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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1948

253 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 8 of 13

Gold Valley Atones Big Bets Landed In Cup Win

Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 July 1948 · page 5

Regarded as the unlucky horse of the C.R.J.C. carnival last week, the Newcastle representative, Gold Valley, made amends yesterday by winning the South Grafton…

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Uranium Mines Worked With P.O.W.

Daily Examiner · Friday 23 July 1948 · page 1

HEIDELBERG, Thurs. (A.A.P.) --Russia has completely taken over large areas of Sudetenland, where new veins of uramium ore…

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Consider Action On Coal Board's Decision

Daily Examiner · Saturday 24 July 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Fri.--Miners leaders to-day decided to call a special meeting of their central council in Sydney next Tuesday to…

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Miners May Hold Protest Meeting

Daily Examiner · Monday 26 July 1948 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sun.-- Aggregate meetings of coal miners be called as a protest against the decision of the Joint Coal Board…

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Miners' Policy Against Decision Of Coal Board

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 27 July 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.--All mining unions covering 23,000 mineworkers on the Australian coalfields, have agreed on a…

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Miners Will Decide On Action

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 28 July 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tues.--The outcome of the sitting of the Coal Industry Tribunal in . Sydney to-morrow will decide whether…

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14 Miners Killed

Daily Examiner · Thursday 29 July 1948 · page 3

PRINCETON (Indiana), Wed. (A.A.P.).--At least 14 miners were killed in an explosion in King's Mine yesterday. The blast…

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Miners Need Leadership

Daily Examiner · Thursday 29 July 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed.--(Mr. McGirr) told the State Parliamentary Labour Party to-day that he had informed the miners' leaders that the time had come…

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Mild Gold Rush

Daily Examiner · Thursday 29 July 1948 · page 3

TAMWORTH, Wed.--There has been a mild rush to Nundle where a rich gold reef was d[?] a week ago by Alexander…

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Huge Plan for Coal Development

Daily Examiner · Thursday 29 July 1948 · page 1

LITHGOW, Wednesday.--One of the most closely-guarded Government secrets has been exposed after three months' private investigations and confirmed to-day by a premature advertisement issued to the Press by the Commonwealth…

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Gold Valley Wins South Grafton Cup

Daily Examiner · Thursday 29 July 1948 · page 5

Gold Valley (R. Watterson) winning the South Grafton Cup from Brown Cavallo and Parallel…

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Will Decide On Coal Stoppage

Daily Examiner · Friday 30 July 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thurs.--Miners' leaders will confer to-morrow before they decided on what day stop-work meetings will be…

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Miners Defy No Strike Order

Daily Examiner · Monday 2 August 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday.--All coal mines In New South Wales will be idle next Thursday. Stop-work meetings will be held on all coalfields in accordance with an instruction from the Central Executive of the Miners' Federation to consider a recommendation for…

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Behind Scene Moves To Avert Coal Crisis

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 3 August 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.--Behind-the-scene moves are now going on to try to avert the crisis that is developing over the action of the Joint Coal Board in seeking to impose strike penalties in the Miners' Award…

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Miners Threaten Law And Order

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 4 August 1948 · page 2

THE coal miners apparently now consider they have manoeuvred the supply position to such an extent that rather than see industry paralysed due to strikes and great domestic distress throughout Australia, the Federal and State Governments will…

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Miners Have Case to Answer

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 4 August 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tues.--The Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. F. H. Gallagher) to-day ruled that the Miners' Federation had a case to answer on the holiday pay dispute…

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Settlement Of NSW Coal Dispute

Daily Examiner · Thursday 5 August 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed.--After hearing the terms of the settlement in the coal crisis the Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. Gallagher) to-day adjourned indefinitely the hearing of the Joint Coal Board's application for tighter conditions for miners' holiday pay as…

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Coal To Move Wheat Crop

Daily Examiner · Thursday 5 August 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed.--The allocation of coal to enable the railways to move 550,000,000 bushels of last season's wheat to the coast will…

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Dorrigo Man Inspects Coal Mine the John Darling Mine at Broken Hill Problems Difficult to Solve

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 6 August 1948 · page 3

In these days of coal and power problems it can be definitely stated that the management of our mines is in expert hands and a very high…

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U.k. Coal Export

Daily Examiner · Friday 6 August 1948 · page 3

LONDON, Thurs. (A.A.P.).--Official figures reveal that Britain's coal exports, including bunkers for the first 29 weeks of…

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