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Mining & the mines, 1947

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Turf Notes From Sydney Munro for Gold Souvenir? Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Friday 14 March 1947 · page 8

New Zealand champion, Golden Souvenir, will probably stall favorite for the Kawf[?] Stakes at Rosehill on Saturday work, following a suggestion that Darby…

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Heavt Coal Losses in Nsw Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 15 March 1947 · page 10

Coal losses in NSW so far this year totalled half a million tons which is more than twice the losses for the same period last year…

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Mines Stoppage Threat Deputies and Shot Firers Wollongong

Border Morning Mail · Monday 17 March 1947 · page 3

A State-wide stoppage of deputies land shot firers is threatened as the result of a meeting of the Illawarra branch of the Deputies and Shot…

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Coal Miners' Health Bruxner Condemns Government Delay

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 18 March 1947 · page 1

When the new Coal Regulation (Amendment) Bill was under discussion in the Legislative Assembly, the Leader of the Country…

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Royal Navy Helps Coal Fleet

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 18 March 1947 · page 3

In their tank of beating blizzards, gales and ice-floes in order to maintain a constant supply of coal from the mines in the North to the…

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Miners Will Go Rabbiting Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 18 March 1947 · page 1

As hundreds of men are preparing to go rabbiting with the opening of the new season, managers of coal mines anticipate a large degree of…

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More Recruits For Britain’s Mines

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 18 March 1947 · page 3

The foundations are being laid for the increase in the great national production drive in Britain which was revealed to be vital to the nation’[?]…

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Key Men May Leave All Mines Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 18 March 1947 · page 1

Stoppages in all underground and open-cut mines are threatened within the next two weeks because of disputes involving deputies,…

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Queensland Miners Threatened Strike Off Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 20 March 1947 · page 4

Queensland miners President (Mr. Miller) said mine owners in Queensland had agreed to the demands for increased wages and the threatened strike there would not take…

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Police Kill 9 Miners LONDON

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 22 March 1947 · page 10

The Valencia correspondent of British Associated Press states that nine coal-miners were shot dead when police discovered what they called a…

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Albania’s “Hatred” of Britain Mining Incident Before Security Council Lake Success

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 22 March 1947 · page 1

Because of Albania’s unexplained hatred of Britain and because previous negotiations between the two countries had failed, it would be…

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[?]lieved He Ran Over Land Mine NEWCASTLE, Sunday

Border Morning Mail · Monday 24 March 1947 · page 3

A man who was driving a heavy [?]-trailer motor near Williamtown [?] night believes that he ran over and mine or a small bomb. He was…

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Soviet’s Charge Against Britain Mines In Corfu Channel Lake Success

Border Morning Mail · Monday 24 March 1947 · page 2

The United States and Belgium have joined Colombia and Australia in asserting their belief that Albania must have bad knowledge of the…

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[?] Miners Died in Mine Fire Heerlen

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 26 March 1947 · page 7

Thirteen Dutch miners, who were trapped in a blazing inferno 1000 feet below the surface, died before rescue workers could reach them…

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Engine-drivers May Be Withdrawn From Mines Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 26 March 1947 · page 2

A serious dispute at open cut mines in NSW has teen reported to the Central Coal Deference Board by the Western and Southern…

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Brown Coal Supplies to Cease Less Briquettes For Industry Too MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 26 March 1947 · page 1

At a conference between the State Electricity Commission and Mr G. Brown, State Coal Controller, today, it was decided to cease bringing…

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Relief Ship Hits Mine LONDON

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 27 March 1947 · page 5

The [?]rade correspondent of Reuter states that the United States [?] Sr. Lawrence Victory, bound for Sibenik from the United States with UNRRA supplies was…

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Bodies Of 21 Miners Recovered CENTRALIA (Illinois), Wed

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 27 March 1947 · page 1

Twenty-one bodies have been recovered from a soft coal mine near Centralia where over 100 men are still entombed as the result of an…

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Many Mines May Be Idle Next Week Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 27 March 1947 · page 2

All south coast mines will be idle from next Monday unless deputies and shot firers receive wider workers’ compensation benefits. Deputies and…

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To Seek Gold in N.T. SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 27 March 1947 · page 1

Today Myer Davis and Arthur Ney, both aged 50 years, set out in a truck for the Northern Territory to prospect for gold. Both hove had mining…

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