Wage Rise For Wood, Coal Carters
SYDNEY, Wed.--Wood and coal carters in New South Wales were granted a wage increase of 10 shillings a week from August…
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Mining & the mines, 1948
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Lift All Coal Cuts In N.S.W.
SYDNEY, Fri.--There will be no restrictions on the consumption of New South Wales coal from midnight to-morrow, the…
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SYDNEY, Sun.--The president of the Miners' Federation (Mr. I. Williams) to-night urged miners to maintain full production to…
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EXPRESSING satisfaction at the decision of the Under-Secretary of the Mining Department to recommend that the application for a mining lease on the Yamba beach be refused, officers of the Yamba Development League and Yamba Surf Lifesaving Club…
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CANBERRA, Fri.--The Federal Government has granted the Victorian Government authority to spend an unspecified sum of…
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CANBERRA, Fri.--Mr. Williams (Lab., N.S.W.), in the Address-in-Reply debate in the House of Representatives to-day,…
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CANBERRA, Friday.--"We cannot get too many Polish miners into this country and the Government will not be intimidated by anybody," said the Minister for Immigration (Mr. Calwell) to-day. He was answering Mr. Rankin (C.P., Vic.), who drew…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Surf Club Action Over Beach Mining
In a comment made by organisations about the Mines Minister's refusal to grant a company a permit to mine Yamba beach, no…
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CESSNOCK, Sun.-- The Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) to-day appealed "as a private citizen" to mine workers at Cessnock…
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LONDON, Tues. (A.A.P.).--A National Coal Board announcement says the British, coal industry ended the first half of…
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SYDNEY, Tues.--Early returns from three New South Wales coalfields to-day showed a majority vote in favour of…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.--Should N.S.W. mine workers maintain the present rate of production, including the working of "back"(alternate) Saturdays from…
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Large scale bismuth mining operations have conimenced at Swamp Oak Creek, about nine miles from Tenterfield. It is…
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SYDNEY, Tues.--Gasworks in Sydney and other parts of N.S.W. will be without stocks of suitable coal unless the widespread strikes on the northern…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Jeweller Convicted For Gold Smuggling
SYDNEY, Tuesday.--Thomas Henry Arrowsmith (54), manufacturing jeweller, of Kings Cross, was sentenced, in the Quarter Sessions to-day, to a year and nine months' imprisonment for smuggling gold out of Australia…
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PARIS, Wed. (A. A .P.).-- Gold prices continued to rise on the Paris market yesterday. The French 20 franc gold piece was…
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PARIS, Mon.-- A general strike of most of France's 350,000 coalminers starts to-day. This was announced yesterday…
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SYDNEY, Tues. -- All South Coast mines will be idle to-morrow for the loss of 10,000 tons of coal, while miners decide whether…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners' Leader Hits At U.S. President
CINCINATTI, Wed. (A.A.P.).-- John L. Lewis, President of the 600,000- strong United Mine- workers Union, told the opening…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Oil And Coal Industry In South Africa
JOHANNESBURG. Wed. (A.A.P).-- The Government Intends to grant a licence to Anglo- Transvaal Consolidated Investment Company to establish a £ 15…
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