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

Mining & the mines, 1949

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Coal Board and Amenities

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 5 October 1949 · page 1

LITHGOW: Emphasising the magnitude of the work involved in Joint Coal Board-Council amenities schemes, the deputy…

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Gold Price Causes Speculation

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 6 October 1949 · page 5

WASHINGTON, Wednesday: The United States Treasury has no information about London report that big international capitalist groups are buying gold at prices up to 42 dollars an…

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Coal Strike in U.s.a

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 6 October 1949 · page 7

WASHINGTON, Wednesday: Coal owners and union leaders have been summoned to Washington to-morrow for…

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Plenty of Bosses for Coal Mines

The Burrowa News · Friday 7 October 1949 · page 2

Appointment of Mr. Baddeley at £50 a week as Director of the State Goal Mines Control Board increases to eight the number of…

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Christmas and Coal

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 17 October 1949 · page 7

SYDNEY: The Joint Coal Board has summoned a conference of mine owners and representatives of the miners, to be…

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Mines Idle

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 19 October 1949 · page 5

SYDNEY: Two mines were partly idle and three idle on the Sharkey issue to-day, for the loss of 900 tons of coal…

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Coal Strike Threat

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 25 October 1949 · page 5

SYDNEY: Unless the specially convened conference called for the settlement of the Elrington dispute finds agreement, the…

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Coal Machine Display At Cessnock

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 28 October 1949 · page 3

A highlight of Back-to Cessnock week which begins on Saturday will be the display by the Joint Coal Board in Main…

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Mine Host

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 31 October 1949 · page 2

David McNicoll, Daily Telegraph columnist stayed in Yass on his way to the Melbourne Cup and gave…

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Night Shift Goes On Open Cut Mines

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 2 November 1949 · page 4

SYDNEY: The chairman of the Central Coal Reference Board, Mr. F. H. Gallagher, to-day ordered a discontinuance…

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Six Jam Tins Full Of Gold

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 2 November 1949 · page 1

DARWIN: Veteran miner, Mr. C. H. Chapman, quietly handed over to the bank in Alice Springs recently no less than…

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Coal Board Wants Uni. Graduates

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 3 November 1949 · page 1

The secretary of the Joint Coal Board Mr. N. Stuart, state dthis week that the Board is seeking university…

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Many Czechs Arrested for Mines

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 8 November 1949 · page 8

LONDON, Monday: Western diplomats in Vienna, quoted by the British United Press, said that the Czech Minister for the…

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Mine Closed Down

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 10 November 1949 · page 4

SYDNEY: The Joint Coal Board yesterday authorised the owners of Stockrington No. 2 colliery to close it down until…

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Gold—then Came the Bushrangers Araluen And Nerrigundah Fields Opened Up

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 10 November 1949 · page 4

Braidwood and Moruya districts did not always live in the security and peace which they know to-day. A century ago they were, in common with many other parts of the state, the centre of the feverish activity of the gold digger and the depredations of the bushranger…

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Mine Worker Killed

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 14 November 1949 · page 7

SYDNEY: A 75-year-old mine worker was crushed to death between a mechanical tipping device and a coal skip at…

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Dollar and Gold U.S. Expert On The Price

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 14 November 1949 · page 7

WASHINGTON, Sunday: A Government banking expert yesterday strongly opposed any move to devalue…

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Bushrangers and Gold Jingera Hideout Did Not Save Bandits

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 14 November 1949 · page 4

Gold buyers plied regularly between Moruya and the Gulf diggings while the hectic gold era continued. They porved a strong attraction for the lawless elements who falsely calculated on securing easy money from them…

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Blue & Gold Ball At Tarago

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 17 November 1949 · page 1

Next Saturday night the stage will be set for the fourth annual Blue and Gold Ball. The Belle of the Ball…

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Two Officials Die in Mine From Black Damp

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 17 November 1949 · page 5

CESSNOCK: Two officials in the Millfield-Great Colliery were overcome by black damp gas and died While inspecting the mine They are Raymond John Lane, 35, manager, Congewai Road, Aberdare, and James Wilson, 34, miners' deputy, Bennet Street, Millfield…

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