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

Mining & the mines, 1951

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Coal Stocks Lower

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 5 January 1951 · page 6

Victorian industry again enters a new year on a "hand-to-mouth" basis for its coal. The State ended 1950 with…

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Bathurst Gold Rush Recalled

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 9 January 1951 · page 2

Edward Hammond Hargraves, who had a sheep holding on the Bathurst Plains, went to California in search of gold in…

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Miners Threaten Strike Action Over Glen Davis

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 9 January 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY: Western district miners threaten to strike next week as a protest against the Commonwealth's decision to close down Glen Davis shale oil plant…

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Mrs. Miners Honoured

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 10 January 1951 · page 6

After having been pianiste for functions at the Eastgrove Hall over a period of 25 years, Mrs. A. Miners received a vey nice…

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Gold, Dollar Increase for Britain

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 11 January 1951 · page 3

LONDON, Thursday: The gold and dollar reserves of Britain and the sterling area increased by 544 million…

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The Miners Again

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 16 January 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY: Spontaneous strikes broke out on northern coalfields to-day, as a result of which 16 mines are idle for a loss of…

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80 Mines Idle

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 17 January 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY: Eighty mines to- day were idle, causing a production loss of 43,000 tons of coal…

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Miners Spend Holidays At C.M.F. Training Camp

Boorowa News · Saturday 20 January 1951 · page 1

Members of the 12-16 Hunter River Lancers—A C.M.F. unit aboard a [?] armored car during a training exercise. Many members of this unit are miners at muswellbrook (N.S.W.), who spend their…

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Coal Strikes

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 23 January 1951 · page 2

SYDNEY: The Miners' Central Council to-day adopted recommendations for weekly one-day stoppages…

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From Everywhere Good As Gold

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 23 January 1951 · page 2

Good As Gold. In Denver (U.S.A.). Prospector Everett B. Gardner returned a 200-lb. pewter statue which he found on a gold-hunting…

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'Lust For Gold' At Hoyts Ritz

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 24 January 1951 · page 2

"Lust for Gold", Columbia's romance of a man who had discivered a 20 million dollar gold mine, and will stop at nothing…

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Hits Miners

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 25 January 1951 · page 1

The Coal Industry Tribunal. Mr. F. Gallagher, said last night that coal miners were "trying to ruin…

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Britain's Plan To Cheapen Coal

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 31 January 1951 · page 3

A £635,000,000 plan to increase British coal output and reduce costs has been proposed by the National…

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Coal Crisis Motion Lost

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 2 February 1951 · page 3

LONDON, Fri.: The Conservative motion on Britain's coal crisis was defeated in the House of Commons yesterday by a 300…

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Army Units Are Ready to Work on Coal

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 5 February 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY: Special Army units have been ordered to be ready to move into coalfields in New South Wales at short notice. Machines for working open…

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Dr. Evatt Defends Miners' Leaders

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 8 February 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY: The Deputy Leader of the Opposition, Dr. H. V. Evatt, to-day appeared before the Full Arbitration Court as senior counsel for the three members of the central executive of the…

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Miners Respond

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 12 February 1951 · page 6

LONDON Miners at about 700 pits out of posible 835 in the U. K. have keen working voluntary Saturday shift in…

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"Purer" Coal

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 12 February 1951 · page 3

LONDON: A new machine which will entirely remove foreign materials from house-hold coal has been perfected. It…

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Owners Boycott Coal Conference

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 15 February 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY: The coal owners boycotted a conference in Sydney to-day and dashed hopes of an early settlement of the miners dispute. The refusal of the coal…

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Mine Owners Blamed

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 16 February 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY: The mine-owners' refusal to attend the coal talks has complicated moves for the settlement of the dispute, the…

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