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Northern Rivers · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1940

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Geebung Chosen for Doncaster To-day Mildura, Gold Salute Next Best Reading for St. Leger

Northern Star · Saturday 23 March 1940 · page 8

Geebung, Mildura and Gold Salute are expected to fill the places in the Doncaster Handicap at Randwick to-day. High Caste, the conqueror of Ajax, is an acceptor, but at the time of writing there is doubt…

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Steel Works May Cease Production Effects of Coal Shortage

Tweed Daily · Monday 25 March 1940 · page 5

SYDNEY, Sunday:—The effect the shortage of a coal caused by the miners' strike will have during next month on employment in…

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Poles to Join Allied Mine-sweepers---fled From Gydnia London

Northern Star · Monday 25 March 1940 · page 1

Six Polish trawlers will take their place alongside the British minesweeping fleets within the next few days…

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Gold Salute May Not Race in Sydney Again Sydney

Northern Star · Monday 25 March 1940 · page 5

Mr. Alan Cooper, wealthy patron of the turf, and prominent owner, may never race Gold Salute in Sydney again. He was angry after the…

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Danish Holiday-makers Marooned by Mines

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 26 March 1940 · page 6

COPENHAGEN, Sunday:—Mines in the waterway between Syen and Zeeland marooned hundreds of Danish holiday-makers in Jutland…

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Test If Rail Workers Will Support Miners

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 26 March 1940 · page 4

SYDNEY, Sunday:—The strikers' chances of getting co-operation from the Australian Railways Union to prevent the transport of…

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Coal Strike £200,000 Loss In Wages Effect Being Felt

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 26 March 1940 · page 5

SYDNEY:.Beginning from to-day, the Queensland Railway Department will restrict services on poorly patronised trains, and alter mixed and…

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Strike at Gold Mine PERTH

Northern Star · Wednesday 27 March 1940 · page 11

The Big Bell gold mine, on the Murchison field, where a strike has occurred, has been closed indefinitely. and many unmarried employees…

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Coal Strike: Newcastle Faces Crisis Newcastle

Northern Star · Wednesday 27 March 1940 · page 1

The B.H.P's. Newcastle steelworks, employing 6000, will close next week unless the coal strike ends before then…

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"Means of Settling Coal Strike" Mr. Menzies Is Not Impressed

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 27 March 1940 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Tuesday:—The Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) said to-day that he was not impressed by Mr. Elackburn's suggestion that the coal…

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Thousands Of Men to Be Put Off Effects of Coal Strike

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 27 March 1940 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tuesday:—It is expected that as a result of the coal strike Broken Hill Pty. Steel Works, Newcastle, will…

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"Stop Coal Strike"

Tweed Daily · Thursday 28 March 1940 · page 4

BRISBANE, Wednesday:—A resolution calling on the Federal Government to stop the coal strike immediately, even by proclaiming it by…

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Warning Not to Increase Coal Prices

Tweed Daily · Thursday 28 March 1940 · page 5

CANBERRA, Wednesday:—A warning against colliery proprietors increasing the price of reserved stocks of coal and coke…

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Delay [?]Ueried Mid-richmond Coal Resources Coraki

Northern Star · Thursday 28 March 1940 · page 2

Coraki Chamber of Commerce, which had previously suggested to the Woodburn Shire Council that the council apply for a grant-loan to…

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Reserve Coal Stock Prices Must Not Be Raised, Warns Minister Canberra

Northern Star · Thursday 28 March 1940 · page 6

Allegations that colliery owners were increasing the price of reserve stocks of coal and coke because of the strike in the coal industry…

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Deadly Mines

Northern Star · Friday 29 March 1940 · page 1

Britain is laying a giant minefield, several miles in width and extending from the Scottish coast in the north to the mouth of the River Thames in the south. Long rows of mines on a British minelayer, which is working with the floating "Wall of defence" of Britain's coast, are the…

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Move to End Coal Strike

Tweed Daily · Friday 29 March 1940 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Thursday:—Unofficial activities of Government and political party leaders in the…

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£1400 Gold Strike at Drake

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 29 March 1940 · page 2

CASINO: Mr. Jack Hickey, well-known Drake prospector, was in town this week and reported that about two hundred…

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Slowing Down of Industry By Coal Strike

Tweed Daily · Friday 29 March 1940 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Thursday:—It is believed that a slowing down of industry is inevitable if the coal strike continues much longer…

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State Control? Move to End Coal Strike in Q'land Brisbane

Northern Star · Friday 29 March 1940 · page 7

The Queensland Coal Owners Advisory Committee to-day decided to meet the management of the Queensland Collieries…

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