More Miners Leave A.l.p
WOLLONGONG, Thurs.: South coast miners at pit-top meetings today decided in favor of the southern district branch of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Mining & the mines, 1949
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Shorter Working Week for Miners Opposed
SYDNEY, Tues.: Any reduction in the working hours in the coal industry would reduce production and involve…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Gold Passes Under Discussion
CANBERRA Wed.: Mr Falstein (Labor, NSW) said in the House of Representatives today the only use to which he had…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Board Purchases Marx House
CANBERRA, Thurs : Coal Mines Insurance Pty Ltd., a registered company in which the Joint Coal Board held…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Change Over From Coal to Oil
The N.S.W. Railway Department has changed several of its engines over from coal to oil burners. This new oil burner turned out for duty at Albury yesterday to pull a goods train…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Prices Dispute
BONN, Fri: The Allied-West German dispute over German coal prices ended last night with the Allied approval of the German rates…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners to Stop Work in Queensland
BRISBANE, Fri.: Stop-work meetings of Queensland miners will be held next week as a protest against a decision of a Coal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Production by De Fence Personnel
CANBERRA, Fri: Army troops and RAAF personnel produced 107,188 tons of coal from open-cut mines during the coal strike, the Minister for Fuel…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Millions of Tons of Coal at Oaklands Still Await Development
IF you drive north-easterly out of Oaklands for six or seven miles you see on all hands the evidence of the wealth of the district–sheep now shorn, their wool on the way to the sales, and the wheat ears filling for the approaching harvest…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Rutherglen Makes 1,600,000 Gallons of Wine a Year Industry More Valuable Than Gold
THE traveller along the Murray Valley who halts awhile at Rutherglen sees an old town with a narrow main street, and he thinks, perhaps, of the gold that was won when mining was in its heyday. He may have noted idly the neatly pruned vines that run up to the road…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Oaklands Black Coal Field
To speed up development of the Oakland black coal field in Riverina, Victoria is seeking a conference with the Federal and New…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Court's Decision Causes Mine Hold-up
SYDNEY, Mon.: As protest against the High Court's decision invalidating part of the Federal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Long Service Leave for Miners
CANBERRA, Tues: The Prime Minister today announced that Cabinet had recommended the introduction of legislation. to finance the cost of long…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Black Market in Free Coal Alleged
SYDNEY. Wed.: Blackmarketing in coal supplied free to [?]wood mine employes for household use, was alleged at a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →When Gold and Football Boomed at Rutherglen
THE days when gold was a source of vast wealth iii Rutherglen, when football in the town evoked the keenest feeling and led to an extraordinarily amusing incident, are…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Long Coal Contracts Sought
BRISBANE, Son.: The Premier, of Queensland has written to the Premiers of Victoria (Mr Hollway), and South Australia (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Petrol Shortage May Cut Coal Production
SYDNEY, Sun: Unless emergency supplies of petrol are obtained, the Joint Coal Board fears that coal production will fall by one-third [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Vagabond Not for Moonee Valley Gold Cup
MELBOURNE, Mon: Leading Sydney jockey Neville Se[?]wood, will decide on his W. S. Cox Piate mount after track work at Moonee Valley…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Blue and Gold Revue Had Its Colourful Moments Two Hundred Turned Away
DENILIQUIN HOSPITAL and Ambulance will Benefit to the extent of approximately £30 each as a result of the successful Blue and Gold Revue on Tuesday night last. The social committee of the Deniliquin Football Club presented…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Oaklands Black Coal Field
To speed up development of the Oaklands black coal field in Riverina Victoria is seeking a conference with the [?] and New South Wales…
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