Miners' Vote £100 to Communists
SYDNEY, Tues.—The Miners' Central Council to-day voted £150 to the Australian Labour Party and £100 to the Communist…
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Mining & the mines, 1947
261 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 6 of 14
11 Men Trapped In Mine
MALARTIC (Quebec), Sun.— All hope was abandoned yesterday, for the 11 men who have been trapped in the smoke-filled…
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SYDNEY. Mon.—Engineers at all coalmines on the Maitland coalfield will stop work to hold a meeting on May 7, and this will…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →News In Brief Miners Trapped
TERREHAUTE (Indiana), Thurs.--Eight miners were trapped after an explosion which rocked a small coal mine…
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NEW YORK, Friday.--Every family which lost men folk in the last month's coalmine disaster at Centralia, Illinois, will receive…
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YAMBA, Fri.—The Yamba Development Committee has lodged at protest against any lease or right being given to…
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Plans to paint Betty Hutton and a chorus line with gold lacquer for the spectacular Casino de Paris finale in…
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BROKEN HILL, Mon.--Broken Hill's miners will be paid a bonus of £815 a week or £115 a shift during June. The present…
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CANBERRA, Fri.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) said today the claims of the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemen's…
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SYDNEY, Sun.--Government experts will confer to-morrow on steps to be taken to prevent an extension of the mine creep…
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CANBERRA, Wed.--Coalcliff colliery, on the South Coast N.S.W. which was taken over the Government during the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Reference Board Powers Transferred
CANBERRA, Wed. -- The Federal Government to-day agreed to transfer powers of the Central Coal Reference…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Shortage Might Cause Sugar Famine In N.S.W.
SYDNEY, Thursday.--A sugar famine in New South Wales is threatened following the closing down to-day of the Pyrmont works of the Colonial Sugar Refining Co. Ltd., because of the coal shortage. The works use 1200 tons of coal a week, but has used…
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CANBERRA, Friday. -- The shortage of coal supplies, for B.H.P. Newcastle works and other firms in the area had been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →North Coast Coal Not Sufficient For Steam Power Stations
VIEWS of the State Electricity Authority on the possibility of using local coal for steam power generating stations on the Clarence or Richmond River districts were disclosed in a letter to the Clarence River County Council, which met at Grafton…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.--The Coal Industry Tribunal to-day awarded 18,000 miners in Queensland New South Wales, Victoria and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →DEERVALE C.W.A. Blue and Gold Ball
The blue and gold ball organised by members of the local branch of the CWA and held on May 16 in the Deervale hall was an outstanding…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Stocks Low
SYDNEY, Fri.--The secretary of the Combined Colliery Proprietors' Association (Mr. R. W. Davie) said to-night that the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Black And Gold Yamba Ball
The ladies' auxiliary of the Yamba Football Club held a Black and Gold Ball at Yamba. The hall was attractively…
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BROKEN HILL, Fri.--A miner was Billed and another seriously injured to-day when an explosion occurred on the 1200 feet…
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