All Worked Over Week-End Coal Situation Improving in England But no Sign of Weather Breaking
Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 17 February 1947 · page 3
LONDON, Monday: Miners, dockies, seamen and railwaymen, working throughout the week-end, have kept coal rolling across Britain from pits to power stations, The Ministry of Fuel paid tribute to "the magnificent work" of everybody concerned. Railwaymen at the coalfields pushed ahead in…
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Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 19 February 1947 · page 5
TEMORA: The gold strike reported at Sebastopol, near Temora, may prove to be one of the richest in recent…
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Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 20 February 1947 · page 7
TEMORA: Following the discovery of a rich gold reef at Sebastopol, something in the nature of a mild gold rush has…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Power in Midlands by Monday Sunday Work Was Banned by Regional Coal Board
Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 20 February 1947 · page 5
LONDON, Thursday: The Prime Minister Mr. Attlee, announced in the House of Commons, a general resumption of the use of power by industry in the Midlands on Monday next. He added that despite the weather, 3,747,000 to s were produced last week—199,000 above the corresponding week of…
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The Burrowa News · Friday 21 February 1947 · page 1
The gold strike reported at Sebastopool, near Temora, may prove to be one of the richest in recent years…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Great Britain Still in Grip of Icy Winter Coal Crisis Remains Unabated
Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 24 February 1947 · page 3
LONDON, Monday: The Ministry of Fuel last night reported continued anxiety about the effects of the weather on the fuel situation and appealed for greater economies in gas and electricity. Coal savings as a result of the electricity restrictions on February 22 were only 23,790 tons, compared with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Strike Threat
Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 25 February 1947 · page 1
SYDNEY: According to the latest report from the Miners' Federation there seems little hope of averting a general coal…
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The Burrowa News · Friday 28 February 1947 · page 2
The machinery at the Walfram mine at Frogmore has been dismanded and transported away. This marks the end of what was at one…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Helping Miners More Food and Houses
Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 28 February 1947 · page 5
LONDON, Friday: More food and more houses are to be provided for the mining areas to stimulate…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Will There Be a Coal Strike?
Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 3 March 1947 · page 4
SYDNEY: No decision was expected to emerge from the Central Executive's meeting before late to-day or early to-morrow. Primary…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners May Keep on Working Leaders Reported More Hopeful
Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 4 March 1947 · page 3
SYDNEY: The Central Council of the Miners' Federation resumed its conference to-day to decide whether or not a general strike should be recommended to the aggregate meetings to be held on all N.S.W: fields…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →House of Commons Makes Dramatic Intervention Finds Time to Prevent Execution of Gold Coast Natives
Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 4 March 1947 · page 3
LONDON, Tuesday: The House of Commons dramatically intervened to save four Gold Coast native found guily of ritualistic murder on the eve of their execution. The Colonial Secretary, Mr. Creech Jones, yielding to demands from all part of the…
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Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 5 March 1947 · page 5
SYDNEY: Only one mine was working in N.S.W. to-day. This was Ayrfield No. which is not linked up…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Coal Bill Will Relieve State of Authority
Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 6 March 1947 · page 5
SYDNEY: Amendments to the Coal Mines Regulation Bill now before the State Parliament will take away…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Acute Shortage of Coal Railway Depot Stocks Low
Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 14 March 1947 · page 5
Coal stocks at South Goulburn Railway Locomotive Depot have fallen to such a dangerously low level that…
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Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 21 March 1947 · page 1
A woman is working a gold mine at Sebastopol, near Temora. She is Mrs. Jades Haggart,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dust Problem in Mines
Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 21 March 1947 · page 5
Welsh mining expert, Professor T. David Jones, told the Maitland Rotary Club that some Welsh methods of keeping down…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →France States Terms at Conference Wants Coal Proposals Approved Before Any German Unity
Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 21 March 1947 · page 5
MOSCOW, Friday: The French Minister, M. Bidault, informed Foreign Ministers that France would not be a party to any agreement on German economic unity, the level of Germany industry, or reparations unless the Council approved of the French proposal that the German treaty should…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Boorowa's Appeal to Transfer From Group 8 [?] in Group Mine Heard In Sydney To-morrow
The Burrowa News · Friday 21 March 1947 · page 2
Boorowa Rugby Leaguers appeal to the Country Rugby Ler[?]ue for permission to transfer to Group Nine from Group Eight…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Instruction in Mining
Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 25 March 1947 · page 1
Coal mining in Britain is being treated as a scientific and specialised Job. Unlike the old days when boys were sent down coal mines at a very tender age and had to learn the trade by hard experience to-day they receive a thorough course of instruction at a…
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