Mr. Playford Repudiates Coal Statement By Senator Ashley
Adelaide, April 8.—In a telegram from Perth, where he is conferring with the Victorian and Western Australian Premiers on matters relating to…
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Mining & the mines, 1948
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Mine Accidents
R. Anderson, or the North Mine, was taken to the Hospital and then to his home at 675 Chappie Street, yesterday became of an injured shoulder…
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Sydney, April 9.—Miners' Federation leaders yesterday criticised the Joint Coal Board for announcing its new anti-strike plans without consulting the…
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BARRIER Industrial Council has decided to demand the lead bonus for men engaged by contractors for the cartage of sand, stone, loam or limestone on to mine leases…
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Adelaide, April 11.—The State Premier (Mr. Playferd) left by overland express tonight for Canberra, where he will make urgent representations to the…
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Matters dealt with at a meeting of W.I.U. on Saturday included reports on bath facilities at the old Proprietary Mine changehouse,…
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MELBOURNE. — Travellers who recently arrived from Darwin alleged that there is great smuggling activity there…
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Sydney, April 11.—The General President of the Miners' Federation. Mr. I Williams, said tonight that if the Joint Coal Board persisted in carrying…
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Sydney, April 12.—The Miners' Federation today advised all Federal unions that serious trouble threatened in the coal industry and asked for support in any industrial action taken. The general president of the Miners' Federation (Mr. I…
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A. G. Hern, of the Zinc Corporation, was taken to his home at 582 Blende Street because of a strained back yesterday…
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Melbourne, April 12.—Brown coal produced for Victorian industry from private brown coal mines and the Yallourn North open cut is estimated at…
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NEWCASTLE.—It is now believed that Henry. Wade (27), who lost his life when he was trapped by a fall of 500 tons of rock and…
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SYDNEY.—The Miners' Federation today instructed miners to continue working until a decision is reached on the dispute with the Joint Coal Board. Tomorrow the central executive…
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Yesterday morning V. Lord was injured ai the South Mine. He was taken in the ambulance to the Hospital and then to his home at 153 Eyre Street…
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WASHINGTON, April 13.—The State Department announced yesterday that 31 million dollars (£ A9,700,000) worth bf gold…
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New York, April 12. — The president of the United Mine Workers of America. Mr. John L. Lewis, today called off the month-old soft coal strike by…
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Melbourne, April 13. — The Victorian Cabinet today agreed to the issue of gold mining leases tp North Broken Hill Ltd. at Maldon and St. Arnaud,…
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Sydney, April 13.—Miners' leaders will decide in Sydney tomorrow whether to recommend strike action to the miners on the New South Wales coalfields against the two-fold plan by the Joint Coal Board. The Miners' Federation central…
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SYDNEY.—The mystery of the Northern Territory "gold-running" smugglers" who were reported some weeks ago to have been making night landings on remote unguarded airstrips, has been solved. The "smugglers" were "vitamin…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Jewellery Worth £2,000 And Gold Cup Stolen Thieves Get Away With Big Safe
Melbourne, April 13. — Jewellery valued at £2.000 and a gold cup were in a safe that was taken by a gang of thieves from the Hawthorne home of Dr…
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