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Mining & the mines, 1940

3,508 stories in Sydney's papers · page 33 of 176

Hughes Urges Mine Talks

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 21 February 1940 · page 7

The Federal Attorney-General (Mr. Hughes) yesterday urged that parties in the coal mining dispute should meet to…

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Australian Gold Price

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 February 1940 · page 10

SOVEREIGNS: £2/9/, unch, (Commonwealth Bank). GOLD: Fine ounce, £10/13/3, unch.; standard ounce (22 carats), £9/15/5¾, unch,…

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Mine-Owners Stand By Award

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 21 February 1940 · page 2

"The tactics now being adopted by the Combined Mining Unions will not influence colliery proprietors in their…

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Hit Mine, Did Not Sink

The Sun · Wednesday 21 February 1940 · page 10

An 11,000-ton British freighter, survivor of Hitler's mining campaign off the English coast, has…

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Home News. Coal Talks Urged

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 February 1940 · page 1

The Federal Attorney-General, Mr. Hughes, urged yesterday that a conference be held in the coal dispute. If the threatened strike took place, he said, it would be a national disaster…

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Adelong Gold Estates, N.l

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 February 1940 · page 10

Until a further test by shaft sinking was completed, and the directors were able to make a complete analysis, they did not feel disposed to make any move toward acquiring…

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Gold Salute Fit MELBOURNE

Daily News · Wednesday 21 February 1940 · page 7

GOLD SALUTE, inclined to be sore yesterday, appears to be back to normal…

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To Buy 1,000,000 Tons of Coal

Daily News · Wednesday 21 February 1940 · page 5

Orders for coal stacks amounting to more than 1,000,000 tons. will shortly be placed by the Sydney County Council to cover the next two years…

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Call Conference Govt. Has Power Fresh Plea On Mines

The Sun · Wednesday 21 February 1940 · page 5

"The Government has the power to compel the parties to the coal dispute to meet, but it has no power to…

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Gold Salute. Fast Five at Caulfield. MELBOURNE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 February 1940 · page 17

Outstanding among tne Futurity Stakes candidates that galloped at Caulfield to-day was Gold Salute, on the steeplechase grass. The chestnut covered five furlongs in 1m 3s,…

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Mining Shares Lower. Shaded Rates. Restricted Dealings

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 February 1940 · page 10

Price movements in the share market yesterday were mostly lower. The firmness exhibited in copper interests on the previous day was not…

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Coal Talks Urged. Mr. Hughes's View "Strike Would be a Disaster." Proprietors Firm

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 February 1940 · page 13

The Federal Attorney-General and Minister for Industry, Mr. Hughes, urged yesterday that a conference be held in the coal dispute…

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Mining Unions Still Seek Agreement Want Parley Before End of Month Owners' Case

Daily News · Wednesday 21 February 1940 · page 5

THE Combined Mining Unions' Committee has officially informed the coal proprietors that they are still prepared to confer before the end of the month to negotiate an…

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Good Trial By Boom Colt Tidal Wave Fit for Saturday Gold Salute Speedy But Again Erratic MELBOURNE

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 21 February 1940 · page 16

Sydney's boom two-year-old here, Tidal Wave, ran an excellent gallop at Caulfield today. He ran five furlongs in 1.234, covering the last half mile in 50, with something in hand…

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Coal Short While Miners Unemployed

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 22 February 1940 · page 3

LONDON, Wednesday.--Labor members asserted in the Commons that there is serious unemployment on the coalfields, yet consumers are seriously short…

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Hughes' Plea to Miners

Daily News · Thursday 22 February 1940 · page 2

The Government had the power to call a compulsory conference, but it could not compel the parties to arrive at a settlement…

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Australian Gold Price

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 22 February 1940 · page 6

GOLD: Fine ounce, £10/13/3, unch.; standard ounce (22 carats), £9/15/5¾, unch. SOVEREIGNS: £2/9/, unch…

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The Present Coal Position

Daily News · Thursday 22 February 1940 · page 6

FOR the information of the general public, the colliery proprietors of the Northern, Southern and Western districts of N.S.W. publish the following correspondence with the Combined Mining Unions, and a statement setting out the owners' attitude in the present…

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Wants Govt. to Aid Mine

Daily News · Thursday 22 February 1940 · page 5

The entire Broken Hill community would suffer seriously if the Central Mine there was closed down, Mr. R…

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Hit by Mine But Saved

Daily News · Thursday 22 February 1940 · page 7

Although a mine tore a huge hole in her bows, a large British freighter, which has now arrived at Sydney, did not sink, but made port,…

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