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Mining & the mines, 1928

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Gold Cup Polo Matches N.S.W. Fights Hard for Australasian Title

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 23 March 1928 · page 31

ADELAIDE, Thursday. -- In the Australasian Gold Cup polo tournament, played at Birkalla to-day. New South Wales A team defeated South…

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Polo. Australasian Gold Cup. New South Wales v South Australia. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 23 March 1928 · page 17

Exciting games were witnessed in the first found of the competition for the Australasian Gold Cup, which is presented by Messrs. Anthony Hordern, of New South Wales, and R. T. M[?]rose, of South…

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Money, Mines & Markets City Gossip Shrinkage in Imports Big Tin Merger Fall in Imports Values

The Sun · Friday 23 March 1928 · page 6

Contraction of £388,892 in the value of imports into New South Wales during last month, from overseas markets, is reflected in records compiled…

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Cocks' Pioneer Gold

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 24 March 1928 · page 23

Operations of Cocks' Pioneer Gold and Tin Mines, N.L., for the six months ended November 30 last, resulted in a loss of £1571. That amount was transferred to property account,…

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Winning and Working the World's Coal Further Examples of British Methods the Baddeley Report (Continued) No. 17 COLLIERY A. YORKSHIRE

The Labor Daily · Saturday 24 March 1928 · page 10

At this colliery, a similar method of working is adopted to that at Colliery B. The portion of the Barnsley seam we saw being worked varied from 4ft…

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Notes Issue Big Gold Backing

The Sun · Saturday 24 March 1928 · page 2

The Commonwealth note issue on February 27 last amounted to £45,868,226 10s. of which £25,522,827 was held by the public and £20,345,399 10s by the banks. Gold held in…

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Mining. the Share Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 24 March 1928 · page 19

All-round increases in metal quotations saw the share market nearer to buoyancy yesterday than for many weeks. Higher prices ruled almost throughout, indicating a slight return…

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Miners' Ways How Pay Is Lost Dapto

The Sun · Saturday 24 March 1928 · page 7

The ways of the Wongawilli miners are strange, and to the lay mind incomprehensible. This week three days' pay was lost…

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£2000 Bath House for Lihgow Miners Hot or Cold Shower Lithgow

Evening News · Saturday 24 March 1928 · page 3

A £2000 bath house has been constructed at the Hermitage colliery for the use of the miners. Accommodation is provided for 200, and 40…

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To Save the Coal Industry and the Working Class! (To The Editor.)

The Labor Daily · Saturday 24 March 1928 · page 11

Sir.--The "Labor Monthly." of January [?] in reference to Bruce's Anti-Union Hill, states:-- "In order as it were, to suagr-coat a…

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Coal Ills Seven Hours Bill Rejected Lloyd George in Fray London, Friday Night

The Sun · Saturday 24 March 1928 · page 1

A bill, introduced by Mr. Greenall (Lab.), to restore me seven hours' working day in mines, by repealing the Eight Hours' Act of 1926, was…

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Fall of the Morning Star The last of Victoria's Great Producing Gold Mines joins the list of Vanished Camps When two Prospectors found a Fortune because They did what They shouldn't have done

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 24 March 1928 · page 16

WITH THE CLOSING of The Morning Star, Woods Point, the last of the great producing mines of Victoria goes off the list…

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H.C. OF A. C. WILLIS Unionists' £35,671 is now Only £5818 Who'll Repay Miners' Mystery Loan of £3000

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 24 March 1928 · page 10

Since Mr. A.C. Willis, M.L.C., secured the dying "Daily Mail" for the A.L.P., and republished it under the title of "Labor Daily," early in 1924, trades unionists' funds to the extent of £35,671 have been sunk into the…

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Heard by the Way Course of True Love—Who's Lost a Boat?—Gold-Painted Tale—When the Turkeys Dese[?]ted—Killed by Bees, etc. The Course of True Love

Nepean Times · Saturday 24 March 1928 · page 1

THE course of true love may be traced in the eight letters produced at the hearing of a breach of promise case at Bathurst recently…

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Disaster in Mine Timmins (Ontario)

The Sun · Sunday 25 March 1928 · page 1

The Coroner's jury that inquired into the Hollinger mine fire disaster, in which 39 men lost their lives, charged "gross negligence" on the…

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Putting the [?] on Our Silver & Gold Our Own Gold Silver Hall Mark

The Sun · Sunday 25 March 1928 · page 25

HAT is at the back of those little symbols and figures at the back of your sleeve-links or brooch? How many buyers or wearers of jewellery…

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'Green Gold' N.Z's Remarkable Industry Government Co-operates

Sunday Times · Sunday 25 March 1928 · page 9

While immediate attention is from time to time riveted on sensational findings of gold, and wild rushes for the ancient lure result…

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Mining. the Share Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 March 1928 · page 13

Business was of the customary Saturday's small dimensions in the mining share market of the Sydney Stock Exchange. In the silver-lead section, the outstanding feature wits a…

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Delegate Board. Court of Mines Apparent Evasion Further Conference Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Monday 26 March 1928 · page 6

The Miners' Delegate Board expressed its resentment at the atparent evasiveness towards the functioning of the Court of Mines…

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250,000 Out Great U S. Coal Strike Capitalists' Attitude Washington

The Sun · Monday 26 March 1928 · page 1

Mr. J. D. Rockefeller, jun., who described himself as "a layman in the industry and merely an…

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