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Mining & the mines, 1930

6,554 stories in Sydney's papers · page 80 of 250

Figures Tell the Tale the Coal Trade Effects of Lock-out

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 25 February 1930 · page 5

The N.S.W. Mines Department's annual report for 1928, shows that the total production or coal in New South Wales was 7,617,763 tons, a decrease…

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Gold and a Bullet! Did Dead Man Jump a Claim?

Daily Pictorial · Tuesday 25 February 1930 · page 3

BRISBANE, Monday.--Claim-jumping is believed to have been the reason for the…

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At Once New Coal Conference Bavin Determined Moderates Would Welcome Another Peace Move

The Sun · Tuesday 25 February 1930 · page 11

The Premier (Mr. Bavin) said to -day that the conference he had proposed between the owners and the miners would be called immediately. If no agreement was reached the Government's decision to stop the dole…

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Bavin Withdraws His 2- Coal Offer Unemployed Relief Menaced "Serious Financial Position" "Both Must Sacrifice"

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 25 February 1930 · page 5

THE State Cabinet last night appeared to have been thoroughly alarmed about its financial position, and so pulled the string on its 2 concession in coal freights, while threatening at any moment to cut out all unemployment relief for the Northern coalfields…

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Money, Mines and Markets City Gossip Foster Brewing Co. Dividend, 24½ P.C. Big Dividend from Beer

The Sun · Tuesday 25 February 1930 · page 8

Foster Brewing Company, Ltd., the assets of which comprise 72,500 ordinary and 10,549 pref. shares in Carlton and United Breweries, Ltd., and…

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Premier Gives Miners Last Opportunity to Avoid Loss of Dole Obsolete Maps of Sydney Air Photography 600 Sq. Miles to Cover

The Sun · Tuesday 25 February 1930 · page 11

Because the old maps of Sydney now in use by the Water Board are getting obsolete, new ones are to be made from aerial…

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Ministry's Coal Offer Withdrawn. Dole Payments to Cease. Conference to be Convened. Appeal for Industrial Peace. State Will Help if Settlement is Reached

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 February 1930 · page 11

The State Government has decided that it cannot continue indefinitely to hand out dole for the relief of the unemployed in the Northern coalfield. It is probable that the payments will be withdrawn. The State Government's offer of a remission of 2/ per ton of…

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The Tanami Goldfield

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 February 1930 · page 13

Mr. J. T. Beckett, chairman of directors of the Tanami Gold Mining Company, reports:— Owing to London interest and recent reports a stimulated interest has been…

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To See Body ? NEED 13 Days' Trip Goldfields Tragedy Cairns

The Sun · Tuesday 25 February 1930 · page 15

The lack of news concerning the Batavia goldfields tragedy, which is said to have arisen out of alleged claim- jumping, brings into…

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New Guinea Goldfields

The Sun · Tuesday 25 February 1930 · page 8

A progress report for the week ended February 8, issued by the Mining Trust, Ltd. consulting engineers for New Guinea Goldfields, Ltd., states that at…

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Cessnock Collieries Loss Due to Coal Dispute

Daily Pictorial · Wednesday 26 February 1930 · page 14

Cessnock Collieries. Ltd., has suffered through the prolonged stoppage in the northern coal district. Accounts for 1929 show a loss, after…

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Cessnock Collieries, Ltd

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 26 February 1930 · page 17

Cessnock Collieries, Ltd, which acquired Wickham and Bullock Island Coal Company Ltd. in 1927, discloses a loss of £2892 for the year ended December 31, against a net…

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Rothbury Mine

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 26 February 1930 · page 16

In the Legislative Assembly yesterday, Mr. Baddeley asked the Premier: "In view of the fact that coal can be purchased in the Newcastle district for less than 25/ a ton, will…

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Mine Reports

Daily Pictorial · Wednesday 26 February 1930 · page 14

LUCKNOW PUPS:--Calcite vein development is considered satisfactory. In addition to the visible gold, stone in which gold is not apparent to the eve. when…

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Coal Baroness

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 26 February 1930 · page 6

Arrived by the Demosthenes yesterday, Dowager Viscountess Rhondda, look over Australia. "Who's Who" says that the lady…

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Miners' Jazz Band

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 26 February 1930 · page 5

A Jazz band consisting of miners, is available for any function organised by A.L.P. branches or relief depots. Homes are required for the five…

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Price of Gold

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 26 February 1930 · page 17

Gold was quoted in London on Monday at 84/11½ per oz fine, our correspondent cables, an increase of one-eighth of a penny over the week-end,…

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Weaver's Mythical 13-Per-day Miners. Figures Quoted by N.S.W. Nationalist Minister for Mines, Alleged to Have Been Earned by Non-Unionists at Rothbury Colliery, Won't Stand Analysis

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 26 February 1930 · page 13

LAST week the N.S.W. Minister for Mines (Mr. Weaver) resorted to a grossly contemptible and cowardly form of political misrepresentation in an effort…

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Miners' Relief Meeting To-night

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 26 February 1930 · page 1

The weekly meeting of the Central A.L.P. Miners Relief Depot will be held in the Trades Hall to-night (Wednesday). All delegates are requested…

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Bavin's Letters to Coal Miners and Owners "All Must Help" Restoring Trade Prosperity Government Ready Friday Conference Suggested

Evening News · Wednesday 26 February 1930 · page 8

STRESSING the importance of the early re-opening of the northern mines, the Premier, Mr. Bavin, hat appealed both to the owners and the miners to meet in an endeavor to solve the problems with which the…

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