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Sydney · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1929

7,217 stories in Sydney's papers · page 45 of 250

Tin Mining. Queensland Properties. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 16 February 1929 · page 18

An attempt to revive the tin mining industry in North Queensland is about to be made by the Whitworth Finante and Mining Corporation of England. This company [?]…

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Airing It in Federal House Coal Question Canberra

The Sun · Saturday 16 February 1929 · page 7

The Prime Minister (Mr. Bruce) announced to-day that it had been decided to set aside the whole of next Thursday to allow a full discussion by…

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New Fuel. Pulverised Coal. Hororata's Performance. Wellington (N.z.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 16 February 1929 · page 16

Although the Use of pulverised coal in enu steamer Hororata, which arrived at Wellington from London last week, can only be considered as an experiment, tho experience…

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Parramatta Election Mr. Bowles' Policy Problems of Coal Oil and Fruit

The Labor Daily · Saturday 16 February 1929 · page 5

MR. H. R. BOWLES, Independent Nationalist, who is contesting Parramatta, in opening his campaign last night, said that the price of petrol at…

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Coal Industry Debacle. Thousands of Miners Dismissed McDONALD SAYS 12,000 to Go "To Starve to Death" Owners Apply Drastic Remedy to Assist "Process of Attrition" Men Cautioned to Stand Firm

The Labor Daily · Saturday 16 February 1929 · page 1

COUNTLESS years ago Alexander the Great was faced with the problem of untying the Gordian knot. Hundreds had failed before him, but Alexander was a great general, a conqueror of the then known world. He untied the knot--by a stroke of his sword…

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Earthquakes and Eruptions May Follow Arctic Spell Gloomy Prophecy Man Who Foretold Icy Wave Riots Follow Coal Shortage London

Evening News · Saturday 16 February 1929 · page 1

ABBE MOREAUX, the famous director of the Bourges Observatory, whose predictions made more than a year ago have already been amply fulfilled this winter, says that the icy spell will continue until the end of February…

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DISMISSED! Owners' Notice to Coal Miners Climax Reached

Truth · Sunday 17 February 1929 · page 1

HAVING thrown down the gauntlet to the coal miners by serving 12,000 of them with two weeks notice as from last Friday…

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Submarine Mining

The Sun · Sunday 17 February 1929 · page 2

GREAT ships going to Cockatoo Island and other places in the upper part of Sydney Harbor sail over a coal mine. However it does…

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In Gold Something New in Coachwork

Truth · Sunday 17 February 1929 · page 23

GOLD! At last motorcar manufacture have added it to the make up of their products, in that gold is now definitely the most…

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Coal Crisis Federal Parliament to Discuss CANBERRA

Sunday Times · Sunday 17 February 1929 · page 1

The coal situation will be discussed be Federal Parliament next week, the Government having decided to set aside the whole of Thursday for debate. The…

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Idle Mines Will Govt. Intervene? Tuesday's Meeting Rift in the Lute Reported Among the Unions Newcastle

The Sun · Sunday 17 February 1929 · page 2

Failing intervention by the State Government or by the Federally-constituted Coal Tribunal, the mines at which notices of dismissal have been handed to the men will close down on March 2…

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Both Sides Fear Worst in Coal Crisis--Hope for Help £1000 Prizes for Australian Artists "State" Quest Union Theatres Fine Offer

The Sun · Sunday 17 February 1929 · page 2

£1000 for Australian art--this is the handsome offer which the State Theatre, Market-street, makes to…

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"Aussie-Made" Goods Mean Bigger Wages—Buy Them Let the Government Run the Mines Owners Who Are Losing Money Should Step Aside Bruce Missed Big Chance to Prime Minister Bruce

Sunday Times · Sunday 17 February 1929 · page 22

Dear Mr. Bruce: We agree with you, my dear Stanley, in many things, but think that you have erred in your treatment of the coal-mining situation…

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Wollondilly Miners Pay

The Labor Daily · Monday 18 February 1929 · page 5

When Wollondilly silver mine, at Yerranderie, closed down at Christmas time, the seventeen members of the Miners' Federation, who had been…

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Mining

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 18 February 1929 · page 4

B.H. South: 1/, payable February 22…

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The Coal Lockout

The Labor Daily · Monday 18 February 1929 · page 4

IN 1910, the "S.M. Herald" [?]tigmatised Billy Hughes and Peter Bowling "anarchists," because they had, as the Hunter Street oracle expressed it, "strangled Sydney" by a seven-months' coal strike on the northern coal areas…

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New Colliery Near Wallerawang. Lithgow

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 February 1929 · page 12

An application by Messrs. Frank Row-sell, William R. Precce, and Thomas Shipley for a suspension of labour conditions in regard to their mining lease on property near…

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Guinea Gold Options

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 February 1929 · page 13

Guinea Gold (N.L.) advises that negotiations have been completed by which the consideration, payable to the company in fully-paid shares in the final company to be floated in…

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The Gold Fetish

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 February 1929 · page 13

Mr. H. C. Brierley writes, under date February 14:- Sir,—Perhaps the most remarkable, and certainly the most valuable, part of the…

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Collieries and Shipping Companies. Operating at Newcastle and District

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 18 February 1929 · page 5

The following are the names of the collieries and shipping companies, with their addresses and telephone numbers, which are at present operating at…

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