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Riverina · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1928

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New Guinea Gold "The Bubble Burst" Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 23 October 1928 · page 2

During the last few weeks there has been a remarkable boom in Now Guinea gold and osmiridrum shares on the Sydney Stock Exchange, but the…

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Papuan Mining Leases Criminal Writs Issued Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 26 October 1928 · page 2

Criminal Writs have been issued against certain persons arising out of the recent dispute in connection into the gold mining lease at Misima…

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Yours and Mine. (To the Editor.)

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 30 October 1928 · page 1

Sir,—However we may differ about some things, there is one thing on which we all agree—that we have a right to claim all that is our own…

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State Parliament Legislative Assembly Fruit, Flowers, and Coal Taxation and Housing Bills Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 3 November 1928 · page 1

Replying to Mr. Sanders (Nat.) in the Legislative to-day, the Chief Secretary, Mr. Bruntnell, said that he would made inquiries into…

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Melbourne Wharves Police Guard Augmented Lumpers Refuse To Coal Vessels MELBOURNE

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 6 November 1928 · page 2

The police guard on the wharves has been augmented by the addition of troopers and a motor cycle patrol. The police escorted two lorry loads…

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Coal Industry South Australian Tenders Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 10 November 1928 · page 4

The Premier, Mr. Bavin said to-day that as a result of a conference he had with the Premier of South Australia, Mr. Butler, it had been decided…

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Fire in Coal Mine Newcastle

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 15 November 1928 · page 4

A fire broke out in the Wallsend Co-operative mine today. The miners had the day off, and there was no one underground at the time, so the mine…

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Gold 'Plane Art Union

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 15 November 1928 · page 4

Squadon-Leader Kingsford Smith is out to break another record, by raising £30,000 for the deaf, dumb and blind children. He has launched…

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Autographed Photo Gold Plane Worth £1250

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 16 November 1928 · page 8

Kingsford Smith is out to break another record, by raising £30,000 for the deaf, dumb and blind children. He has launched the "Southern…

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Tin Mining Company Buys Queensland Mines London

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 21 November 1928 · page 1

The Wentworth Finance Mining Corporation with a capital of £350,000 has purchased the following Queensland in mines:—The Koorboora Group,…

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Civic Coal Contracts Judge's Report Tabled Some Scathing Comment Johnston and Woof Instigators of Bribery SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 22 November 1928 · page 1

The report of Judge Thompson on the civic Coal Commission was made available to-day. It contained scathing comments on a number of persons…

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Civic Coal Contracts Prosecutions Possible Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 29 November 1928 · page 1

The Civic Commissioners have decided to seek legal advice as to whether it is practicable under the law to take proceedings against any…

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New Guinea Gold Mining Party Sets Out Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 1 December 1928 · page 1

Fully equipped with the latest gold mining plant Messrs. Carghill Milles and Read left Sydney by this Morunda today bound for Mount…

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Broken Hill Mines

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 4 December 1928 · page 2

It was announced by Mr.Bavin in the Assembly, that definite steps were being taken by the Government to open the idle Broken Hill mines…

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Miners Collapse Overcome by Fumes Newcastle

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 5 December 1928 · page 4

While working in the Wallsend Colliery to-day two miners, father and son, were overcome by fumes and collapsed. Other men managed to rush…

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Coal Fumes Father and Son Overcome NEWCASTLE

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 5 December 1928 · page 1

While working in Wallsend Borehole colliery, two miners, father and son, collapsed. Others were affected, but managed to rush out of the pit in…

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Unemployed Miners Migration Only Remedy London

Daily Advertiser · Friday 7 December 1928 · page 3

"The situation to-day in the mining areas in Great Britain is unparalleled," said the Minister for Health, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, at…

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S.A. Coal Tenders Further Postponed Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 7 December 1928 · page 5

The Premier, Mr. Bavin, received a telegram to-day from the Premier of South Australia. Mr. Hill, staging that his Government had decided to…

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Mine Flooded Many Lives Lost Lima (Peru)

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 8 December 1928 · page 1

Deaths, estimated from 27 to 64, are believed to have resulted from the inundation of a gallery in the Campano mine near the Andean mining city of…

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A Gold Finding Machine

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 15 December 1928 · page 11

A recent invention made in the workshops of the London Science Museum is likely to have considerable influence of increasing the world's…

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