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

Mining & the mines, 1945

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Bunnerong Coal Enough for Five Days

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 25 June 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY: During the week end several thousand tons of coal were delivered to Bunnerong Power House and stocks…

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A Little More Coal for Gas Company

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 26 June 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY: Although the Australian Gaslight Company had only sufficient coal on hand to meet three days' bare needs, the…

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No Profit on Coal

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 10 July 1945 · page 3

ADELAIDE: No N.S.W. coat mine is making a profit, the Coal Commissioner, Mr. Mighell, is reported to have said to the South…

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From EVERYWHERE Nine Mines Idle

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 10 July 1945 · page 2

Nine mines are idle in N.S.W. to-day and the loss will be over 9000 tons. Army Oischarges…

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Try One of Mine

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 11 July 1945 · page 3

In Jersey City, when jury members at a murder trial politely reminded the judge that they were low on smokes, the prosecution dug up…

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FOOTBALL Weissel Gold Cup Cowra Defeat Harden Murrumburrah

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 12 July 1945 · page 1

In the first match for the Eric Weissel Gold Cup on Sunday last, Cowra, was succsssful in taking it back, home…

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Patriotic and War Fund “Gold Star” Art Union Mayor Appeals for Increased Sales

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 16 July 1945 · page 3

At the meeting of the Yass and District Patriotic and War Fund Committee on .Friday night, the Mayor (Ald. W. L…

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Fatal Coal Fire in Closed Room

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 25 July 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY: Following the submission of a medical report, the police are now satisfied that carbon monoxide fumes from a…

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Fatality at Mine Fell 30 Feet

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 6 August 1945 · page 3

About 1.30 on Friday, A. Ferguson, married, of Oakvale, Captain's Flat, sustained injuries which later proved fatal, while…

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25 Mines Idle Coal Loss 25,000 Tons a Day

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 13 August 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY: The resumption of the strike involving mining deputies to-day laid idle 25 collieries on the South Maitland coalfields,…

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Underground Strike Miners Want Better Bath-Room

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 20 August 1945 · page 3

NEWCASTLE: Fifty employees of the Northern Colliery began a stay-in strike this morning in order to enforce a demand for improved…

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From EVERYWHERE Coal Nationalisation

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 22 August 1945 · page 2

The chairman of the Coal Inquiry said yesterday that the coal industry looked like, a bad investment and he could not see why the…

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6 Mines Idle Over Bath House

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 22 August 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY: Approximately 1000 men are now idle on the northern field in sympathy with the 30 stayin strikers at Rhondda Colliery…

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Railway Services to Be Cut Owing to Coal Shortage

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 22 August 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY: Railway services in N.S.W. are to be reduced owing to serious shortages in coal stocks, the Commissioner for Railways, Mr. Hartigan, announced to-day. The reduction in goods services…

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Football Weissel Gold Cup

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 23 August 1945 · page 3

Harden--Murrumburrah defeated June on Sunday last by 10 points to 4. For the winners Miller and Dunn scored tries and Kinnane and…

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Singapore Mines Must Be Cleared

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 24 August 1945 · page 3

LONDON, Friday: It will not be possible to move tens of thousands of Allied prisoners in Singapore and…

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10 Mines Idle

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 27 August 1945 · page 1

SYDNEY: Three thousand miners are on strike in N.S.W. as the National Convention meets to discuss post-war problems…

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Miners Lack Sincerity, Says Coal Commissioner Mighell

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 30 August 1945 · page 3

"The public, who will suffer inconvenience and hardship because of the coal shortage, should know the reasons for the idleness of two mines to-day, as they are typical of so many excuses for various stoppages in recent weeks," said the…

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Train Services Cut Result of Coal Shortage

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 30 August 1945 · page 5

Owing to the coal shortage, drastic cuts in country railway services come into operation next Sunday…

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Miners' Convention Agrees on No-Strike Policy

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 4 September 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY: The Miners' Convention yesterday decided that there should be a departure from the use of the strike weapon, and that the miners should serve on colliery proprietors claims to be covered by a national agreement…

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