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Mining & the mines, 1928

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New Air Service New Guinea Goldfields Port Moresby

The Sun · Friday 6 January 1928 · page 11

Belonging to the Bulolo Air Service, two 'planes--a Bristol Fighter and a DH9--both of the New Guinea goldfields service, were tended from the…

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1000 Miners on Strike Two More Collieries Cease Work Dispute Over Working Conditions

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 January 1928 · page 3

WESTON, Friday. -- Ove r 1000 men are now idle owing to a dispute at Hebburn No. 2 Colliery. Hebburn No. 1 and Elrington have…

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The Miners Pay!

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 7 January 1928 · page 1

Only tangible asset of the "Labor Daily" is shown as land, buildings, plant, stock, fittings, and sundry debtors £71,111…

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Winning and Working the World's Coal Miners' Welfare Fund the Baddeley Report No. 6

The Labor Daily · Saturday 7 January 1928 · page 10

IN this, the sixth instalment of the report, Mr. Baddeley gives some interesting details of the working of the Miners' Welfare Fund of Great Britain, and an account of further research work in connection with the explosive nature of coal-dust and the application…

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Price of Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 January 1928 · page 17

Gold was quoted in London on Thursday at [?]4/11[?] per oz. fine, our correspondent cables, a rise of /[?] on the day…

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Must Miners Starve? Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Saturday 7 January 1928 · page 6

[?] miners are experiencl[?] an [?]lable time prer[?] to the holiday there were three blanks pays. The mine worked [?] days years and [?]…

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Sugarloaf Mountain Gold Find

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 January 1928 · page 18

Reporting on the receutly-discovered gold find at Sugarloaf Mountain, in rough country, about 12 miles from Eden, Mr. M. B. M'Grath, inspector of mines, says that from the…

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Guinea Gold, N.l

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 January 1928 · page 17

Guinea Gold, N.L., has received radio information from the field superintendent (Mr. E. Broughton Jensen) that a clean up on December 27, of 1500 cubic wards of wash on…

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Gold Discovery Near Eden

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 January 1928 · page 16

The locality of the promising gold find in the vicinity of Sugarl[?]af Mountain, as reported in the "Herald" yesterday, is shown in the above plan. The discovery is within…

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Mining. the Share Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 January 1928 · page 17

The mining share market had another uneventful day. Mt. Isa again had best demand, the turnover just topping 2000 shares and the cash price holding firm at 28/3; most…

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Interest Revived In the Gold Helmet

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 January 1928 · page 35

With the opening of the Maroubra Speedway to-day the interest in the Gold Helmet, the premier motor-cycle racing trophy in Australia, has been…

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Mining Industry. Slackness of Trade. Oversea Competition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 January 1928 · page 16

Mr. C. M. McDonald, chairman of the Northern Collieries' Association, said yesterday that, in view of the unprecedented slackness of trade in the coal industry, a conference…

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Another Market for Our Wool Prospects for Fifteen Million Pounds Worth of Business Millions in Russian Gold Paid to Australia

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 7 January 1928 · page 1

IVAN IVANOVITCH, of Moscow, used to be symbolised as a bear, and latterly as a particularly scarlet devil. In the role of Santa Claus he is a startling novelty. HE PUT £98,000 into Australia's stocking during Xmas week. Not…

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Russian Roubles Pouring Into Australia In A Stream Of Gold That's the Way the Money Goes Pop Goes the "Labor Daily" A. C. Willis Is "Sittin' Pretty--"on What?

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 7 January 1928 · page 1

ALTHOUGH THE MINERS' Federation has paid upward of £100,000 in levies, subscriptions, loans, and share capital payments into the "Labor Daily" during the past four years, the whole of the capital payments have "gone into smoke."…

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There's Gold There-Look for it Joe Brown, Old-Timer, Still On the Golden Trail In Central Australia Planning Fresh Search for Rich Field That Was Found But Lost Again

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 7 January 1928 · page 11

IT IS A LONG way from Phillip Street, Sydney, to Phillip Street, Alice Springs, the capital city of Central Australia…

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The Hobby Club Why Fountain Pen Nibs Are Made of Gold?

Sunday Times · Sunday 8 January 1928 · page 2

If you hove ever been fortunate enough in one of our competitions to win a Fountain Pen yon may have w wondered why the nib should be made…

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Mine Reports

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 9 January 1928 · page 20

GUINEA GOLD. -- The company's agent at Rahaul has cabled that the approval of the Deputy-Administrator has been obtained to an application for additional ground along the…

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Colliery Dispute West Maitland

The Sun · Monday 9 January 1928 · page 11

A combined meeting of Hebburn No. I and No. 2, and Eirington Collieries held at Weston on Sunday, decided by a large majority not to…

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Mining. the Share Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 January 1928 · page 13

Falling London metal prices combined with dull week-end conditions to restrict business in Saturday's mining share market to almost minimum volume. Phin Soon weakened…

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1500 Miners on Strike Dispute Over Preference Question

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 9 January 1928 · page 2

WESTON, Sunday. -- One thousand five hundred men are on strike at the B.H.P. Company's collieries at Elrington and the two Hebburns…

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