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

Mining & the mines, 1952

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Miners’ Chief Criticises Strikes

Central Western Daily · Wednesday 6 August 1952 · page 7

Sir William Lawther, giving his presidential address at the annual conference of the National…

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Miners Protest Wage Case Sequel

National Advocate · Wednesday 6 August 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Miners at 49 New South Wales coal mines today went on strike in protest against the employers' move for a…

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Coal Export Centre Now In Operation

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 6 August 1952 · page 6

The secretary for the Railways, Mr. W. A. An [?]lerson, said yesterday that the new coal export e[?]re at White…

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Coal Transport Minister's Comment

National Advocate · Thursday 7 August 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday: The State Government and the Railway Department were not responsible for any delay in transporting coal from the west…

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Stop Press State Mine Inspection

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 8 August 1952 · page 1

After a walk-out by miners at the State Mine this morning, when two employees complained that water falling…

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Water Seepage Causes Stoppage At State Mine

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 8 August 1952 · page 1

Claiming that water seepage in underground working, wits too great, State Mine employees returned home this…

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Mine Thrown Idle By Surface Blaze

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 11 August 1952 · page 1

Gas and smoke fumes, drawn into Ivanhoc Colliery by the air-intake system from a surface fire on Friday affected eight men working in a section and caused the mine to be idle today…

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Punch Drunk Gold Fish

Central Western Daily · Tuesday 12 August 1952 · page 1

SMELT-BATTERED carp, Gus Goldie, receives a kind word Iron Eastern Suburbs ambulance deputy superintendent Norm Hyett. Gas, who lives in a pond outside the ambulance station, is…

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Six Nations To Implement Coal Plan

Central Western Daily · Tuesday 12 August 1952 · page 3

PARIS, Monday.— Representatives of six Western European nations yesterday began their task of establishing a single market for Europe’s coal and steel under the Schuman Coal and Steel…

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Work By Staff Man Causes Mine Stoppage

Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 12 August 1952 · page 3

Because a staff member yesterday allegedly used a bulldozer to do certain work at the open cut while a…

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Former Shale Works Manager With Coal Firm

Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 12 August 1952 · page 2

Formerly manager of the Glen Davis shale oil works for several years, Mr. S. Christie this week took up duty as…

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Important Conference on State Mine

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 14 August 1952 · page 1

Superintendent of the State Coal Mines, Mr. A. G. Pellow, district Western Miners' Federation…

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Manager Outlines Wartime Mining Conditions In U.K.

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 14 August 1952 · page 2

Conditions under which mine workers had . operated in the United Kingdom during the war were outlined in an address by Mr. R. V. Johnson, manager of the Lithgow State Mine, to the…

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Victoria to Stockpile Coal

National Advocate · Monday 18 August 1952 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Sunday: The Victorian Cabinet tomorrow will consider plans to stockpile coal from the Calide fields in Queensland…

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Mining Experts Confer

National Advocate · Monday 18 August 1952 · page 2

Mt. ISA, Sunday: Experts in the Australia mining industry are gathered tonight in the remote Queensland mining town of Mount Isa…

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Coal for Pakistan Queensland Gets Order

National Advocate · Tuesday 19 August 1952 · page 3

CANBERRA, Monday: Australia is to export coal to Pakistan. The Minister for Customs. Senator O'Sullivan, announced today that he…

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Railways and Coal Gross Misrepresentation Minister's Reply to Herald

National Advocate · Wednesday 20 August 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday: In a statement issued today Mr. W. F. Sheehan, Minister for Transport said. "The Sydney Morning Herald"…

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Two Western Mines Idle

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 22 August 1952 · page 5

A conference of union officials and the management of Western Main under ground mine and open cut…

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State Mine Deputies On Unusual Charges

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 22 August 1952 · page 4

Deputies held responsible positions in coal mines and although they had wrongly held that the responsibility was not theirs, he had no intention of convicting them, Mr. M. J. McGauley, S.M., said in Tuesday's court. He was giving his verdict in an unusual case in which the manager of the State…

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Big Sum Paid in Gold Premiums

National Advocate · Tuesday 26 August 1952 · page 3

BRISBANE, Monday: Producers of gold in Australia and New Guinea have received more than half a million pounds in premiums since the…

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