Measles on Ship Taking Lord Gowrie to New Guinea Vice-Regal Party Flies to Goldfields MELBOURNE
Daily Advertiser · Saturday 14 August 1937 · page 8
The secretary of the Naval Board (Mr. Max Mucandie) said to-day that he had received confirmation of the report than an outbreak of measles had occurred on H.M.A.S. Australia, which…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Miners Idle To Discuss Agreement SYDNEY
Cootamundra Herald · Monday 16 August 1937 · page 1
All miners on the northern coalfields were idle to-day, while a stopwork meeting of the men discussed the new agreement reached at the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gold Digging Days Before Sofala— and Later Turon Floods (Copyright)
Daily Advertiser · Monday 16 August 1937 · page 2
Let us look back at Sofala before it was Sofala, when the pellucid waters of the Turon glided over the smooth, round pebbles, unstained by the dyes of alluvial mining operations. The valley hills were there, but they were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mine Fatalities Department Concerned at Increase Injuests Into Deaths at Pelaw Main Kurri Kurri
Daily Advertiser · Monday 16 August 1937 · page 1
The Mines Department is taking a very serious view of the alarming increase in the number of fatal mine accidents…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New Zealand Coal Mines Idle Auckland
Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 17 August 1937 · page 2
All coal mines in the Huntley (N.Z.) district, except Pukumiro, are idle owing to a dispute regarding the conditions of employment of one man…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Agreement Overwhelming Majorities NEWCASTLE
Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 17 August 1937 · page 1
Aggregate meetings of the miners yesterday accepted the new agreement reached at the recent compulsory conference. The decision was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mines Agreement Accepted on Coalfields Overwhelming Majorities Newcastle
Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 17 August 1937 · page 2
Aggregate meetings of the miners to-day accepted the new agreement reached at the recent compulsory conference. The decision was overwhelmingly in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Dispute Increased Prices SYDNEY
Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 18 August 1937 · page 1
A meeting of the coal owners from the northern, southern, and western districts, which was to have been held this morning to fix an increase of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miner Injured by Falling Coal Cessnock
Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 18 August 1937 · page 3
Adam Todd, aged 40 years, miner, living at Aberdare, had his skull fractured by a fall of coal to-day. His Conditions is critical…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners Agree on Southern and Western Fields Sydney
Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 18 August 1937 · page 1
Aggregate meetings in the Western and southern districts to-day endorsed the agreement reached between the miners and coal owners last week,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New Guinea Gold Restriction on Prospecting Melbourne
Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 18 August 1937 · page 3
The Minister in Charge of Territories (Sir George Pearce) said to-day that the Government did not intend to lift the ban on companies which were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Price of Coal 30 Per Cent. Increase Expected "Strikes and Chaos the Only Alternative" SYDNEY
Daily Advertiser · Thursday 19 August 1937 · page 1
A meeting of the coalo[?] from the northern, southern, and western fields, which was to have been held this morning to fix the increase in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →South Coast Miners Negotiations for Wage Agreement Sydney
Daily Advertiser · Saturday 21 August 1937 · page 6
Representatives of the Miners' Federation and the southern colliery proprietors met in Sydney to-day under the chairmanship of Mr. Justice…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Railway Coal Supplies Tenders Accepted at Higher Cost Sydney
Daily Advertiser · Saturday 21 August 1937 · page 4
The Railway Department announces that tenders have been accepted for coal supplies to the department during the year starting on October 1 next…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gold Digging Days The First Gold Escorts Murder of Constable Codrington (Copyright)
Daily Advertiser · Monday 23 August 1937 · page 2
The winning of gold from the earth was the concern of the miner, its safe transport from the field to the Mint in Sydney was the task and responsibility of police escorts. It was risky work, but, taking into consideration the isolation…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Clydesdales Gold Digger Champion Horse
Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 25 August 1937 · page 5
Clydesdales represented a strong class, and most sections were well filled, giving the judge, Mr. A. W. Cunnington, plenty to do to select the winners. In…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gold Find at West Wyalong Field
Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 26 August 1937 · page 2
At West Wyalong considerable interest is being displayed in the discovery of a gold-bearing reef by a sewerage excavation gang. It is reported…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Atlantic Flight to See a Boxing Match Eight Welsh Miners Want to Charter ‘Plane for Farr-louis Flight
The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 26 August 1937 · page 3
Even a millionaire might hesitate at the expense of flying across the Atlantic merely to see a boxing match. But this is the project now…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Coolamon Venture a Layman Looks at a Gold (I) Mine
Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 27 August 1937 · page 2
“There’s gold in them thar hills,” are the old miner Let us for the sake at pence [?] it and the fact will still [?] that for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gold Rod Falls While Galloping
Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 27 August 1937 · page 2
The Epsom favorite, Gold Rod, fell while galloping fast at Randwick today. He was not hurt so far as could be seen, but it may be some time…
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