Effigy of Black Prince Pure Gold
THE famous life-size black effigy of the Black Prince over his tomb in Canterbury Cathedral (Eng.) has been found to be of pure gold…
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On Coal World Still Runs Power Need
THE world runs after diamonds, said an economist once, but it runs after them on coal. Diamonds and coal, in fact, are just white brother and black brother in the chemical community of carbon, with…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Coal Stocks Diminishing Only 11 Weeks' Supply
FACED with the, possibility of a breakdown in electricity services because of the exhaustion of coal stocks, the Sydney County…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mine Explosion. Man Killed, Another Injure[?] Brisbane
Richard Williams, 26, a native of Wales, [?] blown to pieces while working in a drive[?] the No. 4 level of the Mount Isa mines [?] night. His companion, E. Densham, was [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Killed in Mine Turned Down Holiday Mt. Isa
Thomas Albert Williams, 30, was killed during blasting operations in the Mt. Isa mine last night. On Monday he had turned down…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Miners' Wages Claims Owners Meeting Is Again Adjourned London
A meeting of the National Executive of the Mine Owners' Federation, which was adjourned from before Christmas till to-day, has been…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Attitude of Miners Outlined Applying Licences To Transport Workers. Ship Dispute
IN a broadcast address last night, Mr. W. Orr. secretary of the Miners Federation, discussed today's stop-work meetings on the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →General Cable News. Price of Gold. London, Jan. 7
Gold was quoted to-day at £7/1/0½ an ounce fine, compared with £7/1/2 yesterday. FOREIGN EXCHANGES. The united States dollar was quoted…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Our Lost Coal Trade. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—The adage, "We don't carry coals to Newcastle," can now be altered to read "We don't carry coals to lost markets." For many years we supplied China, Japan, the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Sydney Morning Herald. Wednesday, January 8, 1936. Will the Miners Be Misled?
The shipping strike organised by extremists in the Seamen's Union is gradually collapsing. The militants still talk about it as continuing until owners…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Control of Currency. Success of the British Method. Contrast with Gold Standard
In our issue of December 22 the reasons actuating the British Government in keeping British currency free from the entanglement of a gold standard were stated. The reasons…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →The Miners. Vital Decision To-day On the Coalfields. Signs of Opposition to Strike. Newcastle
Developments in the north to-day may prove of importance when the mine workers' aggregate meetings vote to-morrow on the recommendation of the joint consultative committee…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Miners' Overwhelming Vote Against Strike Rebuff For The Seamen Mass Meetings On All Fields How Figures Went
WITH few figures outstanding, results of the miners' aggregate meetings to-day reveal overwhelming majorities against a general stoppage of the coalmines, except at Wonthaggi (Victoria) and at Helensburgh, where the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Miners Hold Big Meetings To-day A.C.T.U. May Call Fed. Conference Monk Expresses Strong Views Dunningham Blunders
ARISING out of discussions, yesterday between the executive officers office A.C.T.U. and the Central Council of the Miners' Federation, the Emergency Committee of the A.C.T.U. is to be asked to convene a conference of Federal Unions in Sydney early next week…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New Occidental Gold Mines
Production report of New Occidental Gold Mines, N.L., for December, showed: Tons milled. 5122: fine ounces gold produced, 1694…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Collieries' President Pleased. "A Calamity Averted."
"I am glad that the sane section of the miners has decided against the strike," said the president of the Northern Collieries Association[?] (Mr. C. M. McDonald)[?] yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Miners Vote "No"
IT causes no great surprise that the coal miners have refused by ballot to declare a strike in sympathy with the seamen, though the wide difference between the numbers For and Against is most surprising…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Western Miners. Lithgow
At the mass meeting of miners at Lithgow, Mr. Campbell Roy, president of the western miners, said it was the most grave and serious issue the miners had been asked to vote on…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Miners' President Is Disappointed Brisbane
The general president of the Miners' Federation. Mr. C. Nelson, expressed keen disappointment at the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Gold, Dollar, Franc London
The price of gold to-day was £7105 per fine ounce, unchanged from yesterday. The dollar was quoted at 4.93 5-16 to the £ sterling…
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