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Mining & the mines, 1929

7,217 stories in Sydney's papers · page 16 of 250

Gold-Mining in New Guinea

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 23 January 1929 · page 13

These photographs, taken quite recently, illustrate the settlement at Edie Creek. It is generally admitted that there is a great deal of gold yet to be extracted from this field, but profitable working can best be done in a large way, and negotiations are still going on for the amalgamation of various leases…

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Coal Crisis. Miners, and Premier Bavin's Proposals

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 23 January 1929 · page 5

Mining officials in the Newcastle district are at a loss to understand repeated statements that the N.S.W. Premier (Mr. Bavin) was waiting for the election of the…

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Mining

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 23 January 1929 · page 5

B.H. South: 1/, payable February 22…

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Gold Medallist

Evening News · Wednesday 23 January 1929 · page 14

Miss Hilda Grace, well known pianiste, and winner of the Gold Medal at a recent Eisteddfod…

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The Coal Trouble

Evening News · Wednesday 23 January 1929 · page 8

The coal mining unions which have rejected the Premier's proposals for the improvement of the coal trade may presently regret their decisions. The…

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King Coal's Shaky Throne

The Sun · Wednesday 23 January 1929 · page 10

ALL along the line of Australia's trade and industry goes up the insistent, imperative call for lower prices. That can only come about by lower costs of production, and that, in turn, mainly by a reduction in the price of coal…

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New Guinea Gold Developments

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 23 January 1929 · page 18

New Guinea Gold Fields Exploration, Ltd., advises:--"Progress report from mine manager, present, depth of shaft 31 feet, panning near the bottom 7 pennyweights, no water in…

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"Conditions Just Vile!" Angry Deputation Balmain Colliery's Dust

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 23 January 1929 · page 6

"WE do not ask favors, wo only want Justice. If the truth hurt. cannot help it. only want to put before you tho feeling of the…

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Miners Reject Plan to Stabilise Coal Industry Demand Public Inquiry Three-hours' Conference Reaches Deadlock Against Wage Cut

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 23 January 1929 · page 5

Coal miners and the Government reached a deadlock yesterday when, after a three-hours' conference with the Premier, his…

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Maitland Coalfields. Present Condition of Mines

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 23 January 1929 · page 15

The position on the Maitland coalfields has been far from satisfactory during the past few months. Most of the mines have been working, but only intermittently. There is…

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The Gold Fish Are Lucky

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 23 January 1929 · page 5

It is the fish the children ere watching-- not their reflection,. The lakes in the Botanic Garden, are better off for water than the of Centennial Park…

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The Singing Gold Chapter XXVI

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 23 January 1929 · page 18

IT seemed a long while although it was not really very long afterwards that I climbed over the old fence round the pink almond tree and sat down in the fall, sofi-bleached grass beside the trunk. The…

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Mine Workers Turn Down Premier's Proposals No Reduction in Wages Men's Delegates Urge Inquiry First Into Coal Industry Negotiations Off

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 23 January 1929 · page 1

COALFIELDS employees have declined in fall in with Mr. Bavin's plan for the rehabilitation of the coal-mining industry at a sacrifice to them selves of a shipping a ton on coal produced the Premier announced…

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Mining. the Share Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 23 January 1929 · page 17

Well-distributed trading was done in the mining share market yesterday. A feature was provided by a solid alliance by sliverlead interests, in the face of a…

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Twenty Days' Supply Coal for Railways

The Sun · Wednesday 23 January 1929 · page 11

The Railway Department has not increased its reserve supplies of coal for some time, and at the moment no effort is being made to do so…

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School Peril Balmain Problem Local Mine Blamed

Evening News · Wednesday 23 January 1929 · page 7

THAT deadly carbon [?] and sulphurated hydrogen [?] omitted from the coal [?] Balmain, were an extreme [?]…

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Poison Gases "Menace to Children" Angry Citizens Balmain Colliery Attacked

The Sun · Wednesday 23 January 1929 · page 14

Is the health of oyer 1000 children attending the public school adjacent to the Balmain Colliery seriously menaced by deadly fumes and gases? According to a deputation of angry citizens to the Balmain Council last…

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Imported Coal. For Protected Industry. a Protest

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 23 January 1929 · page 17

The Australian Commonwealth Carbide Company, which operates in Tasmania,recently imparted 2500 tons of the best Wel[?] anthracite coal…

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Reserves of Coal. Victorian Precautions. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 23 January 1929 · page 15

In the last few years every opportunity has been taken by all large users in Victoria of New South Wales coal to build up reserve stocks as a safeguard for the continuity of…

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Newcastle Opinion. Some Mines May Close. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 23 January 1929 · page 15

The suggestion bas been canvassed in some quarters that the mine owners, now that Mr, Bavin's proposals have been rejected, will take the matter into their own hands and refuse…

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