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Northern Rivers · Mining & the mines
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LONDON, Tuesday:--The House of Commons this evening discussed the Gresford Colliery disaster in which 265 lives were lost in September, 1934. Both the opening Opposition speaker, Mr. David Grenfell, himself a miner from his…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gendarmes killed and wounded three when they fired a volley into a group of miners and women demonstrating in support of a stay-in mine…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BUDAPEST, Wednesday:-- Two persons were killed and three were wounded, when gendarmes fired a volley into a group of miners and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SYDNEY, Friday:--The first stay-in strike in N.S.W. coal-mining history began this morning at North Wallarah colliery. Following a dispute with the mine management, 30 employees made their way into the underground workings and declared…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Thursday:--Spanish loyalisct mines played havoc with the insurgent positions in University. City and Carabanchel. Bodies of men…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →BUDAPEST, Thursday:--The deadlock continues at the Funfkirchen mine, from which 20 exhausted miners have been…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The steamer Llandovery Castle, en route to Marseilles from Gibraltar with 300 passengers, struck a mine off…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The deadlock continues between the management and the stay-in strikers at Funfkirchen mine from which 20 exhausted miners have been evacuated…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, Friday:--A message from Marseilles states that the steamer Llandovery Castle, on the way to Marseilles from Gibraltar with 300 passengers, struck a mine off Cape Cerbere, where the Franco-Spanish frontier joins the coast,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SYDNEY, Sunday-- Women were given the credit of settling the stay-in strike at North Wallarah colliery, near Swansea, which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Despite an 8 per cent increase in wages, almost the whole of 4200 coalminers resorted to a stay at home strike, demanding the reinstatement…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A strange story of an alleged theft of gold was told in the Greymouth Magistrate's Court, New Zealand, recently…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Although only one third of the maximum output achieved in 1903, the production of gold in Australia during 1936 was the highest since…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fifteen thousand of the Aga Khan's religious followers to-day witnessed the elaborate ceremony of the weighing of the Aga Khan with a view to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →NEW YORK, Monday:--Mr. Dow (Australian trade representative in America), in an address to the Export Managers' Club, said that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Monday:-- Lloyd's have increased the insurance premium on ships passing the Straits of Gibraltar from 2- to 5-…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two miners, Peter Johnstone (50) and Thomas Thomson (38) were killed by a fall of coal in a mine at Ohai, Southland, to-day. Other miners…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Although it at first seemed possible that a general strike would take place on the northern coalfields owing to the management of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →GRAFTON, Wednesday:--Percy Christopherson, of Bostobrick, was buried under tons -of earth at Bobo gold mine to-day and when rescuers…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →JOHANNESBURG.--The famous "Pioneer Book," which has lain open for signature in Johannesburg for a year will carry the signatures of…
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