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Mining & the mines, 1938

655 stories in Riverina's papers · page 26 of 33

Coal Seam in Garden London

Daily Advertiser · Monday 3 October 1938 · page 1
Also in Cootamundra Herald

A family at Leeds, in digging an air-raid shelter in the back garden, struck a seam of coal from which they have already taken two tons…

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Prehistoric Man Early Opal-mining

Daily Advertiser · Monday 3 October 1938 · page 6

Opal-mining on an extensive scale may have brought traders from the Mediterranean to East Africa in pre­historic times. This is the tentative…

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Looking Backward The Adelong Goldfield PART 9 the Fossickers—lee Loong—watson's Sawmill—a Garden of Memory (Copyright) the Fossickesrs

Daily Advertiser · Monday 3 October 1938 · page 2

On almost every gold rush the white man has been first on the field and taken the cream of the golden wealth, while the Chinese have followed on a…

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Wonthaggi Coal Mine Boycott Threat Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 4 October 1938 · page 3

Unless numbers of the Deputies Union cease their safety and maintenance work in the State Coal Mine at Wonthaggi within 24 hours, they…

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British Miners' Offer to Support Spanish Children London

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 4 October 1938 · page 5

British miners agreed to support 1OOO destitute Spanish children for seven months in homes erected by the Republican Government in Spain…

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Fertilisers Banned by N.s.w. Railways Coal Strike Result

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 4 October 1938 · page 6

It was announced last week that because of the coal strike restrictions on the transport of goods by rail will be imposed in New South…

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Coal Supplies Getting Short Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 5 October 1938 · page 1

It was reported in semi-official circles today that the Australian Gaslight Company will have exhausted its coal stocks by next week, unless the…

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Coal Strike Conference Minister Again to Meet Parties SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 5 October 1938 · page 1

The meeting yesterday between mine owners and representatives of the Miners' Federation and kindred unions, presided over by the Minister…

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Coal Strike No Agreement at Yester­day's Conference Minister Again to Meet Parties SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 5 October 1938 · page 4

The meeting held to-day between mine owners and representatives of the Miners' Federation and kindred unions, presided over by the Minister…

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The Coal Strike

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 6 October 1938 · page 2

The conference on the cool trouble, adjourned from yesterday, is still sitting today as we write, but a message came through from the Member for…

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Miners Go to Court . Interim Injunction Granted

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 6 October 1938 · page 2

In the Gundagai Warden’s Court last Tuesday, before the Warden (Mr. F. Grugeon) Arthur B. Hogan, of Tumut, sought an injunction…

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Four Mine Explosions Only Slight Damage SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 6 October 1938 · page 1

Four loud explosions occurred late last night in the vicinity of Rothbury Estate, where small mines are being worked with free labor. It is believed…

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Coal Strike Yesterday's Conference Minister May Make Statement SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 6 October 1938 · page 4

The Minister for Labor and Industry (Mr. Mair) declared in the Legislative Assembly to-day that, following a con­ference between the parties to the coal…

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Coal Strike Minister Submits a Formula Owners Accept It SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 6 October 1938 · page 1

It was reported today that the Minister for Labor (Mr. Mair) submitted to the mine owners and mining unions a formula for the settlement of the…

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Gold-dredging Lease Farmer's Protest "Protection Was Assured"

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 7 October 1938 · page 3

MR. GEORGE LUFF, of Glenby. Tumblong, in a letter to the Editor of the "Sydney Morning Herald," protesting against the granting of…

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Explosions in Mine Man Who Posed As Newspaper Photographer Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 7 October 1938 · page 4

The police learned that three hours before the explosions at North Rothbury last night a man representing himself as a newspaper photographer…

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Telegraphic News Prospect of Settlement of Coal Strike SYDNEY

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 7 October 1938 · page 2

The formula for the settlement of the coal dispute submitted to the mine owners, and the mining unions by the Minister for Labor (Mr. Mair)…

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Formula Accepted to End Australia's Coal Strike! Resumption of Work Expected Next Tuesday Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 7 October 1938 · page 1

The Minister for Labor and Industry announced in the Legislative Assembly yesterday afternoon that at a conference held that morning between himself and representatives of the miners, a formula for a settlement of the coal strike had been…

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Warden's Court Thursday, October 6 (Before Mr. A. B. Collins, Mining Warden)

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 7 October 1938 · page 2

Edward Farrell applied for authority to enter on 26 acres of portion 80, parish Fennell, to search for gold. Mr. W. D. Coogan appeared for the…

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