Gold Medal for Pilot's Bravery London
Ralph Mountain, first officer of the Imperial Airways liner Cygnus, has been awarded the Humane Society's Stonhope Gold Medal for bravery in…
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3,890 stories in Sydney's papers · page 24 of 195
Order Out of Chaos Mine Awards How Federation Helped
PRIOR to the establishment of the Australasian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation in 1916, the mining industry, as it affected the employees, was in a hopelessly chaotic condition…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Ages of Mine Workers. Comparison With Population. "Misleading Result."
A graph comparing age distributions in the Metropolitan Colliery with the male population of Austialia and from which it was claimed the inference…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Delegates to the Miners' Central Council in Conference Yesterday
G. W. GRANT (Vict. Pres.) CAMPBELL ROY (Western Dist.) JIM DONALD (Qld. Rep.) A. FRITSCH (Broken Hill)…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gas Risk in Mines Men Want to See Reports
REPORTS made on the danger or safety of a mine by a Government Mines Inspector should be made available to the workers engaged in such mine. This demand was made by Mr. J. Connell, of the Miners…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Grim Day of Tragedy Three Mining Deaths
KALGOORLIE, Tuesday.--To-day was one of the blackest days in West Australian mining history because-- Two men were killed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners Trapped in Rock Fall. Rescue Efforts 2,500 Feet Underground. KALGOORLIE
Gangs of miners worked desperately in a shaft 2,500 feet underground to-day to release two men who had been imprisoned by a fall of rock in the Ivanhoe mine, in the Lake View…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Barriers Quiet N.G. Goldfields Recede
An easier tendency appeared in all divisions of mining shares yesterday Bariers were quiet, and barely held their ground…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →THE A.W.U. Annual Convention Executive to Deal with Proposals for Mining Department and Districts for New South Wales Attitude of Premier Forgan Smith and Mr. Fallon to Military Training Price of Tickets—Details of Ballots. Publication of Executive Business. Control of N.S.W. Branch
Our report this week of the A.W.U. Convention deals substantially with the proposals for districts and a Mining Department for New South Wales, the control of that Branch, the price of tickets, the publication of…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Red Coal
Mere words uttered in the forensic atmosphere of a Coal Inquiry sometimes fail to convey the real tragedy of the incidents to which they refer…
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The Central Council of the Miners' Federation, now holding its annual meeting, has reviewed events since the…
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featured by DOROTHY LAMOUR A Paramount Player In the above illustration is Dorothy…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Grave Risk of Explosion Mines Inquiry
THERE is a risk of an explosion at the Aberdare Central Colliery. This statement was made at the Safety and Health in Mines Royal Commission yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gold Rush Era Re-created
California in all its romantic glory of the gold rush and mission days is brought to the screen in "The Girl of the Golden West." co-starring Jeanette…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Peculiar Smell in Mine. Gas Danger Discounted
The question of danger from gas in a sealed area of Aberdare Central Colliery was referred to yesterday at the Royal Commission's inquiry into health…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Lower Trend. Gold Shares Move Unevenly
Leading base metal shares slackened yesterday, buying limits being lowered cautiously. None of the chief barriers was dealt…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Reports Hot Spot in Mine Inspector States "No Danger"
"Fire- stink" and high temperatures, in parts of Aberdare Central Colliery, Kitchener, caused danger of explosion…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Pawned Gold Pass Once Belonged To A Governor
A city pawnbroker bought over the counter a gold pass issued to the Governor of Queensland several years ago, it was alleged at the Quarter Sessions Appeals…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →General Cable News. Price of Gold. London, Feb. 15
Gold was quoted to-day at £7/8/4 an ounce fine, compared with £7/8/3½ yesterday. BASE METALS. Base metals (all dull) were quoted at noon…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Ships Fuel. Coal's Losing Battle. Warning by Shipowner. Melbourne
The chairman of the Melbourne Steamship Co., Ltd., Mr. D. York Syme, said at the halfyearly meeting of the company to-day that [?] about one-third of the passenger fleet in the…
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