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Northern Rivers · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1924

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Coal Strike Miners' Union's Threat

Northern Star · Wednesday 23 July 1924 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The central council of the Workers' Industrial Union, of which the coal miners are part, has made a demand on the proprietors of the mines for a…

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Shorter Hours Wanted. Threatened Coal-strike

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Wednesday 23 July 1924 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The central council of the Workers' Industrial Union, of which the coal miners are part, has made a demand on the…

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Rich Queensland Mine

Northern Star · Thursday 24 July 1924 · page 5

BRISBANE, Wednesday.—A pareel of two and a quarter tons of ore from the Duke mine at Ravenswood, which was sent to Port Kembla to be assayed, showed a return…

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Coal Strikes Balmain Colliery Stops Work

Northern Star · Friday 25 July 1924 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday.—The men employed at the Balmain Colliery held a stop-work meeting to discuss the alleged refusal of the proprietors to concede increased boring rates…

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Unsettled Coal Miners. Numerous Stoppages

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 25 July 1924 · page 7

SYDNEY, Friday.—The men employed at the Balmain colliery held a stop work meeting to discuss the alleged refusal of the proprietors to concede…

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Eleven Mines Idle

Northern Star · Friday 25 July 1924 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Alleging that outside men were given preference over them, several second-class shiftmen at the Lambton D. Colliery stopped work to-day. Their…

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Gold Ingot Recovered Vevby

Northern Star · Saturday 26 July 1924 · page 3

The Geneva police have arrested two street sweepers who are accused of stealing a bar of gold lost seven years ago by an employee of a firm of ewellers who was…

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Where Are They? New Guinea's Oil Beds Coal in New Ireland

Tweed Daily · Saturday 26 July 1924 · page 5

SYDNEY, Friday.—Mr. C. H. Campbell, representing the Pacific Islands Investment Company, who arrived at Sydney with Mr. R. A; Hanlin to-day,…

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Tweed P.p. Union Motions for Quarterly Meeting Gold Storage for Butter

Northern Star · Saturday 26 July 1924 · page 6

The following motions, submitted by various branches, will be considered at the quarterly meeting of the Tweed District Council of the Primary Producers' Union to be held…

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Richmond Range Coal

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Monday 28 July 1924 · page 2

An assay of a sample of coal from the range mine, particulars of which have been made available, gives encouraging results to members of the…

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Communistic Miners

Northern Star · Wednesday 30 July 1924 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The lenders of the Miners'. Federation deprecate the latest action by the "red" element on the coalfields, winch they declare does not represent…

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Gold. Discovery of Rich Alluvial Field

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 30 July 1924 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday.--Rich alluvial gold has now been discovered at Bribaree mining field, thirty miles west of Young. In addition to reefs being…

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Richmond Range Coal

Tweed Daily · Thursday 31 July 1924 · page 2

An essay of a sample of coal from the range mine, Richmond River, particulars of which have been made available, gives encouraging results to…

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Unemployed Miners

Northern Star · Friday 1 August 1924 · page 5
Also in Tweed Daily

SYDNEY, Thursday.—A deputation interviewed the Acting Premier, Mr. Wearne, and urged that the Government should find work for unemplyed miners in the northern,…

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Coal Lumpers' Pay

Tweed Daily · Friday 1 August 1924 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday.—When the Coal Lumpers' Union applied to Mr. Justice Edmunds, in the Industrial Arbitration Court to-day, for an award, it was…

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Casino Gold Ball

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 1 August 1924 · page 2

On Wednesday evening last a gold ball was held in the Masonic Hall, which proved most successful from both a social and financial point of view…

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Still Growing. Queensland Gold Yield

Tweed Daily · Friday 1 August 1924 · page 4

The gold yield of Queensland for the month of June and for the six months of the year, shows a substantial increase over the 1923 periods…

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Rich Gold Field

Northern Star · Saturday 2 August 1924 · page 4

PEETH, Friday.—Over 300 ounces of gold have been obtained by Messrs. Carlson and son within a week from the new find on the Caledonia Flat. The lode was struck four…

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Fair Pickings. Gold Diggers in Westralia

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 2 August 1924 · page 2

PERTH, Friday --Over 300 ounces of gold have been obtained by Carlson and Son within a week from the new find on the Caledonia Flat. A lode was…

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