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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1950

202 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 5 of 11

Owners Criticise Coal Board

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 12 April 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tues.--Coal owners to-day made a strong attack on the Joint Coal Board, which controls the coal industry in New South Wales…

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Coal Board Not Defeatist

Daily Examiner · Thursday 13 April 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed.--Chairman of the Joint Coal Board (Mr. K. A. Cameron) to-day denied that the Board had adopted a…

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Decision By Coal Tribunial

Daily Examiner · Thursday 13 April 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed.--The Coal Industry Tribunal, Mr. F. H. Gallagher, to-morrow morning will deliver two important…

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Miners Meet On New Ruling

Daily Examiner · Friday 14 April 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thurs.-- The Miners' Federation is expected to consider general strike action if coal owners attempt to mechanically extract pillar coal from mines…

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Churchman Gripped By Gold Fever

Daily Examiner · Friday 14 April 1950 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Thurs. -- Wedderburn's Presbyterian Minister has been grinned by the town's gold fever, and he has begun to…

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Miners To Resist Move On Pillar Coal

Daily Examiner · Saturday 15 April 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Fri.--Miners' leaders to-day made plans to prevent coalowners from using machines to extract pillar coal from underground mines in three States…

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Welsh Miners' New Industry

Daily Examiner · Saturday 15 April 1950 · page 3

A new and thriving factory in the Rhonda Valley in South Wales is producing more hand woven ties for export than any other single firm in Britain. More than 90 per cent. of the weavers employed in the factory are exminers who are…

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'Flat Out' In Search For Gold

Daily Examiner · Saturday 15 April 1950 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Fri.--Mr. Dave Butterick, owner of the "Golden Paddock" in Wedderburn, Victoria, said to-day that…

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May Have Stumbled on Gold-smuggling Ring

Daily Examiner · Saturday 15 April 1950 · page 4

ANTWERP, Friday (AAP).--Customs officials who yesterday found gold worth £107,000 sterling hidden in a cooking fat cargo…

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Gold Find at Carr's Creek

Daily Examiner · Monday 17 April 1950 · page 2

Mr. Stephen Adrian, of Carr's Creek, found a nice piece of gold last week. The gold was flat and circular,…

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Threat Of Winter Coal Shortages

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 18 April 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.--general industry and essential services in New South Wales face an acute coal shortage this winter. JOINT Coal Board figures…

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India Sees Market for Coal Here

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 18 April 1950 · page 1

BRISBANE, Mon.--India is looking to Australia as an ever[?]increasing market for its ample coal supplies, the manager of…

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May Introduce Miners' Code

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 19 April 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday.--A miners' disciplinary code to abolish "irresponsible stoppages" may be reintroduced on the Northern New South Wales coalfields…

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Pillar Coal Issue

Daily Examiner · Thursday 20 April 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed.--A move for a general stoppage of all northern N.S.W. mines one day a week as a protest over the pillar…

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Prospects For Coal

Daily Examiner · Friday 21 April 1950 · page 2

THE heavy demand for light and power accompanying colder weather has brought with it the blight of electricity…

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Black Sand Mining Should Benefit Iluka

Daily Examiner · Friday 21 April 1950 · page 5

The township of Iluka should receive a considerable boost in the near future if plans for the floating of a large company for…

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Complaint On Coal Subsidy

Daily Examiner · Monday 24 April 1950 · page 3

BRISBANE, Sun.--The Minister for Mines (Mr. Moore) claimed to-day the Federal Government was discriminating…

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Replies to Criticism on Coal Development

Daily Examiner · Monday 24 April 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sun.--"Mr. Wentworth's statement that the State Government has sabotaged coal production is absurd and can…

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Next Two Weeks Crucial Coal Period

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 25 April 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday.--New South Wales faces its most crucial coal production period during the next two weeks. THERE will be only eight…

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George Medal for Mine Hero

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 26 April 1950 · page 4

LONDON, Tues. (AAP).--Arthur Be[?]nard Anstey, foreman at the Mount Morgan Mine, Queensland, has been…

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