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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1942

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Coal Stoppages

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 24 August 1942 · page 3

CANBERRA, Monday: Stoppage at three collieries. may involve further prosecutions under the Coal Regulations. The mines concerned are South…

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Keira Miners

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 25 August 1942 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Summonses were issued yesterday against seven miners at Mt. Keira, ordering them to appear in the Arbitration Court…

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Two Mines Idle

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 26 August 1942 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday: South Bulli and Excelsior collieries on the South Coast were the only mines idle on the N.S.W. coalfields to-day…

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All Mines Working

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 27 August 1942 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday: For the first time this year all mines throughout the State were working to-day. A resumption at South Bulli to-day…

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Miners Fined Keira Trouble Sequel

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 27 August 1942 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday: Fines of £5 were imposed on five employees of the Mt. Keira colliery and £10 on two other employees,…

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"Protest" Strike Clifton Miners

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 28 August 1942 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday: As a protest against the penalties imposed by Judge Drake-Brockman yesterday on Mt. Keira strikers, South Clifton…

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Miners' Record Coal Production

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 2 September 1942 · page 3

Coal production in New South Wales for the fortnight ended August 22 was a record, said the Coal Commissioner (Mr. Mighell)…

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All Mines Working

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 3 September 1942 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday: All coal mines in N.S.W. with the exception of Duckinfield, where there was a mechanical breakdown, were…

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Local Mining. (Contributed)

The Burrowa News · Friday 4 September 1942 · page 2

Although Boorowa has long since felt the sinister and even tragic effects of this terrible war, it is only now that there…

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Mining Prospects in Burrowa District

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 7 September 1942 · page 2

Burrowa was for long in the lime known producers as the Kangiara, light as a mining centre, such well-frogmore Rye Park and the…

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Mine Idle in South

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 8 September 1942 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday: The Excelsior mine, which was idle yesterday, resumed to-day. Another stop-work meeting resulted in Coalcliff, which…

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Four Mines Idle

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 9 September 1942 · page 3

SYIDNEY, Wednesday: About 3300 tons of coal will be lost to-day as a result of stoppages at four New South Wales mines…

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Mine Idle

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 11 September 1942 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday: Aberdare colliery on the northern field was the only one idle to-day over industrial disputes. Pelton Mine, where the men held a…

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18th Coal Strike

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 14 September 1942 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday: The 18th strike since the Coal Control Provisions were brought n occurred to-day on the northern fields. The second…

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Miners Warned

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 15 September 1942 · page 2

LONDON, Monday: The Minister for Labour, Mr. Bevin, has issued and order making it an offence for a miner to stay away from work…

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Burrowa and Mining

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 15 September 1942 · page 2

Burrowa was for long in the limelight as a mining centre, such well-known producers as the Kangiara, Frogmore, Rye Park and the Phoenix…

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Three Mines Idle

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 18 September 1942 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday: Three mines in the State were idle to-day. The mines at Elrington, in the north, employing 300 men, ceased pork on account of…

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In Britain's Tin Mines

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 18 September 1942 · page 3

Tin mining is Britain's oldest metal industry, and prior to the opening of the Malayan mines, Cornwall was the world's main source of tin. Now Britain turns once more to Cornwall for supplies of this metal, vital to her war industries. Here the tin-ore recovered in granite strata at deep levels of from 1700 to 1800 feet is blasted out of the solid rock.—Department of…

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Two Mines Idle

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 21 September 1942 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday: Employees, at the Rondda coal mine, on the northern field, were to-day absent from the pit as a tribute to the memory…

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Miners and Tobacco

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 22 September 1942 · page 2

CANBERRA, Tuesday: A sub-committee will carry out investigations into the complaint of Lithgow miners that tobacco rations have been…

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