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Mining & the mines, 1931

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£58 000.000 British Empire Gold Production Rises in 1930. So Did Unemploytd Figures— by 2,000,000

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 10 April 1931 · page 6

The gold production of the British Empire reached a total of £61.900 000 in 1930, the highest point for a [?] of years. The List occasion on…

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Stone in Coal Four Miners Sacked Dispute at Scarborough Scarborough

The Labor Daily · Saturday 11 April 1931 · page 5

A dispute exists at Scarborough mine,where four miners were dismissed for allegedly filling stone among their coal. The management refused…

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Western Australian Gold Yield

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 April 1931 · page 15

Our Perth correspondent telegraphs that the Western Australian gold yield for March was 34,947 ounces, compared with 27,946 ounces for the same month lost year. It was highest…

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School Sport. Gold Challenge Cup

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 April 1931 · page 18

South Australia has informed the P.S.A.A.A. that, after thorough investigation, they find it impossible to accept a soccer interstate carnival in Adelaide this year…

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Gold Leads Near Gulgong Geophysical Survey

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 11 April 1931 · page 9

The Minister for Mines (Mr. Baddeley) has received from the Government Geologist a report on the geophysical survey of the Gulgong…

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Miners' Leaders. Newcastle Meeting. Small Attendance. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 April 1931 · page 17

The northern miners' president (Mr. T. Hoare) and the organising vice-president (Mr. J, Kellock) addressed 150 people at the Newcastle Town Hall this evening. The meeting…

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Gulgong Gold Deep Leads Located Geophysical Survey

The Labor Daily · Saturday 11 April 1931 · page 6

"Geophysical survey methods, which have been tried with considerable success in other parts of the world, have been applied by the officers of…

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Shale Oil Industry Gets a Start Special Committee Jobs for Miners

The Labor Daily · Saturday 11 April 1931 · page 6

IT is hoped that a number of unemployed miners will be given work almost immediately in the development of oil shale deposits in…

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Oil From Coal. Process Developments. (British Official Wireless.) LONDON, April 9

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 April 1931 · page 14

The recent announcement of the formation of an international company holding the patents and interests of several leading companies in hydrogenation processes for…

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Money, Mines and Markets City Gossip Metrop. Life Co. Funds Increase New Business Less

The Sun · Saturday 11 April 1931 · page 2

New Business written by the Australian Metropolitan Life Assurance Co., Ltd., showed a falling off during 1930. This, states the report, was…

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Best Oil Made From Coal British Process International Company Is Formed London, Friday. (British Official Wireless.)

The Labor Daily · Saturday 11 April 1931 · page 7

THE recent announcement of the formation of an international company holding the patents and interests of several leading companies in…

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GOSSIP From Everywhere. Forty-six Pairs of Braces -- Voice of the Wild -- Woman in Her Element as Auctioneer Better Than a Bundy -- Lord Somers' Australian Vocabulary--Ben Chifley Held Up Copper, Gold, and Ink

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 11 April 1931 · page 11

HARRY KNEEBONE, chosen by the S.A. Government to succeed the late Senator Chapman, as one of the State's representatives in the Senate,…

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Mystery Men Drew Relief Money in Coalcliff Strike Baddeley Should Investigate What Became of Working Miners' £16,000 Coupons Paid For Many Months After Striker Had Gone Away to England. Cash Found for Wives and Families with Doubtful Claim Up to You Mr. Baddeley

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 11 April 1931 · page 1

MINERS on the coalfields of New South Wales, who have paid levies to sustain comrades on strike:--and other. Industrials who have paid similar levies:-- "Smith's Weekly" urges you to demand an examination of the COALCLIFF STRIKE, which lasted almost a year, while the working miners subscribed from £1100 to £1200…

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Secret History of the Day Hoo Doo McIntosh's Gold Pass Julian Ashton's Excuse -- First Aid to a Kookaburra -- A Bank Manager Clears His Conscience -- The "Big Fellow" Archbishop How a Business Man Made It Up With His Typist -- "Poor Mac's" Motor Car -- The Moneylender Who Remembered -- How to Pick an Office Boy -- Hard-boiled Cockerels

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 11 April 1931 · page 13

OLD-TIMERS are chuckling over the utter discomfiture of Julian Ashton, posing as doyen in Australian art. Recently In Sydney "Sun" Julian wrote…

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Good Gold Find

The Sun · Monday 13 April 1931 · page 9

KANDOS, Monday.--A rich find of gold is reported from Tara, near Ilford, by M. O'Brien and party. Very rich specimens have been taken and…

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Oxy-coal Cas Lead Burning Equipment

The Sun · Monday 13 April 1931 · page 2

Compared with the older hydrogen and air blowpipes, the oxy-coal gas process of lead-burning possesses the advantages of economy in time and material, convenience…

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News From the Mines Taranaki to Start Now Well

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 April 1931 · page 10

The more satisfactory developments in the Waltangi No. 1 well last week, which encouraged the hope that it would be found possible to make further footage, did not…

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Vital Move by Miners May Withdraw From A.l.p

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 April 1931 · page 7

NEWCASTLE, Sunday.--The Executive of the Northern District of the Miners' Federation yesterday decided that it would…

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Northern Miners. Move to Secede from A.L.P. NEWCASTLE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 April 1931 · page 10

on tne instruction of the Northern Miners' committee of management, which concluded its sittings at the Newcastle Trades Hall yesterday, a ballot of miners' lodges is now being…

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Miners' President Speaks of the King Insultingly. Religion Attacked. Wild Labour, Army Speeches. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 April 1931 · page 9

The miners' northern president (Mr. T. Hoare), in the course of an address at a meeting held in Islington Park this afternoon, form a Newcastle division of the Australian…

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