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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Mining & the mines
36 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 2
Second only to the miners' call for men is the miners’ call for steel to build the equipment which will make the miners’ work result in a maximum tonnage of coal at the surface. British miners are as good as any; then natural conditions no…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →J O’Keefe, a miner at Captain’s Flat had 23 stitches-inserted in a gash to the right arm on Saturday night. The injury was received at a boarding…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On January 1st Britain began exporting 2,00,000 tons of coal a week an increase of 8,000 tons a week on the top figure which previously had…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tarago Branch of the C.W.A. had its first meeting of the year recently. Mrs. G. A. Pockley presided in the unavoidable absence of the President…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →From an old "Dispatch" dated 1891, kindly forwarded to in by the well-known historian. Mr. W. A. Bayley, we take the following, which will make…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →John Scott Hyndley was barn in 1883, and was educated at Timsbury School, Eastbourne, and Weymouth College. He started work at a Durham coal mine and spent six months travelling round the workings, subsequently he became a junior clerk in a firm of Sunderland…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr F. Gallagher, chairman of the Central Coal Reference Board, who has refused to rescind his order…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The recently formed Queanbeyan Racing Club held its inaugural meeting on Saturday last and this proved a great success, not…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Many people are apt to think of miners as tough individuals, coal-grimed and' heavy-handed. Maybe they are all that—they have to be…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →To the Scottish Division of the National Coal Board went the honour of opening a regular coal export programme. December 1947 saw the first shipments to Sweden by the S.S. Vestra, closely followed by two other Swedish colliers. Now this Swedish trade is taking on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Yesterday at the Queanbeyan Court House, the Coroner, Mr. P. G. Ruffles, held an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A London architect has been given he task of designing a complete new own in the Forth of England Contruction will be begun well before…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lake George Mines Ltd. has completed the repayment of a loan of £726,771 (£stg561,317) to the parent company, Lake George Mining Corp…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At the Warden's Court on Tuesday, at Braidwood, applications by C. D. Stalker and Colin Arnold for authority to enter on an area in the parish of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →At the Wardens Court at Braidwood on Tuesday, before the Mining Warden, Mr. Hook, Alan Hewitt Dutton, mining engineer 193 Newton Street, Broken…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →At the Warden's Court at Braidwood on Tuesday last, before Mr. G. C. Hook, hints were given that there was a likelihood of a big mining…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The price of wool has been considered by many people to have been , very high. It is decidely higher than immediately prior to the war, the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report:— The price of wool has been considered by many people to have been very high. It is decidedly higher…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The annual convention in Sydney of the State division of the Liberal Party called on the Federal Government to appoint a Royal Commission…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At Nundle, 37 miles from Tamworth, Alex Tarvainen, prospector, a native of Finland, claims to have unearthed a rich gold-bearing reef,…
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