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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1948

982 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 15 of 50

Northern Miners' Board Disciplines Strikers

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 28 April 1948 · page 3

Fifteen wheelers who stopped production at Stockrington No. 1 Colliery on Thursday and Friday were each fined £3 by the Northern…

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Goal Formula Endorsed by Miners' Representative

National Advocate · Wednesday 28 April 1948 · page 2

SYDNEY. Tuesday: One of the leading coal owners; representatives in NSW today endorsed the six point formula put, forward by Northern…

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Bee Migration Like a Gold-rush Dangers For The Unwary

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Wednesday 28 April 1948 · page 5

Beekeepers who have kept abreast of recent development in migratory bee-keeping must admit that this important aspect of…

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British Coal Output

National Advocate · Thursday 29 April 1948 · page 3

LONDON, Wednesday: Coal output last week was 4,269,000 tons, compared with 4,224,100 tons in tile previous week…

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Gold Leases at Forest Reefs £40,000 Mentioned

Central Western Daily · Thursday 29 April 1948 · page 2

A man said in the Orange Warden’s court yesterday that £40,000 would probably be expended on working a gold mining lease at Forest Reefs. Norman Cowey, secretary…

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Old Gold Field To Be Worked as Quarry Western Councils to Benefit Sydney

National Advocate · Friday 30 April 1948 · page 5

In a statement issued at Parliament House yesterday, Mr. P. J. Cahill, MLA for Young, said that plans had now been finalised for the opening of…

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Decision on State Mine Deputies' Promotion

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 3 May 1948 · page 2

Deputies employed at the State Mine shall be entitled to promotion in accordance with their seniority of service at the mine in the following…

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Coal Board to Assist Workmen's Clubs

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 3 May 1948 · page 4

The establishment of workmen's clubs on the coalfields will be assisted financially by the Miners' Federation and the Joint Coal Board, it is…

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Vale Miners To Continue Ban On Zig-zag Hotel

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 3 May 1948 · page 2

Members of the Vale of Clwydd miners' lodge, at a special pit-top meeting on Thursday, decided to reaffirm their original decision to place a ban on the Zig-zag Hotel during the tenancy of the present licensee…

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Your Hollywood and Mine "They're Not All Perfect" (Exclusive to Advocate)

National Advocate · Monday 3 May 1948 · page 1

Introducing an exclusive feature to the Advocate by Ben Bernard, one-time Hollywood reporter, now a Bathurst resident…

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University Preference for British Miners, Farmers

Central Western Daily · Tuesday 4 May 1948 · page 3

LONDON, Monday. — In view of the continued pressure on universities in the United Kingdom, men and women who have served in the armed forces will, as in the past, be given preference when…

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Gold Watch Theft Two Years Gaol for Orange Man

National Advocate · Tuesday 4 May 1948 · page 4

ORANGE, Monday: At the Orange Quarter Sessions today, before Judge Shortland, Ronald Charles Griffiths (25), laborer, was sentenced to two…

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Miners Endorse Harmony Plan

National Advocate · Thursday 6 May 1948 · page 8

NEWCASTLE, Wednesday: Miners' lodge officials on the northern coal-fields today endorsed the Miners' Federation six-point plan to end…

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A Gold Sheep

National Advocate · Thursday 6 May 1948 · page 8

CAPE TOWN, Wednesday: Because a parson found a gold tooth in a sheep's head he was having for supper, a gold rush has started in…

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U.K. Coal Output

National Advocate · Thursday 6 May 1948 · page 2

LONDON, Wednesday: Coal output last week was £223,300 tons compared with [?] tons in the previous week…

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Formula to Stop Unauthorised Coal Strikers

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 6 May 1948 · page 4

A conference of 57 northern miners' lodge representatives yesterday adopted, almost unanimously, proposals to eliminate unauthorised…

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Production of Coal

Central Western Daily · Friday 7 May 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday: High coal production has been maintained in the New South Wales mines during the past…

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Miners Honor Antistrike Code Newcastle

National Advocate · Friday 7 May 1948 · page 5

There were no unauthorised strikes by northern miners to-day, following the endorsement yesterday by a conference of lodges of an anti-strike…

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Great Developments At State Mine Predicted By Minister

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 7 May 1948 · page 2

Following a three-hour inspection of the State Mine yesterday morning, the Minister for Mines (Mr. J. M. Baddeley) said the mine would lend itself readily to complete mechanisation and he would recommend…

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District Bus Services Dislocated--Heavy Coal Loss

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 7 May 1948 · page 1

Two of the larger collieries on the Mudgee line were idle to-day and attendances at others were affected as a direct result of the "black" ban imposed on the Newham and Hall bus services from midnight last night by the…

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