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

Mining & the mines, 1952

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N.Z. Miners Win Big Incomes From High-Level Scheelite Fields (By a Reuter Correspondent)

Central Western Daily · Monday 26 May 1952 · page 6

WELLINGTON. — Miners who work among bleak high peaks in rugged Central Otago are earning handsome returns from their striges of scheme, from which is produced tungstic acid for toughening steel…

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Mining Court

National Advocate · Tuesday 27 May 1952 · page 2

At yesterday's bitting of the Bathurst Mining Warden's Court. Mr. Ward, SM, granted permission to enter for a period of six months to…

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Dispute Over Seniority at Wang Colliery

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 28 May 1952 · page 1

Wallerawang Colliery, which has the best working record of any pit on the western field, was idle today…

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Gold Coast P.m

Central Western Daily · Thursday 29 May 1952 · page 3

Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, Leader Government Business of the Gold Coast, recently became Prime Minister. The change was…

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Blue and Gold Ball at Mendooran

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 29 May 1952 · page 18

The Blue and Gold Ball held at Mendooran on May 21 was an outstanding social success…

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Loading Cuts Prevent Coal Output Record

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 30 May 1952 · page 1

Failure of several loading points on the western field yesterday to reach anticipated loading figures prevented…

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Coal Loading Depot Balmain Scheme

National Advocate · Saturday 31 May 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday: Good progress being made with the scheme for the shipment of coal from Sydney to other States. and it is hoped that the…

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Stay Down Strike in Glen Davis Shale Mine

Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 3 June 1952 · page 2

Miners at Glen Davis began a stay-down strike in the shale mine last night in an attempt to prevent or seriously delay attempts to dismantle the plant Eighteen men went underground on the afternoon shift after 30 of their comrades had been dismissed…

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Soviet Gold on Arms Reductions for Red China

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 4 June 1952 · page 2

NEW YORK, Wednesday.-- The Soviet Union told the Western Powers yesterday she would not discuss any…

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Tay in by Miners Glen Davis Action Glen Davis

National Advocate · Wednesday 4 June 1952 · page 2

Eighteen miners are carrying on a stay down strike in the Glen Davis shale mine in the hope of including the Government…

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Western Mines Stop Work In Support Of Glen Davis Strikers

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 4 June 1952 · page 2

While the Western Miners' Federation district executive went to Glen Davis early this morning to speak to 47 shale miners staging a stay-in strike, most western mines and open-cuts this morning came out in sympathy and the district production figures were cut to a few hundred tons. Reports…

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Britain's Coal Stocks Rise

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 5 June 1952 · page 6

The rising stocks of coal in Britain as well as the increase in manpower is an encouraging omen for next winter…

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Prime Minister of the Gold Coast

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Friday 6 June 1952 · page 2

The Prime Minister will rain in precedence in the Cabin immediately after the Governor, or Officer Administer…

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Western Mines Resume Glen Davis Men Still Down

National Advocate · Friday 6 June 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday: All Western mines worked today, following a resume-work order by the Western Miners' Federation…

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Blue and Gold Ball

National Advocate · Saturday 7 June 1952 · page 2

The Mayor, Aid. Morse, will officially open the 1952 CWA Blue and Gold Ball in the Walshaw Hall next Wednesday night. Music will be…

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Gold Crowns Returned

Central Western Daily · Tuesday 10 June 1952 · page 3

NEW YORK, Monday.— Two jewel-encrusted gold crowns returned by post yesterday, eight days after…

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Miners' Federation Will Oppose Saturday Trade

Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 10 June 1952 · page 2

In their fight to retain the five-year-old Saturday closing system in Lithgow, the Shop Assistants' Union has won the support of the largest militant industrial group in the district -- the Western Miners' Federation. As the two factions--em…

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Representations To Premier On Mine Dismissals

Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 10 June 1952 · page 2

Acting immediately on receipt of an urgent telegram from Mr. J. H. King, district secretary…

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Joint Coal Board Provides Facilities for Wang School

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 11 June 1952 · page 2

The chairman of the Joint Coal Board (Mr. S. F. Cochran), to-day announced that the Board had approved a grant…

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Denial Men leaving Mine

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 12 June 1952 · page 2

Point-blank denials to rumors that Glen Davis "stayput" strikers were leaving the mine overnight, returning early next morning and making periodical visits to the township, were made this morning by the…

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