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Mining & the mines, 1925

4,744 stories in Sydney's papers · page 32 of 238

Coal for City Labor and the Contracts Demand for a Lower Rate

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 12 February 1925 · page 1

Alleging that there is a coal monopoly, the Labor section in the City Council has determined to take measures to secure supplies of…

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Much Ado About Little Gold Bullion From America Tory Press Gets Quite Delirious Won't Affect Australian Finance

The Labor Daily · Thursday 12 February 1925 · page 5

THE ARRIVAL OF £250,000 worth of gold bars from San Francisco by the Sierra caused an outburst of quite unnecessary cackle in the columns of the Tory press. BUT THAT SHIPMENT, even when supplemented by others to…

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Colliery Mechanics' Association

The Sun · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 14

The Deputy-Registrar of the Federal Arbitration Court to-day had before him an application on behalf of the Colliery Mechanics' Mutual…

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Mine Explosion. Hundred Miners Missing. Thirty Bodies Recovered. London Feb. 12

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 9

News comes from Berlin of an explosion in a colliery near Dortmund. Router's Dortmund correspondent says that 100 miners are missing. The explosion was…

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Adriatic Wins Decisively Proves a Gold Mine FOR R. MEAD

Arrow · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 5

A horse that can win consistently is always an asset. And Adriatic is proving an asset for his owner (B. Mend), as he has been most consistent…

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Berrima Coal Deposits

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 11

Our Berr[?]a correspondent writes that coal [?] since the holidays has been continued chiefly to surface work. The Loch Catherine Company is preparing the site of a new aerial across the M[?]dway Creek to the…

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Price of Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 11

Gold was quoted in London on Wednesday, our correspondent cables, at 86/10 per oz fine, a decrease of /4 since Monday. At this price the pound sterling would be equivalent…

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Smoke=screens and Coal

The Sun · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 8

"THE fact that the recent coal contract for the civic power-house increases the price of coal to the City Council by at least £16,000, as compared, with the prices for the same quality of coal during the past, year is a matter that not only concerns the Municipal Labor Party, but…

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The City Coal Contracts

Evening News · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 6

There must be a prompt and drastic inquiry into the question of City Coal contracts. Why is the Council asked to pay more…

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Dawes Plan Hated by British Miners

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 3

According to reports of conferences just received from England the attitude of the miners toward the Dawes plan has crystallised into definite and bitter opposition. News…

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Gold Hoarders. Pre-Victorian Sovereigns

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 4

A laborer walked into a Blackburn bank in England a few days ago and surprised the bank officialsby depositing a bad of 990 sovereigns of…

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Late Mining. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 10

Silver: Broken Hill Proprietary, 26/6, b 2[?]/[?] 28/7½; Block 14, pref., b 6/[?] s 7/; Block 14, ord., b 2/11, s 3/1; Junction No[?] 7/7, 7/9, b 7/9, s 7/11; North, [?]/3, [?]/, b 97/9 b 97/6, s 97/9; South, 56/4½,…

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Mining. the Share Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 11

Slight improvement in the prices of lead and tin lent a little support to those divisions of the mining share market yesterday, but generally dull conditions prevailed…

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The Gold Standard London, Thursday Night

Evening News · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 1

Replying to a number of questions in the House of Commons, Mr. Winston Churchill, Chancellor of the Eachequer, said the Government was fully areed…

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Wonthaggi Mine. Continued Idleness. Mr. A. C. Willis's Threat

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 9

A protest against the continued idleness of the Wonthaggi mine was made by Mr. A. C. Willis, general secretary of the Miners' Federation, yesterday. He expressed a threat…

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Explanations Wanted A.L.P. and Coal Contract

The Sun · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 9

Mr. W. Carey, secretary of the A.L.P., stated to-day that there was nothing on the business paper for tonight's meeting of the executive…

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Civic Coal. Recent Contract. No Investigation. Caucus Decision

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 9

The Labour caucus of the City Council, under the presidency of the Lord Mayor (Alderman Stokes), has, it was stated yesterday, decided that there shall be no,…

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Foreign Editor's Diary Britain and France GERMAN & British Coal

Evening News · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 5

BRITAIN: The position in regard to France is evidently becoming extremely interesting as daily papers, supporters of the…

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Entombed Miners Hope Abandoned Dortmund Disaster Harrowing Scenes London. Thursday Night

Evening News · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 1

REUTER'S Dortmund correspondent says that all hope of rescuing any of the 130 miners entombed there through an…

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German Coal Trade. Effect of Dawes Plan. London, Feb. 11

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 9

Mr. A. J. Cook, secretary of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain, made a statement to-night to the effect that the executive of the Miners' Federation were of opinion that…

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