Jeweller on Gold Possession Charge
PERTH, Wed.—Police last night visited the fashionable home of James Samuel Boyd, aged 49, jeweller, at Daglish. Boyd was…
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Chifley’s £4 Million a Year Gift to Mine-owners
SYDNEY, Wed.: Miners’ leaders clashed with coalminers’ representatives today before the coal industry tribunal, when…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.: Tomorrow miners’ leaders will confer by telephone with the Prime Minister (Mr Chifley) on claims for…
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SYDNEY. Thurs.: The Joint Coal Board announced tonight that the price of NSW coal to consumers would be increased from Monday…
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The general public in Cessnock district, including the miners, will get no bread until the present strike is settled. Miners, who…
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LONDON, Monday: Coal was as good as gold today, declared the Minister for Economic Affairs (Sir Stafford Cripps) during a…
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BERLIN, Mon.: The United States Military Government newspaper, “Neue Zeitung,” reported yesterday that 80 workers were…
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CANBERRA, Tues.: The copper mine at Barrow Creek in the Northern Territory is lo be developed by a £775,000 company. The…
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SYDNEY, Wed.: The Coal Industry Tribunal chairman (Mr F. H. Gallagher) today awarded 6000 workers in NSW, Queensland, and…
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CANBERRA, Wed.—Unless some serious development occurred there was every reason to believe that the community would have adequate…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.—Australia can claim to be the first country in the world to have finished clearing mines from its waters, said a…
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CANBERRA, Thurs.: Allegations that Mr Blain (Ind. NT) used his Parliamentary gold pass obtain concessions from…
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SYDNEY, Friday: Miners’ Central Council decided today that all miners would take their three weeks’ annual leave at the end of this year, between…
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MELBOURNE, Mon.— Although this week’s allocations of coal to the Victorian Railways were not expected to balance consumption…
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BERLIN. Tues.: Coal thefts from trains in the Berlin and [?] zone had been so heavy that transport would break down this…
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SYDNEY, Wed.: Eight stoppages on NSW coalfields today— seven in the north and one in the south—resulted in a coal loss of…
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SYDNEY. Wed.: Miners’ leaders said tonight that all Queensland mines would be idle on November 30 because of the refusal of the…
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LONDON. Thurs.—A 37 year old South Wales miner, Edwin Greenslade, working alone on a four foot seam produced 120 tons of coal…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →[?]Ghterman Charged with Bomb Outrage Committed Mine Years Ago Sydney
A man was arrested to-day In connection with a bomb outrage nine years ago at [?]combe, when a man and his wife were killed by an explosion. The man was Sydney Baden Powell Shannon, aged 17,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →[?]Eath Threat to Mr. Blain [?] Demanded Gold Pass
PERTH, Fri.: Mr Blain, member [?] Northern Territory, did [?] use his gold pass to gain [?] personal advantage with the…
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