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Mining & the mines, 1928

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Gold Thread Comes to Grief

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Friday 13 April 1928 · page 9

Few Rosehill horses have competed at the Randwick carnival, and the best performance so far as placings go is that of Gold Thread, who was second in the…

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Mining. the Share Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 April 1928 · page 13

Owing to metal quotations having lost ground during tho Easter recess, the mining share market reopened In a listless condition yesterday. Few of the leading base-metal…

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World Coal Crisis Meet It With International Solidarity

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 13 April 1928 · page 3

Throughout the capitalist world, the coal miners are at present among the most oppressed workers. Every where, as the following notes show,…

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Money, Mines & Markets City Gossip Wunderlich's Finances Staff-partnership

The Sun · Friday 13 April 1928 · page 8

Speaking from the chair at the annual meeting of shareholders Wunderlich, Ltd., the managing director, Mr. O. Wunderlich said that at…

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Coal Leases. Minister's Charge. Against Mr. Baddeley. State Jlosses

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 April 1928 · page 11

The Minister for Mines (Mr. Chaffey) asserted yesterday that Mr. Daddeley, while he was Minister for Mines, did not give effect to the policy of granting no additional new…

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Discovery of Gold and Platinum Hopes of Oberon Pioneers

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 13 April 1928 · page 2

LITHGOW, Thursday.--Old pioneers, who for 40 qears have pinned their faith to Mt. Werong, in the Oberon district, hope that it will be now…

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Gold on the Tops a Pioneer Seeker Successful Career

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 13 April 1928 · page 15

Who, in the year 1876. found gold on the [?] Tops [?] Mr. Tewns calms second place to "Thunderbolt" in esploring the plstrau. Together with…

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Below Coolie Level a British Miner’s Pay From Our Correspondent GLASGOW

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 13 April 1928 · page 3

The Rev. David McQueen, writing to the Glasgow “Evening News,” supplied some striking figures on the wages of miners in Scotland…

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Levy on Coal Mr. Willis' Suggestions at A.L.P. Conference

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 13 April 1928 · page 5

Mr. A. C. Willis last night succeeded in having passed unanimously his motions (which were not heard on Wednesday) bearing on the coal…

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Gold Thread Breaks His Back Mr. L. A. Simpson's Loss

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Friday 13 April 1928 · page 4

The well-known racehorse, Gold Thread, while competing in the second Hurdle Race at Randwic[?] on Wednesday, sustained such serious injuries…

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Marts—money—mines and Maritime Big Finance International Co. Britain and U.s.a

Evening News · Friday 13 April 1928 · page 7

In another part of this issue appears the announcement of the establishment of the Finance Co. of Great Britain and America, one of the most…

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Yearling Worth Weight in Gold Record Price of 6750 Guineas Syndicate's Bid

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 13 April 1928 · page 2

Meet the most precious little horse in Australasian annals. He sold yesterday for 6750 guineas at the sale of yearlings…

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Gas in Corrimal Mine

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 14 April 1928 · page 11

WOLLONGONG, Friday.--The presence of .gas in the Corrimal mine was responsible for the management withdrawing the workmen from the two…

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Winning and Working the World's Coal the Cost of Hydraulic Stowage Colliery X. the Baddeley Report No. 20

The Labor Daily · Saturday 14 April 1928 · page 10

Three seams of coal are being worked at this colliery. The "top" one varies in thickness from 2ft to 40ft, and lies at a depth of 620ft from the surface…

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Killing the Coal Industry

The Labor Daily · Saturday 14 April 1928 · page 11

Sir,--Mr. C. M. McDonald has been getting a blister off his chest, that has been irritating him for some considerable time. Incidentally he has…

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Coal Tribunal to Visit Tasmania

The Labor Daily · Saturday 14 April 1928 · page 4

Mount Nicholas mine, Tasmania, re[?] operations yesterday after two or three weeks Idleness over a dispute regarding the number of special place…

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Coal Leases. Mr. Baddeley's Reply

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 14 April 1928 · page 21

"Mr. Chaffey's reply does not answer the charges which I made against him and the Government of disposing of valuable Crown coal leases to private speculators," said Mr…

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Mining. the Share Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 14 April 1928 · page 19

More favourable variations in metal prices had a steadying effect on the share market yesterday, but business in most of the leading stocks was restricted. Barrier…

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Country News. Work for Miners. Wollongong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 14 April 1928 · page 18

Mr. Donaldson, of the Department of [?] bour and Industry, visited the local Labo[?] Bureau yesterday with a view to arranging [?] a number of miners to proceed to road wor[?]…

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The Cream in Coal. Skimmed by Private Enterprise Waste of National Wealth Abandonment of Workers

The Labor Daily · Saturday 14 April 1928 · page 8

NEARLY one column of supposition and presumption was employed by the "Sydney Morning Herald" yesterday to take Mr. Willis to task for endeavoring to solve the desperate position in the coal industry, which has been brought about by the rapacity employed consequent upon the private…

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