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Southern Highlands · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1927

12 stories in Southern Highlands's papers

The Coal of the Society

Robertson Mail · Friday 8 April 1927 · page 2

Thanking Professor Sauer for his kindness in giving a piano and violin recital in aid of the funds, the president of the Eisteddfod Society, Mr…

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Mining at Marulan. Southern Portland Cement Company. Warden Deals with Application

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 25 May 1927 · page 4

Business at the Goulburn Mining Warden's Court on Friday morning chiefly concerned two applications by the Southern Portland Cement…

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Mine Months Gaol. Sentence for Hotel Theft

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 11 June 1927 · page 2

The Goulburn Police Court on Tuesday morning (says the "Post") resembled portion of a pawnbroker's establishment or a laundry…

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Coal Baron v. Shire. Dispute Overland Values

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 22 June 1927 · page 4

John Brown millionarie has stripped to fight Gundagal Shire Council says the "Independent." John Brown thinks Gundagai Shire…

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Boring For Coal

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 6 July 1927 · page 2

Messrs. Hoskins and Co., of Port Kembla, are installing a diamond drill in the vicinity of Mount' Murray, where the coal seams are to be tested…

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British Miners. Mr. Cook Appeals for "Action" London, August 14

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 17 August 1927 · page 2

Mr. A. J. Cook, secretary of the Miners' Federation, in a rallying speech at Durham appealed to miners to co-operate in the…

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New Gold-bearing Reef Discovered. at Bushy Hill, Near Cooma

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 17 September 1927 · page 2

Mr. Stratman reports having discovered a new reef at Bushy Hill, which is situated 125 yards south of No. I North shaft…

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Extracting Oil From Shale and Coal. New Enterprise at Reidy Creek. Are the Glories of Old Joadja to Be Revived ?

The Southern Mail · Friday 23 September 1927 · page 2

The search for gold has taken men to queer places. Winter snows and summer heat, barren wastes and verdant gullies, all alike have attracted…

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Extracting Oil From Shale and Coal. New Enterprise at Reidy Creek. Are the Glories of Old Joadja to Be Revived?

Robertson Mail · Friday 23 September 1927 · page 2

The search for gold has taken men to queer places. Winter snows and summer hent, barren wastes and verdant gullies, all alike have attracted…

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Fatal Mining Accident

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 2 November 1927 · page 2

Mr. George Hill, well-known in Mittagong, succumbed to the injuries received through a fall of coal on Sunday, 16th October, while…

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Hearts of Gold

The Southern Mail · Friday 23 December 1927 · page 5
Also in Robertson Mail

Though poets have not yet sung you Nor writers your true worth told, I, who have wrought among you, I know you for Hearts of Gold !…

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