Britain's First Gold Medal Of The 1952 Olympics Jeanette Altwegg Wirs Figure Skating Title
The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 9 May 1952 · page 8
Miss Jeanette Altwegg, 21-year-old World, European and British champion, gained Britain's first &old Medal in the sixth Winter Olympic Games at Oslo by winning the women's figure skating title. She won…
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Daily Examiner · Thursday 15 May 1952 · page 2
A recent visitor to Grafton was Mr. R. G. (Gwydir Whalan, the Chief Inspector of Mines for New South…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners' President Ill
Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 May 1952 · page 3
SYDNEY, Tues--The General President of the Miners' Federation (Mr. I Williams) was told to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Power House Strike-- Mines Idle
Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 May 1952 · page 1
SYDNEY, Wed.--A strike at Lithgow power house today threw 33 western mines idle, and caused a coal loss…
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Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 May 1952 · page 6
SYDNEY, Wed.--The stremendous influence the increased for wool had on the Australian…
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Daily Examiner · Saturday 24 May 1952 · page 1
LITHGOW. Fri. -- The Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. Gallagher) to-day vailed a compulsory…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gold Coast Champions
Daily Examiner · Saturday 24 May 1952 · page 5
Roy Ankrah, of the Gold Coast, the British Empire featherweight boxing champion, likes to give training hints to young boxing enthusiasts in his home town of Accra anxious to follow in his footsteps…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Reserves At High Point
Daily Examiner · Saturday 24 May 1952 · page 1
SYDNEY, Fri.--Coal reserves in New South Wales are at their highest point since the war…
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Daily Examiner · Saturday 24 May 1952 · page 1
SYDNEY, Fri.--The Central Executive. of the Miners Federation to-day took steps to oppose…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mine Foreman Injured
Daily Examiner · Wednesday 28 May 1952 · page 3
Abrasions to the scalp, probable slight concussion, and injury to the right shoulder blade, was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Shale Miners Begin Stay-In Strike
Daily Examiner · Wednesday 4 June 1952 · page 1
GLEN DAVIS, Tuesday-- Fifty Glen Davis shale miners have begun a stay-in strike in an effort to prevent the shale oil plant from being dismantled…
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Daily Examiner · Thursday 5 June 1952 · page 3
GLEN DAVIS, Wednesday-- The 52 "stay-down" shale miners are in good spirits and determined to win their fight against the Federal Government, the Secretary of the Glen…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Retain Gold Pass
Daily Examiner · Friday 6 June 1952 · page 1
CANBERRA, Thurs.--The Minister for the Interior (Mr. Kent Hughes) said today that members of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →High Award for Boy Scout The Bronze Cross, the highest Scout award, was recently awarded to Constable John Kwasi Oppong, of the Gold Coast Police Force and a members of the Senchi Methodist Scout Troop
Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 6 June 1952 · page 8
He rescued three boys from the crocodile infested Volt a River. This was the first occasion on which such a presentation was made on the Gold Coast. Constable Oppong was also awarded the Bronze Meda lot the Royal Humane Society. He is shown…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Glen Davis Men Still Down Mine
Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 June 1952 · page 4
GLEN DAVIS, Friday.-- Glen Davis miners to-day completed the fourth day of their stay-down strike in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Chinese Vessel Strikes Mine
Daily Examiner · Tuesday 10 June 1952 · page 1
HONG KONG, Mon.--The Chinese vessel, New China. I struck a mine in the4 Pearl River estuary and sank on…
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Daily Examiner · Wednesday 11 June 1952 · page 3
CANBERRA, Tues.--With two months' figures still outstanding, latest returns of coal production for…
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Daily Examiner · Friday 13 June 1952 · page 3
SYDNEY, Thurs.--More than 400 British migrants will come to Australia before the end of this year to take…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Protest Meetings Mean Coal Loss
Daily Examiner · Wednesday 18 June 1952 · page 3
SYDNEY, Tuesday.--New South Wales coal miners will hold aggregate meetings on all fields tomorrow and on Thursday, to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ship Leaves Macleay Coal Cargo Not Unloaded
Daily Examiner · Saturday 21 June 1952 · page 1
SYDNEY, Friday.--The North Coast Steam Navigation Company's vessel, the Arakoon, today left the Macleay River for Sydney carrying 100 tons of coal which watersiders refuse…
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