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Mining & the mines, 1929

7,217 stories in Sydney's papers · page 64 of 250

"Take Those Pennies Away" Timbermen's Fine Must Be Notes, Gold, or Cheque Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 6 March 1929 · page 5

IT has been suggested that the Timberworkers' Union should pay their £1000 fine in pennies, but it was pointed out to-day by the…

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King Coal Steadily 'Adds to Victims Compulsory Holiday for Railway Crane Men Loading Ceases at Newcastle

Evening News · Wednesday 6 March 1929 · page 10

MANY of the coal loading cranes at Newcastle ceased operations to-day, and 65 drivers and other employees have been thrown idle. These men are employed by the railway department, and will be sent on holidays…

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Mining Lockout. Will Not Prosecute Bavin's Scornful Refusal Baddeley's Motion in Assembly Is Rejected on Party Vote Owners Above Law

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 6 March 1929 · page 1

MR. BAVIN WILL NOT APPLY the State laws against the coalowners, who have locked out the deputies engaged under State awards, Not is there and danger that Stanley Melbourne Bruce, Prime Minister, Thomas Rain ford Bavin, Premier, and Charles M. McDonald,…

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Mine Reports

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 7 March 1929 · page 18

RETURN CREEK. -- Output for four weeks ended Marsh 4 was 14 tons of tin oxide from 49,000 cubic yards in 413 hours. Time was lost owing to heavy floods…

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Coal Industry. Railwaymen Affected. Steelworks Reduce Hands. Miners' Huge Earnings. NEWCASTLE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 7 March 1929 · page 11

More than 100 raliway employees engaged in handling coal have been instructed to begin annual holidays forthwith. If by the time the holidays finish, the trouble is not over…

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Coal Shipments

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 7 March 1929 · page 5

The quantity of coal including bunkers shipped at Newcastle during the week ended March 1, for places beyond the State was 68,065 tons, of…

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Qld. Colliery Owners' Hopes Brisbane

The Labor Daily · Thursday 7 March 1929 · page 1

Queensland colliery owners anticipate a prosperous rum of trade in the event of the lockout of miners of New South…

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Cornwall (Tas.) Miners' Dispute

The Labor Daily · Thursday 7 March 1929 · page 1

Cornwall (Tas.) mine officials have telegraphed to the miners' general secretary (Mr. D. J. Davies) the information that they had been unable to…

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Price of Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 7 March 1929 · page 13
Also in The Daily Telegraph

Gold was quoted in London on Tuesday, our correspondent cables, at 84/10[?] per oz. fine, a decrease of five-eighths of one penny on the price ruling since yesterday week…

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Injured Miners Compensation Claims Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Thursday 7 March 1929 · page 5

Several culms dealing with Injuries to colliery employees were dealt with at the Workers' Compensation Court to-day…

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Marts—money—mines and Maritime 60 P.c. Dividend Greyhoun: Coursing Eilyop Goldfields

Evening News · Thursday 7 March 1929 · page 6

A peculiarity of the report and balance sheet of the Greyhound Coursing Association, Ltd., for the year ended January 31 is that no profit and loss…

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Miners' Asthma Compensation Claim Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Thursday 7 March 1929 · page 5

That the dust, fumes and smale Muswellbrook Colliery caused him to contracts aslhman. was the statement of Henvy Fllock llurvey a [?] in the…

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Mining. the Share Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 7 March 1929 · page 13

Prices swung upward in the mining share market yesterday, on trading of moderate proportions. Barriers continued to strengthen, and several were well held. B.H. South…

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Search for Coal. Boring Stopped at Bunnerong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 7 March 1929 · page 12

The City Commissioners, at a meeting yesterday, directed that the boring test for coal on land adjoining the Bunnerong power station should cease…

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To Stay in Mines' Safety Men Militants Beaten

The Sun · Thursday 7 March 1929 · page 13

The safety men are to remain in the northern coal mines affected by the notices. Unofficially, but on good…

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Miners' Reply to P.M. Must Have Own Accountant

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 7 March 1929 · page 3

The Unity Council of Mining Unions in Sydney yesterday dealt with the Prime Minister's suggestion for a chartered…

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Gambler's Gold. Winnings in Death. London, March 5

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 7 March 1929 · page 11

An extraordinary tragedy of the gaining tables of the Riviera will shortly come up in the Paris law courts. An elegantly-dressed man entered the Casino…

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Labor Surplus Work in Other Fields Baldwin to Miners London

The Sun · Thursday 7 March 1929 · page 1

Even with an improvement in the coal trade, there would still be a big labor surplus in British mining areas, according to the Prime Minister (Mr…

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Steelworks Affected Four Weeks' Coal' 4000 Men's Jobs in Peril

Evening News · Thursday 7 March 1929 · page 14

WITH only four weeks' supply of coal on hand, the R.H.P. Steelworks at Newcastle will shortly have to restrict production, or close down some of the mills…

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