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Northern Rivers · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1921

928 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 10 of 47

Sweetie O' Mine

Tweed Daily · Monday 21 March 1921 · page 2

You do look chic, but there's one thing missing. What's that, dear! A Handbag, bought at White's…

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The Mining Position. (Reuter.)

Northern Star · Monday 21 March 1921 · page 5

LONDON, Saturday.—The prospect of a peaceful settlement of the miners' wages question has assumed a brighter aspect. There is apparently a great division of opinion…

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Silver Mining at Brisbane

Northern Star · Monday 21 March 1921 · page 4

Two applications for leases under the Mining on Private Property Act, for the district of Coorparoo, have been lodged at the Mines Department. One (says the Bris…

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£14 for Four Days. Mine Boys' Big Pay

Tweed Daily · Monday 21 March 1921 · page 2

At a meeting of the Hebburn Miners' Lodge, at West Maitland, at which the resignations of the officers and committeemen were tendered, as a protest…

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Coal De-control. Attempt at Postponement Defeated. London

Tweed Daily · Monday 21 March 1921 · page 3

The Coal De-Control Bill was read a third time in the House of Commons, despite the Labor Party's attempts to postpone de-control for three months…

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Amusements. William Parnum in Tale of Hidden Gold

Northern Star · Tuesday 22 March 1921 · page 4

William Fahan in an entirely new play is promised to-night to picture rans who attend the Digger Pictures. The Joyous Troublemakers is the title and is listed as…

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Broken Hill Unfit Miners

Northern Star · Wednesday 23 March 1921 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Minister for Mines states the Government have no intention of bringing unfit miners from Broken Hill to work in either the South Coast,…

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Miners' Wages. Yorkshire Miners' Recommendations. a Probable Lock-out. London

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 23 March 1921 · page 3

The Yorkshire Miners' Council decided to recommend that the miners temporarily abandon the policy of the National Wages Board and National…

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Boring for Coal. (Editor. "Star.")

Northern Star · Wednesday 23 March 1921 · page 6

Sir,—Now the Mines Department has agreed to give us £ for £ to bore for [?] the Woodburn people will call a meeting and get a move on at once, and form a small…

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Rich As Ever. Broken Hill Mines

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Wednesday 23 March 1921 · page 6

Giving evidence at Broken Hill before the select committee inquiring in to the decline of the metalliferous mining industry in New South Wales, Mr…

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Overseas Labor. the Coal Trade. (Reuter.)

Northern Star · Wednesday 23 March 1921 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—The unfavorable vote in regard to the coal trade, especially in South Wales, was strikingly admitted by Mr. Hodges, secretary of the Miners'…

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Mining Strike Settled. (Reuter.)

Northern Star · Thursday 24 March 1921 · page 5

CAPETOWN, Tuesday.—Bulawayo's strike has been settled. Work was resumed today. The unions have pledged themselves to recognise the right of the managements…

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Overseas Labor. Reduction of Miners' Wages. (Reuter.)

Northern Star · Thursday 24 March 1921 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday.—The Scottish and North Wales Miners' Unions have followed the South Wales Mines Council's example and are rejecting the coal owners' wages…

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Gold Mining Unprofitable! Why Silver Has Soared

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 25 March 1921 · page 3

Gold mining, even in the very Ophirs and Goleondas of the world, has almost reached the point of being unprofitable. Net because the…

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The Cow -- A Gold Mine Richmond River Dairying. Mr. Walter Bennett's Impressions

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Friday 25 March 1921 · page 4

In his address at a farewell picnic at Dungog to himself, Mrs. Bennett and Miss Bennett, Mr. Walter Bennett, M.L.A., who was here with the…

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Woodburn Coal Seam

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 25 March 1921 · page 7

Sir,-It is now generally known through the "R.R. Herald" and "Star" that Mr. George Nesbitt, M.L.A., and Mr. R. Perdriau, M.L.A., and your humble…

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Gold-notes Trick

Northern Star · Friday 25 March 1921 · page 4

SYDNEY, Thursday.—A newly-arrived English immigrant got into conversation with a well-dressed man, who worked the gold-notes trick on him and secured £40j,…

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Coal. Removing Federal Control

Northern Star · Friday 25 March 1921 · page 4

SYDNEY, Thursday.—A deputation from Newcastle has urged the Prime Minister to remove the Federal control of coal. Mr. Hughes replied the Government would come…

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Bellingen Gold Mine

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Monday 28 March 1921 · page 2

Grafton "Examiner" says great excitement centres about the Villa gold mine, eighteen miles from Bellingen, and it is expected to turn out a big…

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Carpathia Tin Mining Coy

Northern Star · Monday 28 March 1921 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday.—At a meeting of the Carpathia Tin Mining Coy, a shareholder stated that for years past he had heard the Cnrpathia mine was the richest in the State…

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