'“Luxuries” for German Miners FRANKFURT
The German Bizonal Coal Board for the British and American zones announced a scheme to encourage miners to produce more coal. The miners on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mining & the mines, 1947
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14 Miners Die in Inferno London
Rescue squads are working d[?] to reach 14 miners trapped behind a wall of fire and rock in the Burn Grange shale mine at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Albania Tries to Implicate Greece Mining of Corfu Channel London
Albania in reply to the British Notes about the mining of the Corfu Channel gave Britain no option but to place the matter before the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hope Abandoned for Trapped Miners London
Squads of firemen and rescue workers have been struggling in relays during the week-end to force a passage into the gallery of the Burngrange…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →No Meat; No Coal Miners Warn Government SYDNEY
Miners’ leaders to-day warned the Minister for Labor and Industry (Mr. Hamilton Knight) that stoppages would take place on the coalfields…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flotilla to Sweep Mines Sydney
A Royal Australian naval flotilla consisting of a sloop and six corvettes will sweep mines off the Queensland coast. The flotilla left Sydney today…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Britain Cuts Coal Allocations London
Sir Stafford Cripps (president of the Board of Trade) announced today that owing to the increased consumption of coal, especially for electricity, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rescue Squads Find 14 Bodies of Miners London
After three days’ work to reach 14 miners who were trapped behind a wall of fire and rock in Burngrange shale mine. Midlothian, on January 11…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mine Explosion Plymouth (Penn)
Thirteen miners were killed and two were injured in a colliery explosion 800ft below the surface…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Albury Gold Cup Date
Decision on dates for the Albury Gold Cup meeting will probably be made at meeting of new committee of the Albury Race Club following annual meeting on…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →11,000 Germans Arrested for Stealing Coal London
Eleven thousand people were arrested in Hamburg last week for stealing coal, says the “Evening Standard’s” correspondent in Hamburg. This…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →400 PASSENGERS drowned [?] Steamer Strikes Mine London
It is reported that 400 out of [?] passengers aboard the steamer Chimmara which was on its way to Pireus (Greece) were drowned when it struck…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →RICH W.A. Mine Looks Like Glow Worm Cave Kalgoorlie
Bright seams of gold two and three inches wide are still showing at a depth of 3[?]0 feet in the rich Mountain View mine at Day Dawn,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cuts in Coal Supplies British Steel Industry Expected To Suffer LONDON
Cuts in coal allocation of such severity that the steel output may be forced down by a million tons in 1947 start to-day, according to the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Contract Miners Strike SYDNEY
Contract miners employed on the Borehole [?] at Burwood—Australia’s biggest coal producer—went on strike today because there had been an increase in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners’ Stoppage Threat Sydney
Stoppage on all NSW coalfields would take place unless the State Government amended the Coal Miners’ Regulation Act to provide better…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Albury Gold Cup and Sires Produce Stakes
Originally it was intended to hold the Albury Cold Cup fixture on Friday and Saturday, April 18-19—the Gold Cup to be decided on the Friday, and the Sires’…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Albury Gold Cup and Sires Produce Stakes
Originally it was intended to hold the Albury Gold Cup fixture on Friday and Saturday, the 18th and 19th April--the Gold Cup to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Board Appointments , Completed Canberra
The Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley ) today announced the remaining two appointments to the Joint Coal Board to control the industry in N.S.W. Two…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gold Extraction After Cremation LONDON
The Hamburg correspondent of British Associated Press says that Marton Nennager, a German dentist, admitted at the trial of the staffs of the…
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