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Mining & the mines, 1931

4,249 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 213

Mine to Resume After Seven Months Wollongong

The Labor Daily · Saturday 3 January 1931 · page 6

After seven months of hunger and hardship since the close down of the colliery Wongawill miners are trekking from various parts to the Wollongong center…

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London Mining Prices London

Evening News · Saturday 3 January 1931 · page 7

SALES OF [?] on the Stock Exchange [?] were North B. HALL [?]…

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140,000 Miners Stop Work London, Friday. (British Official Wireless.)

The Labor Daily · Saturday 3 January 1931 · page 1

IN the South Wales coalfield following failure on Wednesday to get the owners and the men to renew discussion, the…

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Coal Industry. Stoppage in South Wales. LONDON, Jan. 1

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 January 1931 · page 11

The instruction of the Miners' Federation to coalminers in South Wales to cease work was acted upon to-day. Four hundred and twenty pits are idle, 140,000 miners being…

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Money, Mines, and Markets City Gossip P.d.s. Profits Fall

The Sun · Saturday 3 January 1931 · page 2

The decline in prices for dairy produce foodstuffs is reflected in the accounts of the Producers' Co-operative Distributing Society, Ltd., for the…

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Coal Industry. Proposed Control Board. Misgivings in Newcastle. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 January 1931 · page 10

Increasing anxiety is evident in the north as to whether the State Government, under pressure from the Miners' Federation, intends to set up a board to control the New South…

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The Man in the Street. (To the Editor) Gold Standard

The Labor Daily · Saturday 3 January 1931 · page 4

Sir,-- Professor J. R. Bellerby recently discussed the gold standard at the Liverpool (England) cotton Institute…

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Terror Policy in Ruhr Reds Blamed For Coal Strike BERLIN

Evening News · Saturday 3 January 1931 · page 3

WHILE 140,000 coal miners are idle in Wales as the result of a strike. Germany has its coal troubles too. The strike in the Ruhr area is ostensibly…

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How to Get Gold Bounty Regulations to Be Issued Canberra

The Labor Daily · Saturday 3 January 1931 · page 1

THE Gold Bounty Act has come into operation as from January 1. Gold producers are Warned that…

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New A.l.p. Executive Fresh Faces Analysis of Group Voting A.w.u. and Miners

The Labor Daily · Saturday 3 January 1931 · page 6

MANY fresh face will be at the A.L.P. Central Executive at its next meeting. Mr. H. O 'Regan, A.L.P. general…

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Shipping INTELLIGENCE [?] WEATHER Looking Back Last Days of Muscoota Proud Sailer a Sydney Coal Hulk

Daily Pictorial · Saturday 3 January 1931 · page 9

Still afloat, but now on the quiet waters of Sydney Harbor instead, of the open sea, the four-masted ship Muscoota spends her declining days…

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Vengeance Is Mine

The Sun · Sunday 4 January 1931 · page 3

PERSONAL revenge was what a witness in a criminal case demanded, and none who read her plea could fail to sympathise with…

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New Coal Hope Cessnock

The Sun · Sunday 4 January 1931 · page 2

The Minister for Mines and Labor (Mr. Baddeley) at a representative congratulatory function at Cessnock to-night, held out hones of…

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B. Hill Miners New Offer by Coys. Broken Hill

The Sun · Sunday 4 January 1931 · page 6

If the unions agree to the new offer of the mining companies them will be a resumption of work at the South, North and Zinc Corporation…

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Rich Gold Splitters' Creek Find Rush to Field Tumut Excitement Tumut

The Sun · Sunday 4 January 1931 · page 5

The rich gold find at Splitters Creek, 22 miles from here, is progressing favorably. The Putland Bros., who brought £100 worth…

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Let Us All Go To Tumut Gold Haul Worth £300 Has Been Found

Daily Pictorial · Sunday 4 January 1931 · page 2

TUMUT. Saturday. -- Putland Bros., who brought in a specimen of gold worth £100 a few days ago from Splitters' Creek, to-day…

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Wage Cut Refused Welsh Coal Mine Conference Breaks Down LONDON

Daily Pictorial · Monday 5 January 1931 · page 4

THE conference between the owners and the and coal miners…

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Collieries and Shipping Companies. Operating at Newcastle and District

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 5 January 1931 · page 6

The following are the names of the collieries and shipping companies, with their addresses and telephone numbers, which are at present…

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Gold Find at Wedderburn

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 January 1931 · page 11

At Wedderburn on Saturday Messrs. Robert Crisp and Isaac Oliver, local residents, who for the last six weeks have been mining close to Ridge-street, half a mile from the town,…

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Gold Development at Bathurst

Daily Pictorial · Monday 5 January 1931 · page 12

The secretary of The Western Goldmining Development Syndicate reports that, after six months' development on 25 acres at Euchre Hill, 16 miles from Bathurst, samples…

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