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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 6 of 50

The Miners Important Meeting Today Commissioner's Decisions to be Discussed

National Advocate · Friday 6 February 1948 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday: In Sydney tomorrow, the Combined Mining Unions' Council will discuss the claims of enginedrivers and fire…

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Coal Unions to Meet Trouble Likely Over Award Suspension SYDNEY, Thursday

National Advocate · Friday 6 February 1948 · page 3

Discussions on coal production will take place tomorrow at a meeting of the Combined Mining Union's Council…

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Stamp Issue to Celebrate the Discovery of Gold ? Suggested By Western Body

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Friday 6 February 1948 · page 7

A suggestion was made at the last Bathurst Chamber of Commerce meeting that there should be a special stamp issue to…

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Threat by Miners Coal Board Attacked

Central Western Daily · Saturday 7 February 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday. — The Joint Coal Board was again under fire from the Central Council of the Miners’…

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Gold Guilt Heavily Backed

Central Western Daily · Saturday 7 February 1948 · page 5

Stableraate of little River. v Stablemate of Little River, and owned in the same interests, Gold Guilt was backed…

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First Local Stoppage At Vale Colliery In 17 Months

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 9 February 1948 · page 1

Claiming that the hard nature of the coal did not permit them to earn wages and that the management should make up the deficiency according to the award, miners of the Vale of Clwydd colliery broke their 17 months' unbroken…

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Gold Reserve As Economic "Prop" Britain's Plight

National Advocate · Monday 9 February 1948 · page 2

LONDON, Sunday: Britain's economic" and financial leader, Sir Stafford Cripps, has told the nation that only the Empire's old reserve stands…

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Adjournment in Mining Case

National Advocate · Tuesday 10 February 1948 · page 2

A fortnignt's adjournment was granted by the Mining Warden at Bathurst Warden's Court yesterday, when Mrs. McLay, of Bathurst…

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Mine Employee Fined For Working After Reaching Age Limit

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 11 February 1948 · page 2

An unusual charge involving a mineworker who continued to work after the specified age of 65 years, under a certain section of the Mine Workers' Pensions Act--the first prosecution of its kind in this district…

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Kandos Colliery's First Strike for Seven Years

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 12 February 1948 · page 4

Employees of the Kandos Colliery returned home yesterday, following a dispute which developed at the "picking belts,"…

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Is General Coal Strike Threatened?

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 12 February 1948 · page 3

A general coal strike next week is more clearly threatened now because of the collapse of the combined mining unions' negotiations…

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Fluorescent Lighting And Power Borers For Western Mines

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 12 February 1948 · page 1

Delay in the delivery of power borers to western collieries was mainly due to the fact that there is only one firm in the world making the battery-operated mobile borers, said Mr. A. T. Kirk. electrical engineer of the Joint Coal…

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Coal Dispute Feared Union Council to Meet Tomorrow

National Advocate · Thursday 12 February 1948 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Pears of another dispute on the coalfields have been revived by the failure bf the mining unions to have lifted a…

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Coal Board And Road Upkeep- Shire President On Public Apathy

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 12 February 1948 · page 4

Blaxland Shire Council will ask the Joint Coal Board to assist in the maintenance of roads over which miners travel to and from work daily. Suggesting that the Board might…

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Siding for Open Cut Collieries

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 13 February 1948 · page 1

As from Monday morning the old Renown Extended siding will be open for the loading of coal, a railway official said this morning. The coal…

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Week's Good Coal Output

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 13 February 1948 · page 1

Only the Vale of Clwydd Colliery was idle to-day on the western field, total output being estimated at 11,050 tons…

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Efforts to Avert Coal Stoppage Union Meeting Today SYDNEY

National Advocate · Friday 13 February 1948 · page 3

The Combined Mining Unions Council is expected to decide at its meeting tomorrow whether there is to be another general coal hold-up…

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Coal Stoppage Averted

National Advocate · Saturday 14 February 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday: The immediate threat of a general coal [?]ke in NSW has been averted. The combined Mi[?] Unions'…

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Total Coal Stoppage May Be Averted Sydney, This Afternoon

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 16 February 1948 · page 1

It is expected that the State Council of the Federated Enginedrivers and Firemen's Association will move late to-day or…

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Big Expenditure Likely on Local Mine

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 18 February 1948 · page 3

As a matter of interest, the "Mercury" understands that something like £300,000 is to be progressively spent on the…

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