Coal Strike Ended Gas and Electricity Restrictions Lifted Trains Return to Normal Timetable
The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 9 November 1948 · page 1
A SETTLEMENT of the N.S.W. coal strike has been reached. As a result, all gas and electricity restrictions are to be lifted immediately, it was announced yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →We've "Had" the Miners' Federation
The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 11 November 1948 · page 2
During the week Australia has had its periodical dose of Red job-control, with the customary bradship to the innocent third…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Broken Hill Miners' High Wages (By Wire) Sydney
The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 11 November 1948 · page 1
A message from Broken Hill states: The lowest paid labourer working at Broken Hill silver mines will receive an income of £37/12/ a fortnight…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Plan to Overcome Open Mine Menance
The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 15 November 1948 · page 2
After years of agitation, there is a possibility that dangerous open mine shafts at West Wyalong, may be made safe in the near future…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mine Owner Wants Pistol Back
The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 2 December 1948 · page 5
John Hughes Gibson, founder of the Gibsonvale Tin Field, which bears his name, has had his pistol…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Projected Expansion of the Broula King Mining Syndicate Gold Bearing Rock at Cowra
The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Monday 6 December 1948 · page 1
The Broula King mining syndicate will shortly reform into a public company to moro adequately work the mineral lease at Cowra and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →More Than 10,000 Miners at First Wyalong Funeral; Circus Band Played March
The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 9 December 1948 · page 1
In 1894, more than 10,000 miners downed tools and attended the funeral of Andreas Matheson, the first person to die on the famous Wyalong Goldfields. A…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →First Payable Gold Erection of Tablet Suggested
The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 14 December 1948 · page 8
Mr. Artie Foster, one of the best local authorities on gold-mining, has made the suggestion to this paper that a tablet to mark the spot where the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Gold Yield Dropping
The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 23 December 1948 · page 6
Declining gold production, after a small post-war revival Is curtailing the dollar-earning capacity of this Australian industry…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Lawyers Agree on Mining Point
The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 23 December 1948 · page 1
Solicitors H. J. Englert and D. E. Mackenzie, after a "round table" conference yesterday at the West…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Farmer Will Try Hand at Mining
The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 23 December 1948 · page 1
James Cattle, retired farmer and crazier, of West Wyalong, successfully app[?]ed to the West Wyalong…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →