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