State Cabinet Vacancy Unfilled Coal Problem Endowment Overdraft
"NOTHING DONE." was the verdict of the Premier yesterday when asked what steps Cabinet had taken toward filling the vacant…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining & the mines, 1929
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Coal Crisis. Premier's Efforts for Peace. Negotiations Continued
Negotiations are being continued by the Premier (Mr. Gavin) in an effort to settle the coal dispute. The Premier met representatives of the…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Peace Move Mine Crisis Big Conference to Meet To-day
A MOVE has been made to secure the re-opening of the coal mines. The owners and men are to be asked to…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Radium Find. At Golconda Mine. Better Quality Reported. London, April 2
A valuable find of radium is officially announced at the Golconda lead mine. The discovery is said to be due to the candles of the explorers being extinguished by chance…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →New Guinea Gold Merger Mooted Development Scheme Melbourne
Developments involving an expenditure of hundreds of thousands of pounds on construction, of a railway and the establishment of an aeroplane…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Money, Mines, Markets City Gossip Loan Lists Freehold Assets Loan Subscriptions
Towards the £7,000,000 loan which is being raised in Australia by the Commonwealth Loan Council, acting on behalf of the States, subscriptions…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Stars of Gold Candle Fire in Gloom Requiem for Foch
Stars of gold floating in a shadowy chasm of stone, stars of gold winking against black velvet, stars of gold moving and waxing and waning amid a surge of white surplices, the purple of bishops, and the tricolor of France, stars of gold blazing out of the shadow…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Miners' Big Risks for Little Pay Which Owners Would Make Less (To the Editor.)
Sir.--There is no body of men who run mure risks than the miner. No matter how skilful and careful a miner may be, his life is always in Leopardy…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Poverty, Sickness and Despair. Awful Conditions in British Mining Districts
The Quakers' Society has issued an urgent appeal for clothing arid money for the starving homes in the coal-mining districts in Britain. The appeal states…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →If Coal, Why Not Land? Sir Thomas Henley on Common Right (To the Editor.)
Sir.--It is Somewhat amusing to see that Sir Thos. Henley has presumed to take up take up the case for the public in connection with the Industrial disturbance on…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →New Guinea To-day. Grievances and Gold. Planters' Problems. Financial Difficulties. (From Our Special Representative.) No. IV
Before the visitor has spent many hours in Rabaul the capital of the Mandated Territory of New Guinea he has met 183 original discoverers of the lode of the Edie Creek…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The Case for the Public Pointing a Remedy But It Is Not Nationalisation Coal As Necessary Commodity and Controlled Like Gas Vj
JUST before the closing of the last Parliamentary session, when feeling on the coal impasse was supposed to be running high, I applied the acid test to a member who is an ex-Minister, and asked: "Have you a…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Coal Lockout. One Month of Agony! Public Will Stand No More Bavin's Herculean Task Deserted on All Sides, He Shoulders the Burden Robber Barons Condemned by Their Own Silence
FOR one long month, fraught with misery and anxiety, 12,000 miners and their 30,000 or more dependents, have been plunged into tho industrial morass by the ambitious, callous greed of a small but powerful section of the community…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Shipments
The amount of coal (including bunkers) shipped at Newcastle during the week ended March 22, for places beyond the State was, 5930 tons, this…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Broken Hill Miners
Sir,--I do not think it is possible to exaggerate the terrible effects of lead-poisoning upon those contracting the disease. Only those who have…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Coal Problem
With the view of getting all the facts involved in the coal problem before the public, we have published the case of the Miners' Federation,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Ending the Coal Trouble
THE amount of time consumed by the State Premier, Mr. Bavin, in conferring with miners and mine owners, all of which conferences have so far been barren of results, is due to the fact that Mr. Bavin's desires and his duty lie in opposite directions…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Control of Mines State Responsibility
"When workers have been compelled to take action to maintain wage rates or existing conditions in any public utility, the Government of the day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Oil From Coal. Scottish Experiments
Very interesting are the experiments being carried on in the mining district of Coalburn, in lowland Scotland, for the extraction of oil from bituminous coal, more…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mining. New Guinea Developments
Reporting progress on the Held to shareholders at the statutory meeting of New Guinea Developments, N.L., yesterday, Mr. H. W. Clark, consulting engineer, mentioned…
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