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Page 48
... began to trek to Zeehan in search of new mines . Several directors of the Silverton Tramway Company , then beginning its amazing career as one of the richest Broken Hill companies , drew up plans to spend £ 70,000 on a private railway ...
... began to trek to Zeehan in search of new mines . Several directors of the Silverton Tramway Company , then beginning its amazing career as one of the richest Broken Hill companies , drew up plans to spend £ 70,000 on a private railway ...
Page 197
... began a strike which lasted more than a year and in 1908 the Magnet men struck for twenty- eight weeks . In 1908 the Mt. Lyell Co. began to feel the labour shortage which was afflicting mines all over the southern states . The alarm ...
... began a strike which lasted more than a year and in 1908 the Magnet men struck for twenty- eight weeks . In 1908 the Mt. Lyell Co. began to feel the labour shortage which was afflicting mines all over the southern states . The alarm ...
Page 202
... began , Regan had slipped quietly away to find work elsewhere . He signed on with a gang on the Flowerdale - Burnie railway but after half a day the men discovered who he was and refused to work with him . He went to the Magnet mine ...
... began , Regan had slipped quietly away to find work elsewhere . He signed on with a gang on the Flowerdale - Burnie railway but after half a day the men discovered who he was and refused to work with him . He went to the Magnet mine ...
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