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Mining & the mines, 1937

4,349 stories in Sydney's papers · page 35 of 218

Mines Disputes. Northern Coalfields. Unrest May Extend. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 February 1937 · page 17

A special meeting of the northern miners' management committee to-day considered three disputes which may cause repercussions throughout the…

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Max Gold. Returns to Racing. Nominated for Ascot

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 February 1937 · page 15

Among the nominations for the Fourteentwo Handicap at Ascot next Wednesday is that of the pony, Mas Gold. His entry recalls an interesting circumstance in which [?] figured…

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Relief Work for Welsh Miners. Refugees From Spain. Orontes' Arrivals

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 February 1937 · page 4

Relief work for miners in Wales and new methods of kindergarten teaching in London interested Lady Sulman, of McMahon's Point, and Miss Florence…

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Mining the Share Market. Base Metals Steadier

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 February 1937 · page 13

Base metal shares wete quieter and steadier in the curtalled trading period of yesterday's market, Mt. Lyell and Barriers opened lower and closed with a hardening trend. The…

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General Cable News. Price of Gold. London, Feb. 24

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 February 1937 · page 12

Gola was quoted to-day at £7/2/2½ an ounce fine, the same rate as yesterday's. MENAI STRAITS BRIDGE. Telford's famous suspension bridge across…

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HORSES & Men Blown Up Mines Explode In Civil War LONDON

The Sun · Friday 26 February 1937 · page 13

Bodies of men and horses were flung into the air as the loyalists set off three mines beneath the rebels at Carabanchel, some miles…

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Death Awaiting 400 "Suicide" Strike in Mine Shaft Three Killed by Police Budapest

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 26 February 1937 · page 1

THE poisoned air of the Five Churches Colliery shafts, at Pecs, may kill 400 miners before the mine waters rise…

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With Saddle and Spur Ne Futurity Stakes to Champion Colt Gold Rod

The Land · Friday 26 February 1937 · page 19

MR. E. J. WATT'S three-year-old colt, Gold God, returned to form with a bang when he unwound a devastating finish to win the Futurity Stakes at Caufield last Saturday. His great win confounded the critics, who considered the colt would not again reach the form he showed earlier in his career…

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Miners’ Prevention Campaign Vindicated Need for Greater Safety Measures and Better Conditions Wonthaggi Disaster Proves

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 26 February 1937 · page 2

With the discovery of the bodies in the wrecked colliery, the funeral of the victims and expressions of sympathy with…

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No Panic on Steamer Which Hit Mine 300 Passengers Sang and Danced Cheerfully London

The Sun · Friday 26 February 1937 · page 12

THERE was no panic when the 10,609-ton British steamer, Llandovery Castle, with 300 passengers aboard, struck a floating mine off Cape Cerbere, where the Fanco-Spanish frontier joins the Mediterranean coast…

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Police Fire on Crowd. Two Killed in Hungary. Miners' "Stay-in" Strike. BUDAPEST, Feb. 25

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 February 1937 · page 12

Gendarmes killed three persons and wounded seven when they fired a volley into a group of miners and women who were demonstrating in support of a "stay-in" strike in a…

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Motoring News And Reviews-- Tourist Town of the Week Tamworth And The Gold Rush

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 26 February 1937 · page 17

THIS week's tourist town selected by the N.R.M.A., is Tamworth, 285 miles from Sydney on…

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Finance And Commerce Daily Telegraph Classified Information Section Markets And Mining Metal Stocks Ease on Less Active Trade

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 26 February 1937 · page 21

ALTHOUGH metal prices, excepting tin, recovered partially, dependent stocks were more Subdued yesterday and somewhat easier. Business ceased at 1 p.m. on account…

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New Goldfield Is Not Healthy

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 26 February 1937 · page 8

Scarred by leech and insect bites, and weak from the effects of fever, Captain A. J. Kenrick, South African mining engineer and geologist, returned…

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North Wallarah Mine

The Labor Daily · Saturday 27 February 1937 · page 7

North Wallarah Mine, where 30 miners have barricade themselves in the haulage tunnel and begun a "stay-in" strike against st the introduction of an electric machine to increase the output Note the police at the foot of the runaway. Every stranger…

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Could Blow Up Mine

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 February 1937 · page 17

When the strike began this morning, one representative of the management went underground. Later, it was claimed that the explosive had been…

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Police At The Mine

The Labor Daily · Saturday 27 February 1937 · page 7

Officials of the Northern Miners' Federation stated last night that the presence of police at North Wallarah Mine was provocative, and an attempt to intimidate one side in the dispute. It was officially stated that the police were present to protect…

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North Gympie Gold Deposits

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 February 1937 · page 19

Directors of North Gympie Gold Deposits, N.L., are asking shareholders to consider resolutions for an increase of capital and change of the company's name to Comet Deeps,…

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"Stay-in" Strike of Miners. 30 Men Barricaded in Mine Tunnel. Supplied with Quantity of Explosives. Police Cordon Stops Food Supplies Miners Threaten General Strike and Mass March. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 February 1937 · page 17

The first "stay-in" strike in the New South Wales coal-mining industry began to-day at the North Wallarah colliery, about two miles south of Swansea. Declaring thal they would not come above ground again…

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Stay-in Miners Flee Terror Budapest

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 27 February 1937 · page 3

Twenty-one of the 400 miners staging a "stay-in" strike at Five Churches Colliery, Pecs, escaped today from the shaft where they had been voluntary prisoners for 72 hours. They told anxious relatives and…

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