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

Mining & the mines, 1953

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Holiday Adds To Gas Coal Supply Shortage

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 4 May 1953 · page 2

SYDNEY, This Afternoon.--All mines in the northern field--as well as in the west and south are idle today because…

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Empire Mining Engineers To Visit Lithgow

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 6 May 1953 · page 5

One of three parties of engineers, drawn from widely scattered points of the British Empire, at present touring parts of Australia following the completion of the fifth Empire Mining and…

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34 Mines Idle Gas Coal Getting Short

National Advocate · Thursday 7 May 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday: There was more industrial trouble on the NSW coalfields today, 34 mines being idle for u production loss of 25,000 tons…

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Heavy Coal Loss In North

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 8 May 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, This Afternoon.-- Mineworkers at the Ayrefield Colliery today went out in a sympathy strike with John…

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Coal Exports up One Million Tons

National Advocate · Friday 8 May 1953 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday: United Kingdom exports of coal in the first quarter of the year, at 3.18 million tons, were about million tons higher than…

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Washing Plant Dispute Cuts Coal Output

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 11 May 1953 · page 4

A heavy coal loss on the western field resulted today from a dispute at the Commonwealth washing plant which…

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Twenty Mines Idle In N.S.W.

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 11 May 1953 · page 3

SYDNEY; This Afternoon.-- Seventeen mines are idle on the northern field today in sympathy with the John…

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Rugby League State Mine Club Notes

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 14 May 1953 · page 4

Sunday's game between State Mine and Western Suburbs was a very clean encounter played in a good spirit, which the…

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Coal Board to Meet Hospital Deputation

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 14 May 1953 · page 4

Advice from the district engineer of the Joint Coal Board (Mr. T. M. Clarke) that the Board was prepared to meet a deputation from the Portland Hospital executive was received at Friday…

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Blue and Gold Ball was Highly Successful

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 14 May 1953 · page 16

The annual Blue and Gold ball, organised by the Gulgong branch of Country Women's…

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Many Mines Are Idle

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 15 May 1953 · page 2

Addressed by a member of the John Darling lodge yesterday afternoon employees of the Commonwealth washery at…

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Newcom Mine Employee Badly Injured

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 18 May 1953 · page 2

A Newcom colliery employee, who was seriously injured in a mine accident on Friday afternoon, was taken to Royal…

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Heavy Loss of Coal in North

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 18 May 1953 · page 1

NEWCASTLE, This Aft.-- Twenty-nine mines with a total production loss of 18,680 tons are idle on the northern fields…

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Six Mines Idle To-day As Protest

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 18 May 1953 · page 2

Six western mines were idle to-day as a protest against the John Darling dispute and the suspension of…

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Big Coal Losses Continue

National Advocate · Tuesday 19 May 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY. Monday: Dispute over the dismissal of a men at John Darling caused stoppages at 33 mines on this northern and southern coalfields…

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Threat Against Life Of Mining Deputy

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 20 May 1953 · page 2

SYDNEY, This Afternoon.--C.I.B. defectives were investigating an anonymous letter that John Darling deputy, Thomas Mowbray, had received on Friday night, Mr. N. N. Hindmarsh…

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Tests made on Western coal

Central Western Daily · Friday 22 May 1953 · page 2

Plans for a centr al gasworks at Wallerawang to serve a number of Western towers ar a being held in abeyance for the present, Orange Council gas manager, Mr. W. H. Willet, said yesterday The Project Which is…

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Warning to Miners by Coal Tribunal

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 25 May 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, This Afternoon.-- A B.H.P. representative announced today that all employees of John Darling colliery, except those needed for essential maintenance, would receive dismissal notices next Friday. The representative (Mr. E. Wilkinson), who is B.H.P. superintendent of…

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Only Three Collieries Working in West

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 25 May 1953 · page 1

Western miners were seething with resentment against the action of the Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. F. H. Gallagher), who laid aside the Federation log of claims because of the John…

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Gold Cup Comes To Cargo

Central Western Daily · Monday 25 May 1953 · page 12

The Jack Hore Gold Cup. one of the most valuable of all Rugby League…

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