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Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1947

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Mining Inquiry H. J. Hamling and H. A. Carey

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Monday 15 December 1947 · page 1

Constiuted as a Warden's Court, Mr. H. G. Cobley held an inquiry respecting application by H. J. Hamling and the owner of…

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Viscount Montgomery Goes Down a Coal Mine

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 16 December 1947 · page 1

Field Marshal Lord Montgomery recently visited Thorseby Colliery, near Nottingham, and after talking to some of the miners, went down the mine to inspect the workings. This picture shows: Viscount Montgomery chatting to some of the miners before descending to inspect…

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Female Mine Owner in Court

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 22 December 1947 · page 2

Anne Josephine O'Donnell, mine owner, of Gibsonvale, successfully applied to the Warden (Mr. Finlay, S.M.) at the West Wyalong Warden's Court for a…

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The Steel Behind the Coal

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 23 December 1947 · page 1

Second only to the miners' call for men is the miners' call for steel to build the equipment which will make the miners' work result in a maximum tonnage of coal at the surface, British miners are as good as any; their natural conditions no harder. Yet long befoe the war their…

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Warden Warns Miners

The West Wyalong Advocate · Wednesday 24 December 1947 · page 1

Mr. Finlay, S.M., Mining Warden, at West Wyalong, has warned miners that he will no longer tolerate…

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