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Mining & the mines, 1929

7,217 stories in Sydney's papers · page 53 of 250

Guinea Gold Production

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 25 February 1929 · page 16
Also in The Sun

GUINEA GOLD, N.L., reports that production for January was 139oz. 15dwt. The reduced production was due to a transfer of labor for cleaning and widening water races…

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Collieries and Shipping Companies. Operating at Newcastle and District

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 25 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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Northern Miners Pleased. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 February 1929 · page 11

The northern miners are well satisfied at the announcement that a Commonwealth Royal Commission will be appointed to inquire into the coal industry…

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Mt. Kembla Miners Wollongong

The Labor Daily · Monday 25 February 1929 · page 8

South Kembla have decided to cease working under the collective contruct systems. There are will about four weeks' wages…

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Sardine Tin Mines Earns £413

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 25 February 1929 · page 16

Sardine Tin Mines, N.L., shows a profit of £413 for the half-year ended December 21, which compares with a loss of £1834 for the preceding term…

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How Coal Industry Has Been Blighted to Expose Trickery of the Coal Owners "Labor Daily's" Stern Fight But Mine Workers Must Co-operate Cautioned to Remain Solid Loyalty Demanded

The Labor Daily · Monday 25 February 1929 · page 1

MINE workers must yet [?] a victory. The fight has only now begun. The coal owners may be prepared to carry their monstrous bluff into execution, not so much to afflict their employees (though…

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Mining. the Share Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 February 1929 · page 13

Light though representative business was transacted in the mining share market on Saturday. Prices for the most part were firm. Harriers advanced strongly, Souths, of…

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British Mines Improving Much Brighter Outlook LONDON

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 25 February 1929 · page 4

"British coal will soon be able to compete successfully with any European coal fields" Sir David Llewellyn, a leading coalowner told a…

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Marts-money-mines and Maritime Movements of Shipping

Evening News · Monday 25 February 1929 · page 3

State of seas on N.S. Wales coast: Smooth to moderate. Berometer: 30.00, Steady. COASTWISE & OVERSEAS…

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Our Lost Trade Why It Went Colliery Owner's Grave Neglect Foreign Markets

The Labor Daily · Monday 25 February 1929 · page 1

WITH all the wailing and gnashing of teeth that has been indulged in over the loss of our foreign cool markets, not one word has ever been…

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Hunger March 800 Welsh Miners London Meeting London

Evening News · Monday 25 February 1929 · page 1

THE 800 unemployed miners from Wales, the North ol England, and Scotland, whose march to London bas been deprecated by their union…

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Petrol From Coal. Remarkable Experiment. London, Feb. 22

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 February 1929 · page 12

Two aeroplane engines—a Cirrus and a Jaguar—were started up from a cold state and ran their full revolutions at Stag-lane Acrodrome on petrol extracted from coal. Experts…

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Migration. Miners for Canada. Huge Development Scheme VANCOUVER, Feb. 22

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 February 1929 · page 11

A report from Ottawa says; A statement published in London that the British Government is training Welsh miners to cultivato 70,000,000 acres in the Peaco River country [?]…

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Welcome the Inquiry South Coast Miners Solidarity Triumph Wollongong

The Labor Daily · Monday 25 February 1929 · page 1

The southern district executive of the Miners 'Federation expressed itself as pleased that the Prime Minister has decided to appoint a…

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Looking Up Britain's Coal Trade Boom Coming ? LONDON

The Sun · Monday 25 February 1929 · page 1

"British coal at present is able to compete successfully with that from any European coalfield," Sir David Llewellyn, a leading coal-owner, told…

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Wild Talk Miners' 'Hunger March' Labor Leaders Frown Trafalgar Square Scenes London

The Sun · Monday 25 February 1929 · page 1

Eight, hundred "hunger-marchers," from Wales, the north of England, and from Scotland, whose pilgrimage…

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Coal Industry. Momentous Conference at Canberra To-day Unions Ban Strike Plans

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 February 1929 · page 11

There were no week-end developments to clarify the confusing position existing in relation to the coal industry. Both coalowners and mineworkers are…

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McDONALD'S Sympathy with the Miners Needs It Himself Subs. to the N.C.A.

The Labor Daily · Monday 25 February 1929 · page 1

IN a statement to the Press a day or so ago, Mr. C. McDonnald chairman of the Northern Collieries' Association, drew attention to the…

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Coal Crisis. Ominous Warning No Hanky Panky Stuff at This Stage Councils of "Action"

The Labor Daily · Monday 25 February 1929 · page 5

THAT interests so deeply sympathetic with the welfare of the workers, especially the miners, as the "Sydney Morning Herald,"…

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