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Mining & the mines, 1928

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In Equity. (Before Mr. Justice Long Innes.) Papua Mining Leases. Yates and others v Alexander and others

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 May 1928 · page 8

This was an application on behalf of the plaintiffs in the suit of Robert Walter Yates, Walter Reginald Yates, Vincent Campbell Sharp, Alec Forbes Williams, James Thomas…

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Coal Shipments

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 9 May 1928 · page 4

The amount of coal (including burtkers) shipped at Newcastle during the week ended May 4, for places beyond the State was 49,362 tons, of…

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Price Df Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 May 1928 · page 19

Gold was quoted in London on Monday, our correspondent cables, at 84/11½ per oz fine, an increase of one farthing on the price ruling since April 24…

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Kaindi Gold Purchase Offer

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 May 1928 · page 19

Advices from the mining engineer of the Kaindi Gold, N.L., state that an offer has been received for the purchase of the leases on the basis of 100,000 fully paid shares in a company…

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Dividends Payable. Mining

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 9 May 1928 · page 8

B.H. South, Ltd.: 1/ a share; payable May 25. B. H. Pty.: 1/ a share; payable May 16…

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Mining. the Share Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 May 1928 · page 19

The mining share market enlivened somewhat yesterday to produce a turnover of fairly wide variety. Prices tended higher, despite minor slackening in metal quotations…

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Miners' Convention to Be Held on June 12

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 9 May 1928 · page 1

The Miners' Federation will call a convention on June 12, of delegates from all the districts in Australia, to consider the domestic reorganisation of…

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Coal Industry. Baron Brown Says Wages Must Come Down

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 9 May 1928 · page 8

Speaking at Richmond Main Colliery, on the South Maitland coalfield, last Wednesday, Mr. John Brown, a prominent coal-mine proprietor in the Newcastle and…

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Death After Smash Mr. Dodds, Mining Man

Evening News · Wednesday 9 May 1928 · page 15

MR. LEONARD DODDS, a well-known mining man, died in the Parramatta man, died in the Parramatta District Hospital yesterday, from the effects of a motor accident near his…

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Coal Industry. Reverting to 1914 Standards. "Not the Ministry's Wish."

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 May 1928 · page 17

The Acting Premier (Mr. Buttenshaw) said yesterday that statements alleged to have been made recently by Mr. John Brown, concerning the necessity for reducing wages and…

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The Price of Coal. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 May 1928 · page 14

Sir,—It is to the benefit of the community that Mr. John Brown has had the courage to "take the bull by the horns" and make public the fact which the miners' officials, as well as…

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N.S.W. Labor Executive. Miners' Lodges as A.L.P. Branches

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 9 May 1928 · page 15

At fast Friday night's meeting of the N.S.W. Labor Executive, a delegate asked whether the matter of miners' Lodges being regarded as A.L.P. Branches had…

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"No Wage Reductions," Say Miners Unions Will Fight as One Body Conference Decides

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 9 May 1928 · page 3

A meeting of representatives of the unions connected with the coalmining industry was held at the Coal Miners' Federation rooms…

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As One Body Mining Unions to Fight No Wage Reduction

The Sun · Wednesday 9 May 1928 · page 20

When it adjourned last evening until May 17, the conference of N.S.W. unions engaged in the mining industry had pledged itself to fight as one body…

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Money, Mines and Markets City Gossip New York Loan Hoskins' Finances Dollar Issue Over-Subscribed

The Sun · Wednesday 9 May 1928 · page 4

A loan of £10,000,000 offered in New York, yesterday, by the Australian Commonwealth Loan Council, through a Plerpont Morgan syndicate was over…

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Shoulder to Shoulder Men of Mining Industry Will Resist Attack on Conditions Big Conference Decides

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 9 May 1928 · page 1

IT WAS EARLY MADE APPARENT by proceedings at the collective conference of organisations in the mining industry of this State, held in Sydney yesterday, that the almost solidarity prevailed throughout the entire ranks of the workers in their attitude toward the impending…

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Coal Mining. Two Busy Collieries. Kurri Kurri

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 10 May 1928 · page 12

Although the Stanford Merthyr Colliery closed down last December, and No. 2 Hebburn and No. 3 Abermain collieries have been working intermittently for several months…

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Mine Reports

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 10 May 1928 · page 21

GUINEA GOLD. -- Mr. E. Broughton Jensen, field superintendent, has shipped 900 ounces of gold. Production of gold and cultivation of native food areas are being continued…

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The Coal Problem

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 10 May 1928 · page 4

There was a time when the Northern coalfields of New South Wales supplied fuel to all the States of Australia, the Philippines, Colombo, and all the West Coast of North and South America. In 1924-25 the coal exports from all Australia were valued at £l,079,584,…

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