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Mining & the mines, 1929

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Financial Letter the Coal Conference

Daily Advertiser · Monday 8 April 1929 · page 3

A conference has been called by Mr. Bruce and Mr. Bavin in connection with the stoppage of the coal fields, which will be presided over by Sir…

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Coal Crisis Conference To-day Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 8 April 1929 · page 6

The conference between representatives of the coal miners and the colliery owners, convened by the Prime Minister, Mr. Bruce, and the Premier, Mr…

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Tasmanian Mining Disaster 14 Persons Missing Launceston

Daily Advertiser · Monday 8 April 1929 · page 1

Further particulars of the terrible disaster at the mining town of Derby yesterday indicate that the missing now total 14…

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Mining Industry To-days's Conference Union Secretaries Hopeful Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 8 April 1929 · page 5

The general secretary of the Federated Engine-drivers and Firemen's Association, Mr. J.T. Atkins, who wil be one of the mining industry unions'…

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Coal Crisis Important Conference Address Bt Mr. Bruce Drastic Action Will Not Meet Situation Proposals Submitted to Miners' Delegates Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 9 April 1929 · page 1

An important conference between miners, mine owners, and representatives of the Federal and State Governments, opened in the Sydney Town…

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Albury, Gold Cup Strong Field of Twelve

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 9 April 1929 · page 4

The Albury Gold Cup meeting will be held on Wednesday and Thursday, and the prospects are for a very successful meeting. As usual, there has…

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Tasmanian Floods Mine Manager's Heroism Death Rool Exceeds 20 HOBART

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 9 April 1929 · page 1

The survivors of the dam disaster at Derby last week agree that the assistant manager of the Briseis mine, Mr. W.A. Beamish lost his life in trying…

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Coal Conference Deliberations Resumed Case for Owners Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 10 April 1929 · page 4

The coal conference was resumed at the Town Hall to-day. Putting the case on behalf of the owners, Mr. C.M. M'Donald said that…

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Latest City News a Levy on Miners . SYDNEY, To-day

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 11 April 1929 · page 2

The Queensland coalminers, from to-morrow, will be called . upon to submit to a levy of 12 h per cent, on their wages, in aid of the N.S.W…

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[?]Oal Crisis Outlook More Hopeful Miners Submit Proposals Conference to Resume To-day SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 11 April 1929 · page 2

The outlook is more hopeful for the settlement of the coal trouble. At the conference to-day miners' representatives submitted proposals providing for…

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Albury Gold Cup Promise for 1931

Daily Advertiser · Friday 12 April 1929 · page 3

Mr. Sol Green congratulated the committee at the Albury Racing Club very heartily on the excellence of the Cup meeting, and in doing [?] offered a…

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Wagga Gold Cup Trophy on View in Wagga

Daily Advertiser · Friday 12 April 1929 · page 3

The Wagga Gold Cup for 1929, to be raced for on the Murrumbidgee Turf Club's course on Wednesday next, is now on view in the window of Maples,…

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Coal Industry Why Prosecution Was Withdrawn penalties for Strikes and Lockouts Should They Be Abolished? Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Friday 12 April 1929 · page 5

The Prime Minister, Mr. Bruce, said to-day that a serious misunderstanding had arisen in the press regarding what he said at the co[?] conference in…

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Wagga Gold Cup

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 13 April 1929 · page 4

The Mu[?]mbidgee Turf Club's Cup meeting to be held on Wednesday and Thursday next promises to be the best ever staged by this old established…

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Alleged Lockout Withdrawal of Prosecution Miners' Secretary's Statement SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 13 April 1929 · page 6

The general secretary of the Miners' Federation, Mr. G. L. Davies, referring to the prosecutions against Messrs. J. and S. Brown, for an alleged lockout,…

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Gold Cup Dinner Millionaire Owner's Lavish Dinner London

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 13 April 1929 · page 6

One of the most elaborate dinners in London since the war was given in h[?] of [?] the winner of the Chellenham Gold Cup and second in…

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Financial Letter Shipping and Coal Conference

Daily Advertiser · Monday 15 April 1929 · page 3

The two conference which have been held since we last wrote, the first in connection with the overseas shipping and the second in connection with…

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Wagga Gold Cup

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 16 April 1929 · page 2

The Murrumbidgee Turf Club's Gold Cup meeting to be to-morrow and Thursday (both commercial half-holidays) promises to be the best ever…

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Booth License for Gold Cup Meeting

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 16 April 1929 · page 3

At the Wagga Licensing Court yesterday, before Mr. D. F. Parker, L.M., Mrs. A. C. Webster, of Scott's Hotel, Wagga, applied for a publican's license…

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Coal Position Conference Resumes To-Morrow SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 16 April 1929 · page 1

Both parties to the coal conference, which resumed its sitting in Sydney to-day, held preliminary meetings…

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