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

Mining & the mines, 1948

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Gold Forfeited Sold at £13 per oz

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 2 April 1948 · page 1

MELBOURNE: A Sydney manufactoring jeweller was fined £20 in the Fourth District Court to-day and ordered to…

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Alleged Gold Racket

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 5 April 1948 · page 5

SYDNEY: Augustine Desmond Cahill was charged at the Special Federal Court today with having, in August last,, sent 273…

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Ashley on Miners

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 6 April 1948 · page 1

LITHGOW: The Minister for Supply and Shipping, Senator W. P, Ashley, said that if the miners would not discipline their…

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Miners Defy the Court

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 6 April 1948 · page 3

PITTSBURGH Monday: The nation's 400,000 soft coal miners yesterday defied the Federal Court…

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Gold!

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 13 April 1948 · page 3

Messages from Lae, Madang, and other centres state that gold is reported to have been found in an area of the central…

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20 KILLED Mine Explosion In France

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 20 April 1948 · page 3

PARIS, Tuesday: Twenty miners are dead and about 100 injured, 30 of them gravely, in a violent explosion which has…

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Miners' Pensions Who Should Do The Paying?

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 27 April 1948 · page 2

Speaking in the Legislative Assembly on the Bill to increase the rate of pensions to coal miners, Mr. R. S. Vincent (C.P.,…

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Miners Fined

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 28 April 1948 · page 4

NEWCASTLE: Fifteen wheelers who stopped production at Stockrington No. 1. Colliery, on Thursday and Friday were each…

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Ball in Gold and White Room

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 28 April 1948 · page 7

LONDON, Wednesday: In the first function of its kind since the war, 1200 guests danced in the lofty gold and white…

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"New Industry" Old Gold Field To Be Worked As Road Metal Quarry District Councils Interested

The Burrowa News · Friday 30 April 1948 · page 7

In a statement issued at Parliament House yesterday, Mr. F. J. Cahill, M.L.A. for Young, said that plans had now been finalised…

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More Coal From Lithgow

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 7 May 1948 · page 4

SYDNEY: The Government planned to develop the State coalmine at Lithgow into the largest mine in the…

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Autumn Gold Rowans in Rossi-street Beauty of Liquidambars

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 13 May 1948 · page 1

Autumn's here with trailing And her wealth of golden store;…

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Decline in Gold Production

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 19 May 1948 · page 1

Australian gold production during March decreased by 8 per cent, compared with the figures for March 1947, according…

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Home Plans For Miners

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 20 May 1948 · page 1

A scheme to enable thousands of mine-workers to build their their own homes through co-operative building societies,…

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Coal Shortage Will Hit Rugby League

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 20 May 1948 · page 8

Rugby League Clubs throughout the southern districts will suffer financial loss as a result of the serious…

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Serious Coal Position

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 21 May 1948 · page 5

With reserves diminishing rapidly, rationing of coal to industry appears inevitable unless there is a marked increase in…

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Coal Report Awaited

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 21 May 1948 · page 5

The report of the German scientists on the gasification of brown coal and the piping of gas to Melbourne from Gippsland…

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Gold Recovery Only Few Mines Need Assistance

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 27 May 1948 · page 1

No more than three or four gold mines will need Government subsidy to carry on as part of the Commonwealth…

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Mines And Strikes [?]oal Shortage Threatened

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 27 May 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY: Western New [?]th Wales Mining Lodges to-day are considering their [?]citude to the e…

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Another Mine Threat

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 1 June 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY: A strike at nine of the biggest mines on the South Maitland coal fields, which produce 9,500 tons of high grade…

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