Minister Will Investigate Shortage Of Coal Tracks
Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 13 October 1954 · page 2
Both coal owners and miners' leaders visualised that 800 miners would be out of work by Christmas if the serious shortage of railway trucks continued, Mr. W. McNally told the Minister for Transport (Mr. E. Wetherell) yesterday. Mr. McNally is secretary of the Western Coal Owners' Assn…
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Central Western Daily · Thursday 14 October 1954 · page 1
BRISBANE, Wednesday. —Seven miners were killed and two others unaccounted for after they…
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Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 14 October 1954 · page 4
BRISBANE, Wed.-- Seven men were killed by an inrush of poison gas in the Collinville State coalmine early tonight…
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National Advocate · Thursday 14 October 1954 · page 1
BRISBANE, Wednesday: Seven miners were killed and two others seriously affected by poison gas at the Collinsville State Mine about…
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Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 14 October 1954 · page 19
Last week's meeting of the Rylstone-Kandos Rotary Club was addressed by Mr. J. Cook, manager of the…
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Lithgow Mercury · Friday 15 October 1954 · page 3
Injuries sustained by three mineworkers in separate accidents yesterday were treated by Lithgow ambulance personnel…
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Central Western Daily · Friday 15 October 1954 · page 2
BRISBANE, Thursday .—A mass funeral was conducted today for the seven…
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National Advocate · Friday 15 October 1954 · page 10
BRISBANE, Thursday: More than 1500 people and the drivers of at least 600 ears today attended the mass funeral of seven miners who died from…
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Central Western Daily · Friday 15 October 1954 · page 2
MOSCOW, Thursday.— Lydia Ivanova has been presented with the gold medal of the Soviet…
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Central Western Daily · Friday 15 October 1954 · page 2
Members of the Orange Historical Society said last night the discovery of the Hargraves letter and gold nugget in Sydney was “an important historical find.”…
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National Advocate · Monday 18 October 1954 · page 1
BRISBANE, Sunday: A mass meeting of 300 miners in Northern Queensland today demanded an immediate open inquiry into conditions at the…
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Lithgow Mercury · Monday 18 October 1954 · page 2
A move by the manager of Steelworks Colliery to arrange for some employees to commence work an hour…
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Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 19 October 1954 · page 2
An abandoned gold mine in the neighborhood of Bad Gastein, in the Salzburg province of Austria, has become…
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Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 20 October 1954 · page 5
The State Coal Mines Authority had asked for an allocation of more than £1 million but had received £500,000, a witness told Central Court on Monday…
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Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 20 October 1954 · page 2
Because steps were being taken to have the particular legislation revoked, two men were discharged under section 556A when they pleaded guilty in Tuesday's court to having a number of…
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Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 21 October 1954 · page 6
Thirty teams are to compete for the Joint Coal Board Shield on Saturday. The event also carries a trophy valued at £10…
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Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 21 October 1954 · page 2
Miners in the western field are now facing a serious threat to their jobs following the failure of the State Government to make more railway trucks available to haul coal which is now being dumped in hundreds of tons daily around pit tops…
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Lithgow Mercury · Friday 22 October 1954 · page 5
Caught between two skips at the Steelworks colliery yesterday, Albert Gough of Tank-street, had the index…
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National Advocate · Saturday 23 October 1954 · page 5
SYDNEY, Friday: A Crown witness in a conspiracy case was himself today charged with conspiracy. The witness is William Wile…
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Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 27 October 1954 · page 4
The N.S.W. Combined Colliery Proprietors Association has offered £3,000 a year for five years to expand coal…
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