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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1951

203 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 8 of 11

Queensland Strike By Miners Likely

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 July 1951 · page 1

BRISBANE. Fri.--A coal-miners' strike in Queensland is likely, following an application by the Owners' Association to…

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Seek Inquiry Into Firing Of Coal Stack

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 July 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday.--A public inquiry into the firing of a 90,000 tons stack of coil at Ravensworth, between…

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Coal Vessel on Mudbank

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 August 1951 · page 1

NEWCASTLE, Wed.--The 3089 ton ship Kooralya, loaded with coal, went aground on a mudbank in Newcastle Harbour…

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Granted Extension Of Mining Rights

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 8 August 1951 · page 2

SYDNEY. Tues.--A private firm has been granted an extension for 10 years for mining on a State coal property at…

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Fox Gold Best For Canterbury

Daily Examiner · Friday 10 August 1951 · page 7

SIDNEY, Thurs.--Winter Handicap winner, Fox Gold, appears one of the best bets of the day in the Flying Handicap at Canterbury on Saturday. HE is handicapped to carry…

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Push Barrow Of Coal To Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 11 August 1951 · page 1

NEW CASTLE, Friday-- The Mayor of Cessnock. Alderman Hallam, to-day threatened to push a wheelbarrow full of…

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No Gold Found In Wrecked Plane

Daily Examiner · Saturday 11 August 1951 · page 3

LAE, Fri., (AAP-Reuter).-- It is now feared that the gold bullion aboard the Drover plane wrecked off Lae recently,…

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Coal Price Rise Came As Shock

Daily Examiner · Monday 13 August 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sun.--No Federal or State Cabinet Minister or Coal Mining Union official in Sydney to-night among those…

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Abandons Search For Salvage Gold

Daily Examiner · Thursday 23 August 1951 · page 1

LAE, Wed. (A.A.P.-Reuter).--Salvage expert J. W. Herd has abandoned the search made on behalf of the Salvage…

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Boy Struck by Piece of Coal

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 29 August 1951 · page 2

An eight-year-old South Grafton boy, Vincent Earle Page, of Through street, was struck on the head by a piece of…

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Not Enough Coal Miners

Daily Examiner · Saturday 1 September 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday--The reason given by Senator Spooner for the coal shortage was what the Miners' Federation had been trying to tell the public for five years, the president of the…

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1000 Pre-Fabs For Coal Areas

Daily Examiner · Saturday 1 September 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY. Fri.--The N.S.W. Minister for Housing, Mr. Kelly, said to-day that 1000 pre-fabricated homes from…

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Miners' Support For Farmers

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 4 September 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday--The Central Executive of the Miners' Federation to-day supported dairy farmers' claims for increased butter prices…

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Coal Output May Be Record

Daily Examiner · Friday 7 September 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thurs.--N.S.W. miners this year will establish a new production record if present output is…

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World Gold Output

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 12 September 1951 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Tuesday, (AAP).--EWorld gold output in 1950 was £303,570,000 sterling compared with…

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Film Entertainment Saraton "King Solomon's Mines"

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 18 September 1951 · page 4

To-night at the Saraton Theatre, the spectacular technicolour production, "King Solomons Mines," will open its season with…

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Talkies Saraton "King Solomon's Mines"

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 19 September 1951 · page 4

To-day and to-night at the Saraton, the spectacular techni-colour production. "King Solomon's Mines," will open its…

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Miners' Leave Lost Penalty For Holding One Day Stoppages

Daily Examiner · Saturday 22 September 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Fri.-- The. Coal Industry Tribunal, Mr. Gallagher, today took three weeks off miners' long service leave as a penalty for holding weekly one day stoppages early this year. However he directed that…

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Transport Drivers In Open Cut Mines

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 25 September 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.--Representatives of mining unions will meet in Sydney to-morrow to discuss the…

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Miners Need Homes

Daily Examiner · Monday 1 October 1951 · page 4

BONN. -- A total of 108,000 new miners' homes are needed in the next two years if West Germany…

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