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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1940

294 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 10 of 15

Judge's Warning Coal Mine Hold-ups Federal Arbitration Court. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 6 June 1940 · page 6

The Chief Judge, Sir George Beeby, in the Federal Arbitration Court today, gave warning that he would suspend the present hearing of the claims…

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FOOTBALL Gold Cup Goes To Dorrigo Bellingen Narrowly Defeated

Daily Examiner · Thursday 6 June 1940 · page 1

In one of the hardest games this season, the Dorrigo League team narrowly defeated the Bellingen Cup team at Bellingen last Sunday by…

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Football Dorrigo's Dazzling Display Bellingen Defeated Gold Cup to Dorrigo

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 7 June 1940 · page 5

In one of the hardest games played this season the Dorrigo League team delighted a crowd of well over 200 people with a brilliant display…

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Mineral Sand Mining Operations. Maclean

Daily Examiner · Saturday 8 June 1940 · page 8

Messrs. Porter and Derrick, the company mining mineral sand along the Yamba and Angourie beaches and at the Black Swamp near Wooli, are…

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Bendigo Miners Refuse to Work with Italians. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Friday 14 June 1940 · page 2

The services of Italian miners at the Central Nell Gwynne mine were dispensed with to-day, after other miners at Bendigo told the management they…

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The End of a Mine

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 18 June 1940 · page 2

Steel-helmeted members ol a British mine-sweeper crew line the rails and sink with rifle fire the mine their sweeping has brought to the surface…

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Magnetic Mine How Britain Dealt With It Bravery of Commander Ouvry What He Discovered

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 18 June 1940 · page 7

The full story of how the British Navy, with the assistance of civilian scientists, met and the mastered the magnetic mine may…

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Great Anxiety Fate of French Fleet Nazis Mineral Gains Iron, Coal, Aluminium Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 19 June 1940 · page 4

In spite of the substantial gains Germany has achieved the problem of her oil shortage remains unsolved. She still possesses a yearly deficiency…

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Jungle Generator Dredges Gold From West African River

Daily Examiner · Thursday 20 June 1940 · page 6

The Gold Coast has been given an "electric interior" by British engineers. They have successfully "conquered" a portion of equatorial jungle territory…

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Dorrigo Retains Gold Cup Bellingen Down 15 --9. DORRIGO

Daily Examiner · Thursday 20 June 1940 · page 1

The Bellingen Cup team journeyed to Dorrigo on Sunday last and made a hold hid to lift the Claude Bridge Gold Cup, but were defeated by 15…

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Sunk by Mine Pacific Liner Niagara Terrific Explosion Off the N.Z. Coast Crew and Passengers Saved Wellington (N.z.)

Daily Examiner · Thursday 20 June 1940 · page 5

After striking a mine, the Canadian- Australian liner, Niagara, of 13,451 tons, sank in the Pacific: off Auckland, at 5.30 a.m. to-day, in a…

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Gold Cup Bellingen Fails to Lift Trophy Dorrigo Victorious 15-9

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 21 June 1940 · page 2

Spectators witnessed a thrilling game of football on the local ground last Sunday, when Dorrigo League defeated Bellingen in a fast exciting…

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Mechanical Miners How Britain Has Mobilised Coal Industry and War

Daily Examiner · Thursday 27 June 1940 · page 6

The full power of production in the British coalfields is now mobilised for the first time for a generation. Within the past 20 years the mining…

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Earth Tremor. Mine Workings Subside. Kalgoorlie

Daily Examiner · Thursday 27 June 1940 · page 2

The worst earth tremor for years occurred this morning and resulted in brick walls being cracked and electrical fittings being torn from their sockets…

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Gold Club Annual Ball

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 3 July 1940 · page 4

The members of the Grafton Golf Club will hold their annual grand cabaret ball at the Tracadero on Wednesday evening, July 17. This ball is…

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CENSURED Miners' Vice -President A.L.P. War Policy. Newcastle

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 3 July 1940 · page 5

Six of seven members of the Northern Miners' Committee of Management have called on the northern vice- president, Mr. Scanlon, to restrict his…

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Rewards Offered For Floating Mines FROM £1 TO £5 Each. Canberra

Daily Examiner · Friday 5 July 1940 · page 1

The Federal Government will pay rewards for the detection of floating mines in Australian waters, Regulations gazetted to- day prescribe…

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Dangerous Waters for Nazi Ships Ringed by Mines No Safe Passage for Nazi Ships Hazardous Work by Raf. Bombers Sea Lanes, Harbors. Fjords. Estuaries Mined Twelve German Ships Blown Up London

Daily Examiner · Monday 8 July 1940 · page 5

The Air Ministry announces that R.A.F. bombers obtained outstanding results in mining the Baltic and belts from the eastern-most Baltic port to Northern Norway, and that no safe passage exists there. In addition, no ford, estuary or harbor in German-occupied territory can be used without risk…

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Beach Mining Murwillumbah Warden's Court

Daily Examiner · Friday 12 July 1940 · page 4

At Murwillumbah Warden's Court after the protracted hearing of a plant by Zircon Rutile Limited in which labor conditions and the future…

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Rugby Football Hard Game Expected At Maclean Valuable Gold Cup at Stake

Daily Examiner · Saturday 13 July 1940 · page 3

The Maclean Rugby Football Club will used to field their strongest team when they meet the [?] Tree Island thirteen at [?] Maclean to-day. Cabbage [?] Island…

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