Wonthaggi Mine. Another Man Gassed
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Another miner was badly gassed yesterday while scaling the Wonthaggi mine. Flooding of the mine is being…
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Mining & the mines, 1924
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Better than Wheat, Wool or Gold
Gundagai "Independent" records a discussion on the boom periods which that town has enjoyed in its time. The gold mining period, the…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Premier (Sir George Fuller) promised Mr. Main in the Legislative Assembly to-day, to consider the question of remitting…
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PERTH, Thursday.—In the Legislative Council yesterday it was stated that at Collie the men were working six hours a day. and were producing more coal than any…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.— Two men at Cue, West Australia, have cleaned up 67 tons of ore for the high yield of 897 ounces of gold, worth £4000…
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PERTH, Thursday.—Two men at Cue have cleaned up 67 tons of ore for the high yield of 897 ounces of gold, worth £4000…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bellbird Colliery. Exploration Difficulties
SYDNEY, Friday.--It is now stated that two members of the exploration party of the Bellbird colliery were yesterday so overcome when they reached…
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The views of some English financial authorities on the probability of a return to the gold standard counsel caution. Dr. W. P. Leaf, chairman of the…
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The following interesting article on "The Gold Situation" is taken from the monthly review for June, published by Barelay's Bank; Ltd., London:—…
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WEST MAITLAND, Sunday.—The miners Employed in the six east section of the Pelaw Main colliery are uneasy owing to dust in the mine…
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George Beech (electrical foreman of the Wonthuggi State coal mine) and John Beswick (an overman), who were removed from the burning McBride…
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BRISBANE. Sunday.--New Farm apparently is a favorite haunt of burglars and safeblowers, several thefts having been committed in that district within…
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SYDNEY, Monday.--Giving evidence before the Railways Royal Commission to-day, Mr. J. S. Bragg (secretary of the Lithgow Coal Association), pointed…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A momentous conference was commenced in Sydney to-day to deal with claims from the unskilled employees on the Australian coal fields…
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Great interest is being taken by prominent townsmen in the coal mine at the Range. People are flocking there from all parts at week-ends, the mine being…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Mr. A. C. Willis, president of the A.L.P., referring to the situation created by the refusal of the colliery proprietors to concede the men's…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—The council of the Coal and Shale Employees' Federation sat throughout yesterday considering the next move towards securing…
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KANDOS, Thursday.—A strike occurred at the Kandos colliery over the dismissal of a boy from the works. About eighty men are affected…
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The demand made on the colliery proprietors by Mr. A. C. Willis, president of the A.W.U. and Chairman of the P.L.L., on behalf of the…
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Mr. T. Winterton has received a communication from the acting town clerk of Lismore with reference to the proposed memorial avenue of trees in Molesworth-street…
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