Explosion in English Colliery London, March 21
An explosion occurred in the Mossfield colliery, Stoke-on-Trent. Eight miners were killed and four seriously injured. See Rowland Clark about your eyes!…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1940
2,068 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 31 of 104
Victorian Gold Yield Increased Melbourne
The gold yield for Victoria for February—14,401 ounces fine—showed an increase of 3021 ounces compared with the corresponding month last year…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Questionnaire Forms Not Ready Miners' Pensions Inquiry SYDNEY
Mr. Campbell Roy, miners' advocate on the Pensions' Commission, said to-day he had been informed by the Statisticians' Department that additional…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shiftman's Death First Fatality at Mine in 52 Years
"It was the first fatality at the mine, which has been working 52 years," said Senior Inspector R. P. Jack, of the Department of Mines, at the inquest at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Further Rise for Miners in Britain London, March 21
British miners will receive a further increase of 4d a shift, making a total war-time advance of 7d, as a result of the rise in the cost of living. A further…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Defied Court in 1929" Miners Charge Owners "Claims Exceptionally Modest"
The statement of the Secretary of the Northern Collieries' Association (Mr. C. F. Mallett), in which he alleged that Communists were behind every move to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Surprise by Gold Salute Defeats High Caste in Gallop at Randwick Final Trials for Doncaster Sydney
Gold Salute defeated High Caste on the A grass track (40 feet out) at Randwick this morning. That was the chief surprise associated with the final Doncaster gallops. Admittedly Gold Salute is a splendid track worker, but…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Queensland Coal Owners No Dealings With Men Yet BRISBANE
An emphatic refusal to have any dealings with the Committee of Management of the Queensland Colliery Employees' Union as it was at present constituted…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Drugged Before Rescue Man Buried Under 25 Tons of Coal SYDNEY
Buried under 25 tons of coal at the works of Australian Glass Ltd, in Dowling-street, Waterloo, this afternoon, when a coal hopper collapsed, William…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Worth Million and Half Queensland's Gold Output Last Year BRISBANE
Gold won in Queensland in 1939 was worth £1,428,600 in Australian currency. The actual yield was 147,248 fine ounces, compared with 151,432 ounces in 1933…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wool & Wheat Wealth Bridged by Gold
Gold was discovered on the Peel Estate in March 1852. The effect was electrical. Shepherds and all hands joined in the rush to the goldfields at Hanging Rock, and the man who had a frying pan, shear blade and calabash was well equipped…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Yachts Spread Their Sails on Lake Miners Under Canvas
Putting pep into their job—Missis Rona Young, Marjorie Todd, June Harris, Norma Sage and Beth Steel shows the yachtsmen how it should be done…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gold Salute and Ajax Victoria Park Gallops SYDNEY
Ajax and Gold Salute provided the highlights at Victoria Park this morning. At Victoria Fork AJjx was given…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Alan Cooper's Outburst Criticises Handicapper "Gold Salute Unfairly Treated" Sydney
Most big meetings at Randwick or Flemington are marked by some spectacular action by Mr. Alan Cooper. This time Mr. Cooper gained prominence…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Rothbury Men and Strike Issue To Be Raised To-morrow Deputation From Miners' Federation
The Rothbury men will be asked by the Northern Miners' Management to-morrow to join the strike, on terms providing for their admission forthwith to the Miners' Federation, and inclusion in the strike relief docket issues…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Lastlonger Than Coal Stocks" Orr's Hopes on Strike Sydney
"We will last longer than the coal stocks," the General Secretary of the Miners' Federation (Mr. W. Orr) said to-day, when…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Rothbury Decision To-day Miners Invited to Join Strike Relief Pay Promised
Rothbury miners, who have remained at work since the general cessation of coal production on March 11, will be asked to stop…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Most Rothbury Men at Work Meeting With Coal Union Leaders Further Conference on
About 25 men from the 300 employed at Rothbury mines attended a mass meeting at North Rothbury to-day to hear the Northern Miners' Federation terms for their admission to the federation…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →New German Torpedo Dropped from Bomber Becomes Mine If It Misses Target (Australian Associated Press.) LONDON, March 25
Officials of the British Admiralty are examining a new type of German torpedo, which was washed ashore four miles south of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Labour Exemption Application by Collieries Company
Hetton Bellbird Collieries Ltd. has applied to the Mining Registrar at East Maitland (Mr. A. D. Tyler) for an exemption of labour conditions over all…
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