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Mining & the mines, 1930

6,554 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 250

Rushed Out for Gun Dispute in Hotel Rabbit Trappers, Not Miners Branxton

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 1 January 1930 · page 6

AN ugly incident occurred at the local hotel this afternoon when three Rabbit-trappers, travelling with a horse attached to a…

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Fifty More Kiddies on Saturday Rallying to Miners Aid Mrs. Munday Perfects Arrangements

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 1 January 1930 · page 6

Many additional, offers to provide holiday accomodation for the children of the locked-out northern miners have been…

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Mining Outlook in Britain. Dangerous and Difficult Period Ahead

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 1 January 1930 · page 13

In an address to a gathering of miners at Chesterton (England) on October 13 last, Mr. A. J. Cook, Secretary of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain, said…

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Engine Derailed. Driver and Fireman Injured. Sudden Shower of Coal. Lithgow

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 January 1930 · page 7

A locomotive was derailed at Mount Victoria this morning, and the driver and fireman were injured. They were treated by the Lithgow Ambulance, and later left for their homes at…

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Man with Shotgun. Miners Menaced. Excitement at Branxton. (From Our Special Reporter.) Branxton

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 January 1930 · page 8

Intense excitement was caused in Branxton this afternoon when a stranger produced a shotgun and threatened to shoot local miners with whom he had had an argument…

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Coal Lockout High Court Proceedings Mineowners Seek to Have Beeby Award Declared Invalid

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 1 January 1930 · page 18

SITTING at Darlingnurst last Friday the Chief Justice of the High Court (Sir Adrian Knox) heard preliminary evidence in the applications to challenge the…

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All Eyes Are on Them Unions Promise Aid for Miners of the North Wollongong

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 1 January 1930 · page 6

Speaking yesterday at the Southern District Miners Delegate Board Mr. T. White stated that the Miners Central had decided that from…

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Coal Scheme Proposed Excise and Bounty Half Million Tons at Once (To the Editor.)

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 1 January 1930 · page 8

Sir,--I am afraid I was not sufficiently [?] last entilted Coal Owaers Taeties. The principal point I wish to raise and the solution of the present…

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"Shooting" Brown Would Not Re-open the Mines Davies Tells of Bruce's Dilemma Court's Day Off

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 1 January 1930 · page 5

Hostile glances gave place to more happy and hopeful faces at the High Court yesterday, and the hew year spirit appeared to…

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More Men Leave Rothbury No Coal Moved All Is Now Quiet New Year Jokes Branxton

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 1 January 1930 · page 5

ALL rumors of a recrudescence of strife in the blackleg area have happily proved unfounded, and the majority of people in these…

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New Goldfield in the Solomons Arrivals by Marsina Yesterday

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 1 January 1930 · page 9

Mr. G. R. Palmer, of Melbourne, who has been visiting a new goldfield in Bougainville, Solomon Islands. Mr. Palmer had some samples of…

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Price of Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 January 1930 · page 11

Gold was quoted in London on Tuesday, cables our London correspondent, at 84/10 per oz fine, a decrease of /1½ on the day…

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Collieries and Shipping Companies. Operating at Newcastle and District

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 2 January 1930 · page 1

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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Miners' Claim Expires To-day

Evening News · Thursday 2 January 1930 · page 10

THE claim for higher wages served on the coal owners by the Miners' Federation expires to-day…

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The Coal Trouble. Contusing Factors

The Catholic Press · Thursday 2 January 1930 · page 26

The narrowing of the coal mining dispute to the proposed reduction of one shilling per ton for hewing wages hits created a false issue, which is unfair to the miners…

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Price of Gold London

Evening News · Thursday 2 January 1930 · page 6

Gold is quoted at [?] per [?] fine, a rise of [?] on the day…

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Coal Dispute. Extension Threatened. Demand for Higher Wages

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 January 1930 · page 9

If effect is given to the threat of the Miners' Federation, coal-miners in the western and southern districts of New South Wales and the other States of the Commonwealth will…

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Money, Mines, Markets City Gossip Murrumbidgee Mill Rubber Outlook

The Sun · Thursday 2 January 1930 · page 4

Milling Co.'s Profits In its accounts for the year ended November 30 last the Murrumbidgee Milling Co., Ltd., which operates from…

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Lure of Gold Ovens Rush the Drinking Dens

Evening News · Thursday 2 January 1930 · page 15

EXCITING and picturesque as were the old digging days of the Turon River fields, life there was not as fast and furious as it was on parts…

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Free Gold Market Japan's Move to Stabilise Currency

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 2 January 1930 · page 15

While conditions in Australia are considered to warrant control over export of gold the Japanese Minister of Finance has announced that the…

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