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Mining & the mines, 1927

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An Occasion for Gold

Evening News · Wednesday 25 May 1927 · page 12

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Northern Mines Thrown Idle Coal Piling Up at Newcastle Because of Strike 4000 Men Did Not Work Yesterday

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 25 May 1927 · page 3

THE COLLIERY OWNERS are viewing with concern the continuation of the dispute at Newcastle involving the coal trimmers and the crane drivers…

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Mining. the Share Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 25 May 1927 · page 17

Continued fall in the prices for lead and zinc caused Barriers to resume a sagging movement in the share market yesterday. Closing quotations were the weakest. After…

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British Miners. Mr. Baddeley's Views. London. May 23

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 25 May 1927 · page 15

A[?]er a tour of the mining districts, during which he descended into 20 collieries, the New South Wales Minister for Labour and lodustry (Mr. J. M. Baddeley) said that…

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Export of Gold. Thirteen Millions, in 14 Months

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 25 May 1927 · page 15

During the past week a million in gold in two parcels of £500,000 each has been exported from Sydney to San Francisco. The shipper was the Commonwealth Bank…

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Gold Edie Creek Report Big Find Rabaul

The Sun · Wednesday 25 May 1927 · page 17

Mr. Livingstone, manager at Edie Creek for Messrs. Royal and Glasson, has reported by radio that he has struck a solid reef in W. G. Royal's…

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Miners Are for Seale All Want Honest Men Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 25 May 1927 · page 6

When the report from the A.L.P. delegates to the Easter Conference was placed before the Northern Delegate Board today it was adopted…

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The Trimmers Strike Results. Many Mines Idle. Shipping Delayed. NEWCASTLE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 25 May 1927 · page 15

No settlement has been effected of the New castle coal trimmers' dispute. Already the results have assumed serious proportions, and to-day six collieries on the Maitland field,…

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Money, Mines & Merchandise City Gossip Orient Coy.'s Capital New Preference Issue London, Tuesday Night

The Sun · Wednesday 25 May 1927 · page 4

At an extra-ordinary meeting of shareholders in the Orient Steam Navigation Co., Ltd., it was resolved to change the [?]ames of the preferred…

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Linbergh's "Pot of Gold" Fortune of a Million Dollars is Offering New York

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 25 May 1927 · page 5

A million dollar pot of gold at the end of his 3600 mile rainbow awaits Lindbergh. With definite offers of 735,000…

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Goldfields Heroine "A Jolly Good Fellow"

The Sun · Wednesday 25 May 1927 · page 6

This morning at a farewell given by the Country Women's Association to Dame Alice Chisholm and Lady Ryrle at the Australia, Mrs. Booth, whose…

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Mine Reports

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 26 May 1927 · page 23

The following mine reports have been issued: -- ADELONG GOLD ESTATES. -- Yield for week ended May 19, 67oz. 15dwt., compared with…

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Coal Shipments

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 26 May 1927 · page 4

The quantity of coal (including bunkers) shipped at Newcastle during the week ended May 21 for places beyond the State was 89,400, tons, of…

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Price of Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 26 May 1927 · page 13

Gold was quoted in London on Tuesday, our correspondent cables at 84/11 per oz fine, a decrease of one halfpenny on the price rulling since May 18…

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Coal, Oil (N.z.), Limited

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 26 May 1927 · page 23

Acting upon the recommendation of Dr. John Wanner, professor of Applied Geology at Bonn University, who discovered the oilfield at Wal[?] N.Z. the directors of Coal, Oil (N.Z.),…

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Shires Aspire to Gold Passes

Evening News · Thursday 26 May 1927 · page 9

WOODBURN Shire moved at the Shires Conference to-day that the Government should be urged to grant one…

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Hill End Gold Show Mudgee

The Labor Daily · Thursday 26 May 1927 · page 8

Mr. E. Goodwin, an experienced mining man, is hopeful that good results will be obtained from a show which be intends testing on the famous Hawkius'…

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Trimmers. Conference Fails. Idle Shipping and Mines. NEWCASTLE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 26 May 1927 · page 11

An attempt made to-day to settle the dispute between the Newcastle Coal-trimmers' Union and the Port Hunter Stevedores' Association terminated in a deadlock…

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Newcastle Trimmers Settlement Prevented by Minor Point Many Miners Are Affected

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 26 May 1927 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Wednesday. -- As the Pakipaki, the steamer over which the coal trimmers' strike occurred, has sailed without bunkers, and no other…

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Delegate Board. Small Mines Cause Much Trouble Federation Action Wallarah Position Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Thursday 26 May 1927 · page 6

The recent award issued to Wallarah, which made no provision for abolishing the system of working four men in a bord, was discussed by the…

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