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Mining & the mines, 1925

4,744 stories in Sydney's papers · page 83 of 238

Skelton Shown Up Propaganda of Confusion Disgusts Miners

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 24 April 1925 · page 4

Mr. Skelton, the Protestant Independent Labor Candidate for Newcastle, addressed a meeting at Kurri during last week. His audience in the main consisted of…

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Wood and Coal Riding Instructions To Win

Country Life Stock and Station Journal · Friday 24 April 1925 · page 11

Explicit instructions to Wallace Mortlake's jockey as to how he should ride to win the Sydney Cup were made by a daily. After his ignominious…

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Miners Murdered Dawes Plan Means Poverty and Death

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 24 April 1925 · page 3

The recent great mining disaster in Dortmund (Germany), when 141 miners were killed as a result of an explosion (as was reported in the “Workers' Weekly” of April…

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South Coast Mines Preparing for Work Wollongong

The Labor Daily · Friday 24 April 1925 · page 3

The executive of the Southern District Miners stated to-day that all matters have been adjusted sufficiently to warrant a start being made in…

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We Buy a Gold Brick Bruce's Loan Harm It Will Do

The Labor Daily · Friday 24 April 1925 · page 1

Twenty million pounds for ten years at 1 percent.--an apparently generous offer, which is a bigger blow at Australian…

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Head of the River Sydney Grammar School the Favorites King's and Shore Strongest Opponents to Black and Gold

Arrow · Friday 24 April 1925 · page 8

For wild. delirious excitement, no aquAtic gathering in Australia approaches the annual regatta of the Athletic Association of the Great Public Schools of…

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Dispute Settled Southern Collieries Resume

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 25 April 1925 · page 10

The Southern Collieries Proprietors Association has announced that matters in dispute at seven of the southern collieries which have been…

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Southern Mines. Disputes Settled

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 April 1925 · page 13

The matters in dispute at the seven southern collieries, which have been idle for three weeks, have been settled, and a general resumption of work will take…

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Death in the Mine the Disaster in Indiana Mines Worked From Top Profits Before Human Lives

The Labor Daily · Saturday 25 April 1925 · page 9

The "One Big Union Bulletin," published by the Winnipeg (Canada) Council of the one Big Union has the following comments on the mine…

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Price of Gold

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 25 April 1925 · page 18
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

Fine gold was quoted to-day at 865 an ounce, a rise of 1d compared with yesterday's quotation. (At the price mentioned the pound sterling would buy gold in…

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Wet Coal Is Costly

The World's News · Saturday 25 April 1925 · page 14

Recent tests by the U.S.A. Bureau of Mines show that the wetting of coal is expensive to the consumer. Fine sizes of both bituminous and anthracite will hold up to…

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Wickham and Bullock Island Coal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 April 1925 · page 15

Wickham and Bullock Island Coal Company discloses a profit of £20,783 for the year ended March 31, compared with £13,557 for the previous year. Including interim…

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Mine Worker Injured. West Maitland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 April 1925 · page 14

Aubrey Coulton, aged 18 years, had a remarkable escape from serious injury at the East Greta Colliery this morning. Working a wi[?], he slipped and fell a distance of…

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Old Gold in New Guinea

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 25 April 1925 · page 18

THE Commonwealth has given substantial evidence of its incapacity to deal with any territorial problem. It has had…

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Mining. the Share Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 April 1925 · page 15

A more confident tone in the mining share market yesterday was the outcome of strong improvemont in metal prices. Much of the leeway of the recent depression was made…

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Kegs of Gold. for the Mint

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 April 1925 · page 13

[?] 65 boxed motor-cycles...1[?] kegs bar gold, said to be valued at 389[?]251[?]24, said to weigh 23[?]667[?]52 ounces fine [?]3[?] pianos. [?] the manifest of the steamer Malakuta, which…

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Graves at Anzac an Anzac Memory of Mine

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 25 April 1925 · page 10

No earth of their own land lies on their graves. No gum-trees wave and whisper over them…

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Murdered Miners Another Disaster Thirty-four Dead Fraudulent "Instructions"

The Labor Daily · Saturday 25 April 1925 · page 10

Another mining disaster ban taken place In the United States. We Lave given an account of the great disaster in Indiana, in which fifty-one…

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No Gold There N. Territory Reports Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Saturday 25 April 1925 · page 1

The Minister for Home and Territories, Senator Pearce, has issued a warning to prospectors I contemplating a search for gold…

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