Turf Notes. Gold Salute's Future
The three-year-old Gold Salute is to be gelded. His owner Mr. A. E. Cooper has arranged with the Randwick trainer J. T. Jamieson to take chaige of Gold Salute after…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Mining & the mines, 1940
3,508 stories in Sydney's papers · page 64 of 176
Fatal Injuries in Mine. Broken Hill
Erne Ockelford, 34, timberman, suffered fatal head Injuries when he was buried by a fall of earth on the 900ft level at the South Mines to-day. Ockelford was adjusting the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Stop Press Phone: M2406, Newcastle 472 Rothbury Miners
NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.--General manager (Mr. Brierley) for Miller and Co., owners of independent Rothbury mines, refused to say…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners Condemn Menzies' Shilly-shallying "Adroit Dodging of Main Issue"
THE executive of the Combined Mining Unions Committee, in a statement issued last night, forcibly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →From Our South Australian Correspondent ADELAIDE, Monday. The Coal Strike
THE past week has shown no alteration in our outlook on this affair. We still refuse to talk about it. The Trades…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Page Five Man's Sad Death in Lonely Mine Story of Drama and Tragedy in Grim Desert Adelaide
UNABLE to recover the body of Hedley Sellars from his mine shaft at Hatches Creek wolfram field, fellowminers sealed the shaft and fashioned a wooden cross to stand over the strange grave…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Britain's Effective Magnetic Mine Foil Week Passes Without One Allied Ship Being Sunk London, Tuesday. Our Own Cable Service
EXPERTS regard the failure of the Germans to sink any British or Allied ship last week as proof of the effectiveness of the new anti-magnetic…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Liquid Coal"
AN interesting now fuel, known as "liquid coal," is being tested as a substitute for petrol under the direction of a Chieage technologist, according to advice…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Coal Police Warning
CANBERRA, Wed.--A warning against colliery proprietors increasing the price of reserve stocks of coal and coke during the strike was issued to-day by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Reports From the Mines
TINGHA ALLUVIALS. -- For six weeks ended March 14, treated 18,000 cubic yards for recovery of 5 tons 14 cwt. tin oxide. Estimated value was £1161. or 1s 3½d a…
Continued on Trove, page 38 →Premier's Warning. "Miners Led Astray."
A warning to the miners not to be led astray by Communistic influences, was issued by the Premier, Mr. Mair, at the general convention of the United…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Badly Hit by Coal Shortage
PORT KEMBLA, Wednesday.--The Coal shortage is hitting the Australian Iron and Steel Company badly. The company is economising in every…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners' Leaders Won't Be Bluffed
Replying to an attack by the Premier, Mr. Mair, yesterday on the miners' leaders, in which he characterised them as being…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners Misled By Reds, Declares Mair
"This time the miners are in the wrong," the Premier (Mr. Mair) said yesterday in his presidential address at the United Australia Party convention. "This coal strike will possibly create one of the greatest…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Gold Medals to Aid Fund
The Lord Mayor's Patriotic and War Fund has received two gold medals as gifts from Billy Moore, a former wellknown Australian wicketkeeper. These…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Papua's Gold Going Up Rubber Production Also Rises
Gold exported from Papua during 1938-39 was nearly double that of two years earlier, while rubber was greater in volume but worth less in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Dismissals. Steelworks Short of Coal. Newcastle's Plight. NEWCASTLE
Two hundred more men were dismissed from the B.H.P. steelworks today, as a result of the coal strike. Union officials say the 10-inch mill is now…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Defeat of Magnetic Mine. The Navy's Secret Triumph. Electrified Girdle Saves Ships
Germany's magnetic mine is beaten. It is now revealed that in 1938 Germany was busily constructing her "murder" mine â the magnetic mine â which has been laid in large numbers in the shallow waters round the British coasts, put overboard from submarines, and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Miners' Food Supplies May Be Cut Off Limit Of Credit Reached CESSNOCK
If storekeepers on the coalfields are not prepared to extend the credit of mine workers beyond the amount specified by their Federation strike docket, many of the men will be without supplies during the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →250 More B.H.P. Men Dismissed Shortage of Coal Cause Newcastle
Another 250 men were discharged from the Broken Hill Pty. steel mills today. This brings the total of men…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →