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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1941

187 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 2 of 10

Coal Mines New Disputes Boards Attempt to Preserve Peace. Canberra

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 11 February 1941 · page 3

Special administrative machinery was set up under the National Security Regulations to-day, to deal with disputes in the coal mining industry in an…

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Coal Control Board Proposed Establishment Would Fill Gap in Supply System. Canberra

Daily Examiner · Thursday 13 February 1941 · page 5

To enable specialised attention to be given by a competent authority to the securing and maintenance of coal supplies for all essential services in…

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Coal Control Distribution and Supply Wartime Provisions for Defence of Australia Canberra

Daily Examiner · Friday 14 February 1941 · page 4

The Federal Government to-day took steps under the National Security Regulations to control the supply, distribution and consumption of coal…

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Enemy Mine On Victorian Coast Washed Up on Beach. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 18 February 1941 · page 5

A mine believed to have broken away from an enemy minefield laid along a section of the Victorian coast was found yesterday washed up on the beach near…

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Fierce Fighting Juba Bridge- Heads Gold Coasters Valiant Somaliland Conquests London

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 19 February 1941 · page 5

While the R.A.F. Australian and African Air Forces and the British Fleet Air Arm ranged from the Indian Ocean to the Adriatic, and from the…

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"Boxed In" Cen. Mediterranean Britain's Huge Mine Field African Troops Take Jumbo Heavy Blows Against Italians. London

Daily Examiner · Monday 24 February 1941 · page 5

The Admiralty, announces the mining of an area of thousands of square miles, in the Mediterranean between Italy and North Africa. This…

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Gold Ring Found Early Days Recalled

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 25 February 1941 · page 4

Mrs. Russell Shearer, of Gleudon, near Singleton, has found an 18-carat gold ring in a corn paddock on the well-known Glendon Estate. The…

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To Be Demolished Tug Alexandra Protest by Chamber of Commerce Development of Local Coal Advocated

Daily Examiner · Thursday 27 February 1941 · page 6

At a meeting of the Grafton and South Grafton Chamber of Commerce last night the secretary, Mr. K. McCallum, reported that he had…

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100 Per Cent. Production of Coal Miners' Pledge Welcome Fadden Appeals to Seamen Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 1 March 1941 · page 4

The Acting Prime Minister, Mr. Fadden, and the Minister for Labor, Mr. Holt, to-day commended the pledge by the miners' leaders to…

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Keeping Watch Lame Gold Frere May Not Start. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 1 March 1941 · page 6

Gold Frere is an unlikely starter in the Sires Produce Stakes, according to his owner, O'Brien. Keeping Watch if lame and will not start…

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Stock Exchange Coal Shares Active. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 4 March 1941 · page 5

No definite price trend was discernible on the Stock Exchange to-day. Leading industrials generally were unchanged. Bank shares were irregular,…

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Miners' Shirt Cloth For Smart Women Britain's Wool Fashions This Spring

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 5 March 1941 · page 3

Portugal is buying three times as many woollen goods from Great Britain as before the war. Woollen tops used to come from France and Belgium. Now all of them, and…

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Peter Bowling 1909 Strike Recalled Miners' Official in Leg Irons. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 8 March 1941 · page 4

Peter Bowling, who in the 1909 coal strike was one of the miners' officials placed in leg irons, is now living in poor circumstances at Newtown…

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Gas and Electricity Price Rise Move At Brisbane After Coal Increase

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 11 March 1941 · page 4

Brisbane gas and electricity suppliers are likely to seek permission to increase gas and electricity charges following the rise in coal prices…

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Gold Rush Near Byron Bay Specimens in Bucket. Lismore

Daily Examiner · Friday 14 March 1941 · page 4

The discovery of gold in a bucket drawn up from a hole sunk for a well at Byron Bay has led to a flood of applications for authorities to enter land…

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Mining Investigations on Upper Clarence

Daily Examiner · Monday 17 March 1941 · page 4

Engineer Captain A. J. Kenrick, R.N.R., who has been visiting Lionsville and Yulgilbar and Pulganbar, returned to Grafton yesterday after…

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Nymboida Coal Used at Casino

Daily Examiner · Thursday 20 March 1941 · page 4

Another stage in the development of the Nymboida coal resources was passed yesterday when a truck load of Nymboida coal was despatched to…

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GOLD New Find At Drake Best Fox Many Years Other Mineral Prospects. Lismore

Daily Examiner · Thursday 20 March 1941 · page 4

A new gold find is reported from Drake by G. Easterbrook and E. Young. The lode is 14 feet wide and carrying 30 pennyweights of gold to the ton…

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Opinions of Our Readers. Gold Find Near Byron Bay

Daily Examiner · Monday 24 March 1941 · page 6

Sir,--I see by the "Daily Examiner" of 12th inst. that gold has been found between the Bay and Brunswick Heads. I know this country well. All the way…

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"Iron Man" Climbs Steep Coal Seams Remote From Human Control

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 26 March 1941 · page 2

It is now possible to cut coal,. without any men at hand, on a steep coal face with a gradient of 60 degrees. This remarkable advance in the…

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