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Northern Rivers · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1927

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Miners to Resume Work Melbourne

Northern Star · Saturday 2 April 1927 · page 5

Miners at Wonthaggi decided at a stop work meeting last night to resume work. Several weeks ago they refused to work with a man engaged to take the place of a…

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From Despair to Joy. Entombed Miners Escape

Tweed Daily · Saturday 2 April 1927 · page 5

MONTREAL, Thursday. — A Pittsburg message states that over 300 min[?]rs, for whom hope almost was abandoned when they were…

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Joyous Relief All Entombed Miners Safe Pittsburgh

Northern Star · Saturday 2 April 1927 · page 5

Over three hundred miners for whom hope was almost abandoned when they were entombed by an explosion at Pennsylvania Corporation mine yesterday escaped uninjured…

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Explosion in Mine Vancouver

Northern Star · Monday 4 April 1927 · page 5

A Cokeburg (Pennsylvania) message says that six miners' were killed and five injured and 400 rescued, on Saturday in a coal dust explosion…

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Moonembar Coal Mine

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Wednesday 6 April 1927 · page 1

Definite steps were taken at a meeting held at Lismore last Tuesday for floating a company in connection with this mine. Mr. C. McKenzie, solicitor,…

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10,000 Miners Resume. Norrnay Conditions in Few Days

Tweed Daily · Thursday 7 April 1927 · page 2

CESSNOCK, Wednesday.--After a long idleness, as the result of the deputies trouble,10,000 miners resumed work to-day. It is expected that it…

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Bankrupt's Luck Losses Recouped on Gold Field Every Penny Repaid Storekeeper Turns Gold Seeker Sydney

Northern Star · Thursday 7 April 1927 · page 5

An interesting story of a declared bankrupt's change of fortune was told in the Bankruptcy Court to-day when Harold Hutchinson declared his intention of…

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Paid Creditors. Bankrupt Retrieves Position on Gold fields

Tweed Daily · Thursday 7 April 1927 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.--An interesting story of a declared bankrupt's change of fortune was told in the Bankruptcy Court to-day, when Harold…

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Royal Train. Beautiful Carriage for Duke. Gold and Red and Blue

Mullumbimby Star · Thursday 7 April 1927 · page 4

Red and gold and blue are the dominant colors of the beautiful railway carriage which is to carry the Duke and Duchess from Murwillumbah to…

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Moonembar Coal Mine

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 8 April 1927 · page 1

Definite steps were taken at a meeting held at Lismore last Tuesday for floating a company in connection with this mine. Mr. C. McKenzie,…

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Moonembar Coal Mine Company Formed

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 8 April 1927 · page 4

The "Richmond River Mining, Electricity and Development Company, Ltd.," with a capital of £20,000 in £1 shares, has been formed for the purpose…

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Coal Exports Decline

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 8 April 1927 · page 2

Sydney, Friday.--As a result of the continuous strikes on the northern coalfields the shipments of coal for the past three months show an…

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Reduced Coal Output

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 8 April 1927 · page 7

SYDNEY, Friday.—Strikes and industrial unrest on the northern coal fields in an enormous reduction of coal exports from Newcastle for the…

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Zane Grey's "Desert Gold"

Northern Star · Friday 8 April 1927 · page 4

"Desert Gold," the new Zane Grey Paramount picture, which will also be screened to-night only, in addition to having a marvellous cast of humans, is the picud…

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Antimony. Mining at Pretty Gully

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 8 April 1927 · page 2

A correspondent writes:—There is likely to be a stir in antimony mining at Pretty Gull[?] Some prospectors and financial men have just been…

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Decreased Coal Production

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 9 April 1927 · page 2

SYDNEY, Friday.--As the result of continuous strikes on the northern coalfields, shipments of coal for the past three months show an enormous…

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Relief for Miners' Families Sydney

Northern Star · Saturday 9 April 1927 · page 5

The Chief Secretary's Department has decided to provide food relief for several miners' families at Greta as the result of the report of Police Inspector Ramsay, who…

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Verge of Starvation Miners' Families State Relief

Tweed Daily · Saturday 9 April 1927 · page 5

SYDNEY, Friday.-- The Chief Secretary's Department has decided to provide food relief for several miners' families at Greta, as the result of a…

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Fatal Mine Explosion. Fractured Live Wire

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Wednesday 13 April 1927 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday—A fractured live wire caused an explosion, following the fall of a roof at Wharncliffe Colliery, Barnelly, entombing 15 minors…

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Sale of Coal Council As Retailers. Requests Refused

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Wednesday 13 April 1927 · page 2

The Casino Council last night decided that it would not enter into the business of retail coal merchants…

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