R.A.N. Corvette Sinks After Striking Mine Off Cairns Five Dead, One Missing, 23 Injured As A Result BRISBANE
North West Champion · Monday 15 September 1947 · page 1
Two seamen were killed, one is missing and 26 officers and ratings were injured when the 780-ton Australian corvette Warrambool struck a mine and sank off Cairns on Saturday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Stay-in Strike at Mine Newcastle
The North Western Courier · Monday 22 September 1947 · page 1
Thirteen wheelers are staging a stay-in strike at the Waratah colliery today as a protest against summonses issued by the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Fight Against Coal Dust
The North Western Courier · Thursday 2 October 1947 · page 1
Coal dust in mines has for the last few years been the subject of constant scientific and medical research, as well as the chief concern of mining engineers. A mines inspector is pictured taking a dust sample down a Welsh mine…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners Work Today Sydney
The North Western Courier · Monday 6 October 1947 · page 1
Southern miners made history today by working on Six-Hour Day. In previous years they have observed the holiday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Deposits Surveyed a N'bri
The North Western Courier · Monday 13 October 1947 · page 1
The Narrabri Service Office has been advised by the Narrabri Chamber of Commerce that departmental reports exist…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ten Mines Idle SYDNEY
The North Western Courier · Monday 20 October 1947 · page 1
Ten mines are idle in N.S.W. to-day and there will be a coal loss of nearly 10,000 tons. A threatened strike by railway…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Moree Races. Handicap to Gold Souvenir
North West Champion · Monday 20 October 1947 · page 4
Starting at 3 to 1. Mrs. Gladys Scott's void Souvenir won the J. T. Crane Handicap by three lengths at the race meeting held…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire at Coal Mine Newcastle
The North Western Courier · Monday 24 November 1947 · page 1
A pit top fire which did more tham £1000 worth of damage at South Waratah colliery yesterday, reach the mine month before it…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →World's Greatest Copper Mine Discovered by Goat
The North Western Courier · Thursday 27 November 1947 · page 10
A goat, which came home to the farmyard some time in the dim past with his horns red with copper, was—an old legend says—the real…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Moral of the Lithgow Mine
North West Champion · Thursday 4 December 1947 · page 2
With so much nationalisation talk in the air. it is interesting to note that the State coalmine at Lithgow has managed to achieve yet another…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Butter Made From Coal
The North Western Courier · Monday 22 December 1947 · page 12
A factory that makes butter from coal was one of the prizes discovered by the British in their zone of Germany…
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