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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1954

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Gold Smugglers

Daily Examiner · Friday 1 January 1954 · page 4

COLOMBO. -- International gold and currency smugglers are now operating on a big scale from…

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Oppose Disposal Of Colliery

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 13 January 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tues. --A special meeting of district executives of the Miners' Federation Will be held on…

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Miners To Meet Coal Board Chief

Daily Examiner · Thursday 14 January 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday. -- Officials of the Miners' Federation will meet the Chairman of the Joint Coal Board (Mr. S. F. Cochran), on Thursday to discuss…

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BOWLS : McKENZIE and Hobbs Hold Gold Feathers

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 15 January 1954 · page 3

Last weekend, the weather being nearly perfect, saw a good number of bowlers ready to do battle with each other. Visiting bowlers being, Cecil Gray of the Nowra Club, Jim McFarland of the Walcha…

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Australia Has Big Coal Need

Daily Examiner · Saturday 16 January 1954 · page 1

CANBERRA, Fri.--Australia must mine at least 70 million tons of coal a year--four time her…

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Attempt To Halt Fire In Mine

Daily Examiner · Monday 18 January 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday. -- Another seal is being built in an attempt to halt a fire in the State Coal Mine at Lithgow. The Minister for Mines, Mr. P…

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Wastage Of Coal

Daily Examiner · Thursday 21 January 1954 · page 1

CANBERRA, Wed.--Australia wasted 95 per cent. of its coal--the most important source of the country's…

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Premier Agrees With Sale Of Colliery

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 26 January 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.--The Premier (Mr. Cahill) has written to the Miners' Federation expressing…

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Urunga to Yamba More Attractive Than the "Gold Coast"

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 5 February 1954 · page 1

"The lovely seaboard area stretching from Urunga north to Yamba has more entrancing scenery, better and safer beaches, and more attractions in the making, than the famous 'Gold Coast' section of the much-publicised South Coast…

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Further Order For N.S.W. Coal

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 9 February 1954 · page 4

SYDNEY, Monday.-- A further order for an additional 120,000 tons of New South Wales coal has been…

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Oppose Efforts To Mine Yamba Beach

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 10 February 1954 · page 4

Yamba Urban Area Committee will strongly oppose any proposals to mine for minerals on the…

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Left Wing Again Controls Miners

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 17 February 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY,, Tues.--Mr. W. Parkinson, Southern District president, was to-day elected vice-president of the…

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Joint Coal Board Engineer Resigns

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 17 February 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tues.-- The Chief Engineer of the Joint Coal Board, Mr. W. A. Shoebridge, to-day tendered…

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Coal Exports

Daily Examiner · Thursday 18 February 1954 · page 6

LONDON, Wed. -- The British Minister of Fuel, Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd, said that everything was being done…

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Because You're Mine

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 19 February 1954 · page 1

Mario Lanza proves himself equally at ease in the uniform of a U.S.A. private as in the Caruso saga, and is an…

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Mew's Basketball Gold-diggers Put Up Mew Record Score

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 19 February 1954 · page 10

When Gold-diggers defeated Officials in the men's basketball competition on Tuesday night they put up a new record score…

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Power Station Coal Warning

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 9 March 1954 · page 6

A warning about the need for a greater supply of coal from Nymboida mine was given by the N.R.C.C. County Clerk, Mr. C. M. Seymour, in his budget for 1954…

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Coal Firm's Donation to Flood Aid

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 9 March 1954 · page 6

A cheque for £105 for flood relief distribution on the North Coast has been received by the…

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Sighted Mine

Daily Examiner · Thursday 11 March 1954 · page 1

LONDON. Wed.--The giant trans-Atlantic liners, Queen Elizabeth and the United States, were…

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To Smash Gold Smuggling Ring

Daily Examiner · Friday 12 March 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday. -- Customs officers who caught a Chinese last night with a two pound lump of gold, have begun an investigation to smash a gold…

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