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Murray · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1951

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“Coal Board out to help Sugar Co.”

Border Morning Mail · Friday 27 July 1951 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thurs,: The Joint Coal Board wm doing everything possible to help the Colonial Sugar Refining Company out…

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Explosives on way for use in cool mines

Border Morning Mail · Friday 27 July 1951 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thurs.: Arrival of a cargo of explosives from Melbourne on Monday is expected to avert the threatened closure…

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Cool miners’ big output

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 28 July 1951 · page 18

SYDNEY, Fri. NSW coal miners this week passed their output for the corresponding period last year. Production of 270,000 tons of…

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Miners may strike in Queensland

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 28 July 1951 · page 18

BRISBANE, Fri.: A coal miners’ strike in Queensland is likely following an application by the Owners’ Association to the Coal…

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Coal Stack Fire Inquiry Is Demanded

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 28 July 1951 · page 18

SYDNEY, Fri.: A public inquiry into the firing of a 90,000 tons stack of coal at Ravensworth between Singleton and…

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Coal Ship Aground

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 2 August 1951 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Wed: The 3089 ton ship Kooralya, loaded with coal, went aground on a mud bank in Newcastle Harbor…

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Catholic Women's Social Gold

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 3 August 1951 · page 1

At the monthly meeting of the C.W.S.G. held on July 20, a presentation was made by the president, Mrs Esmond, to Mrs D…

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Miners’ threat over dismissals

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 7 August 1951 · page 8

SYDNEY, Mon.: Service of dismissal notices on three western district miners’ officials would be resisted by the…

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Miners’ Appeal to Union

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 8 August 1951 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tues.: The Central Council of the Miners’ Federation today called on women in the coalfields areas to become…

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Miners’ move to hold Glen Davis

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 8 August 1951 · page 6

SYDNEY, Tues: Trade unionists will be asked to refuse to remove materials from the Glen Davis shale oil plant…

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Pictures Australian Gold Fields Story

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 10 August 1951 · page 2

The Majestic Theatre has an exciting film about early days on one of Australian's famous gold fields scheduled for next…

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Mayor’s threat to push ’barrow of coal to Sydney !

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 11 August 1951 · page 1

NEWCASTLE, Fri.: The Mayer of Cessnock (Ald. F. Hallam) today threatened to push a wheelbarrow full of…

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Brown coal is the key to Victoria’s future progress

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 11 August 1951 · page 18

To all Victorian citizens — country people and city, dwellers alike—further development of Victoria’s immense brown…

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Striking miners to resume work

Border Morning Mail · Monday 13 August 1951 · page 2

BROKEN HILL, Sun.: The Workers Industrial Union today decided to accept a compulsory conference between the…

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Higher coal prices “justified”

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 14 August 1951 · page 9

CANBERRA, Mon.: The Minister for National Development (Senator Spooner), said tonight that the…

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Nsw Premier Opposed Higher Coal Prices

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 14 August 1951 · page 2

SYDNEY, Mon.: The Joint Coal Board notified the State Government last month that it proposed to review the price of…

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Fox Gold, Star of South lose favor for Epsom

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 14 August 1951 · page 16

SYDNEY, Mon.: Fox Gold and Star of the South have gone out of favor for the Epsom Handicap as a result of their poor display at Canterbury on Saturday. Fox Gold, who was one of the second…

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Wave of Mine Stoppages

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 15 August 1951 · page 9

SYDNEY, Tues.: Disputes on the northern field today resulted in the loss of 4200 tons of gas coal and 1500 tons of industrial…

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Western Mines May All Stop

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 15 August 1951 · page 9

SYDNEY, Tues: Western district miners’ officials today called slopwork meetings of all miners in the western district for…

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Miners’ Stop-work Called Off

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 16 August 1951 · page 2

SYDNEY. Wed.: The Miners’ Federation today called off stop-work meetings of western miners set down for tomorrow…

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