Making Mines Safer Grant Wanted to Test Device Newcastle
A GOVERNMENT grant toward the testing of a safety device for coal mines is being considered…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mining & the mines, 1938
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Mine Sufferers Act Said to Be Imposing Hardship Better Payments Advocated
AMENDMENT of the Workers' Compensation Act is suggested by compensation officers of the Miners' Federation…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →General Cable News. Price of Gold. London, June 7
Gold was quoted to-day at £7/0/7 an ounce fine, compared with £7/0/8 on Saturday. BASE METALS. Base metals (all firm) were quoted at noon…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Boys Smoke Out 65 Miners Started Fire 200 Feet Down Shaft to Get Pigeons Kalgoorlie
BOYS, who started a fire in a disused mine shaft to smoke out pigeons, smoked out 65 men from their work today. The boys climbed down old ladders in the Hinchcliffe shaft, on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Strike Threat. Miners' Preparations. NEWCASTLE
The Northern Miners president, Mr. T. Hoare, said to-day that credits of £1,500,000 would be available to the Miners' Federation to finance any…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mining Notes
LINDEN (W.A.) GOLD, N.L. Wiluna, June 7.— Crushed 750 tons, yield 257oz gold. MORNING STAR (G. M. A.) MINES, N. L.—From period May 2[?], when the last complete clean-up…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Australian Price of Gold
The price fixed by the Commonwealth Bank for gold, including jewellery, lodged at the Melbourne Mint for the week ended June 3 is at the rate of approximately £8/0/3½ per…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mining Shares Ease. Less Support. Rise in Taranaki Oil
Most classes of mining shares were easier in yesterday's market, support being of an indifferent character. Though metal prices improved, the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Base Metals Down Gold And Silver Prices Fall LONDON, June 8
Base metal prices were down to-day. Falls of 10s a ton in copper and 35s in tin were followed by further easing during late trading…
Continued on Trove, page 44 →State Coal Mine. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—I would like to draw the attention of your readers, and particularly members of the R.S.S.I.L.A. to an advertisement calling applications for the position of under manager…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Colliery Accident. Bulli
The District Coroner gave a finding of accidental death, at the inquest to-day on William Raymond Perkiss, a deal and dumb man, whose body was found on the railway…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Mining Notes
MOUNT MORGAN, LTD.: The board announc[?] that Mr. Eric Campbell, chairman of the company, has been granted leave of absence. KALIMNA OIL CO., N.L., Roma, Old.: Week…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →W.a. Gold Production
The Western Australian gold yield in May was 92,301 ounces, valued at £803,270, a decrease of 2375 ounces on the previous month, but 6,852 ounces more than for May last year…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Brown Coal May Supplant Black
MELBOURNE, Thursday. -- If the Metropolitan Gas Company converts all its gas-making plants to suit brown coal, the consumption of black…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coalowners Attack The Miners Every Day
Unless the coalowners modify their attitude, this State may see in two months' time or less a renewal of economic warfare. Though the mineworkers are now preparing for a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Credits for Miners If They Strike
Arrangements to conduct a general coal strike in the event of its claims not being conceded by the owners have been completed by the Miners' Federation…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Burwood Miners. No Work After Accident Newcastle
The Northern Miners' president, M[?] T. Hoare, said this afternoon that the Burwood Miners' Lodge would not work until a Burwood colliery employee was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Dainties at Afternoon Tea Gold Weather Suggestions
AFTERNOON TEA in winter, is always the more welcome and enjoyable if something hot is included apart from the tea…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Food for Striking Miners. Federation's Plans if Work Ceases
The plans to be adopted by the Miners' Federation to raise credits and to provide for the distribution of relief, if a general strike is declared, were disclosed yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Miners “Second Round” Wonthaggi Will Fight Unemployment, Accidents, High Production
The terrible effect of increased mechanisa[?] [?] on the conditions and employment of the min[?] stressed by the president of the Victorian district Federation (Idris Williams) at a recent meeting of the…
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