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Mining & the mines, 1951

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Workers Given Homes If They Enter Coal Mines "Bribe," Says Southern Miners' Leader

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 23 August 1951 · page 12

Housing Commission homes are being allotted to labourers from other parts of the State on condition they enter into the coal mining industry on the South Coast, according to Mr. W. Parkinson, Southern District President of the Miners' Federation…

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New Colliery Road

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 23 August 1951 · page 1

Construction has been commenced on the new access road between the Metropolitan Colliery and the Helensburgh…

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Coal Production Increases

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 23 August 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday. — New South Wales miners produced 7,880,001 tons of coal this year up to last Friday; 137,071 tons…

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Cochran Answers Miners on Housing

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 23 August 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Joint Coal Board was anxious and ready to deal with any individual in the coalmining industry who had a housing problem, the Chairman of the…

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Mines' Soccer [?] K.o. Final [?]

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 23 August 1951 · page 28

The final of the M[?] competition between [?] and Old Bulli, played [?] paddock last Sunday [?]…

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Miners' Soccer Comp. Must Be Improved

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 23 August 1951 · page 11

The arrangement of the miners' K.O. competition for 1952 must be changed completely if it is to be more…

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Mines Minister To Visit South Coast

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 23 August 1951 · page 5

The Minister for Mines (Mr. J. Arthur) and a large delegation of members of the Parliamentary Mining Committee will…

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Manager's Evidence of Dispute at Colliery

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 24 August 1951 · page 7

SYDNEY, Thursday.—The manager of Steelworks Colliery on the Western Field said today that one of four recently…

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Corrimal Miners 1st. Annual Picnic

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 27 August 1951 · page 10

Corrimal Miners' Lodge will hold its first annual picnic next month. A total of 400 miners, men on…

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Miners Protest on Butter

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 28 August 1951 · page 1

Miners at South Clifton colliery stopped work yesterday in protest against the butter shortage. The stoppage caused a loss of…

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Transport Services Can Not Carry Coal Output

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 29 August 1951 · page 3

The Minister for Mines (Mr. J. Arthur) said in Wollongong yesterday that New South Wales miners were producing more…

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Now They're Mining Coal By Radio!

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 30 August 1951 · page 2

Mining coal with radios. Johnny Miner's grandfather wouldn't have believed it. Yet they're doing it at Nebo, Australia's most modern colliery…

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"Neb Colliery is a Great Eye Opener"—Says Minister

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 30 August 1951 · page 1

"Nebo Colliery is unquestionably a great eye-opener," said Capt. G. Arthur Minister for Mines at Wollongong on Tuesday. The Minister was speaking at…

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New Trainer for Fox Gold

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Saturday 1 September 1951 · page 13

SYDNEY, Friday.—Fox Gold, which has been well supported for the Epsom, has had a change of trainers…

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Insufficient Labour Cause of Coal Lack

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Saturday 1 September 1951 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday.—Reason given by Senator Spooner for the coal shortage was what the Miners' Federation had been…

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Colliery Conference

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 3 September 1951 · page 15

An agreement was reached at a conference on Friday between Corrimal miners lodge officials, the management, Southern…

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Housing for Miners

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 3 September 1951 · page 6

The Southern District Board of Management of the Miners' Federation has decided to accept an assurance by the Joint…

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Experts Explain Modern Coal Winning

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Monday 3 September 1951 · page 6

Prior to the introduction of mechanical loading machines, locomotives etc. to the coal mines by far the greater…

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Mine Cage Crashed Down Shaft

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 5 September 1951 · page 3

NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.—A cage carrying four skips of coal crashed to the shaft bottom of Stockton Borehole colliery…

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South Bulli Miners Protest On Butter Shortage

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 12 September 1951 · page 1

Miners at South Bulli stopped work yesterday in protest against the shortage of butter. They carried resolutions…

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