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Northern Rivers · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1945

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100,000 German Miners at Work

Tweed Daily · Friday 29 June 1945 · page 1

LONDON, Thursday: About 100,000 German miners are working in 126 reopened mines in the Ruhr…

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Engineer to Search for Gold

Tweed Daily · Friday 29 June 1945 · page 5

In an endeavor to locate the source of gold and other minerals found in deposits along the beaches south of the Tweed River…

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Improved Coal Position

Tweed Daily · Saturday 30 June 1945 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday: The coal position had greatly improved, the Acting Premier (Mr Baddeley) said today. He felt there…

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Ruhr Mines Work Again

Northern Star · Saturday 30 June 1945 · page 2

LONDON Friday (AAP).—About 100,000 German miners are now working in the reopened Ruhr coal mines, states the Alledi News…

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The Northern Star Published Daily at Lismore. Saturday, June 30, 1945. End of a Chapter For the Miners

Northern Star · Saturday 30 June 1945 · page 4

THE Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) has announced that it will not be necessary to ration electricity…

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Sunk by Mine

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 11 July 1945 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday: It was revealed at SHAEF that the ship Empire Javelin, carrying the main body of the U.S. 15th…

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Tennis Balls Helped to Beat Magnetic Mine

Tweed Daily · Friday 13 July 1945 · page 4

Twenty-three million tennis balls, the entire wartime output of the United Kingdom, were used by British scientists to…

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British Miners Attitude

Tweed Daily · Thursday 19 July 1945 · page 3

LONDON, Wednesday; "I do not think it is possible to reconcile the miners to private ownership any langer,"…

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Good Work by Mines Detection Squad

Northern Star · Thursday 19 July 1945 · page 4

In a recent despatch from Bougainville describing the bravery, resourcefulness and ingenuity of the Mines Detection Squad, in…

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Mine Tragedy Caused By Negligence

Northern Star · Tuesday 24 July 1945 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday.—There was criminal negligence, but he could not return a verdict along those lines, declared the Coroner (Mr…

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Miners Seen As Spearheads in Drive on Tokyo

Northern Star · Wednesday 25 July 1945 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Rev. Alan Walker, of the Waverley Methodist Church, formerly a minister on the northern coalfields,…

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Perth Coal Shortage

Northern Star · Thursday 26 July 1945 · page 7

PERTH, Wednesday. — The coal shortage reached another stage in Perth last night when it was found necessary to suspend tram, trolley…

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Father, Son Killed by Coal Fire Fumes

Northern Star · Thursday 26 July 1945 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday. — Prolonged inhalation of carbon mon[?]xide fumes from a coal fire in a [?]oom in which they were sleeping…

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Coal Nationalisation Opposed by Judge

Northern Star · Friday 27 July 1945 · page 7

CANBERRA, Thursday. — Nationalisation cf the coal mining industry might prove to be merely an obnoxious form of appeasement,…

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British Task Force Sweeps Malayan Coast Mines Swept From "Invasion Waters"

Northern Star · Tuesday 31 July 1945 · page 1

GUAM, Monday (AAP).—A strong task force of the British East Indies Fleet last Week made a three-day sweep up the west coast of Malaya, where Tokio has been reporting Allied landings. The task force carried out extensive mines weeping operations in areas suitable for…

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Gold Being Returned to Holland

Tweed Daily · Thursday 2 August 1945 · page 1

LONDON, Wednesday: The first big consignment of refugee gold to return to goldstarved Europe is at present…

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U.s. Need of Release of Miners

Tweed Daily · Thursday 2 August 1945 · page 1

NEW YORK, Wednesday: The Washington correspondent of the New York Times says: The Deputy-Administrator of…

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Mine Detector Used to Locate Bullion (From Our Correspondent

Northern Star · Thursday 2 August 1945 · page 5

MANILA, Wednesday.—To recover 17 million pesos in silver bullion (about £2,600,000) from the sea bed at Manila Bay, a special…

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Sought Extra Food For German Miners

Tweed Daily · Friday 3 August 1945 · page 1

NEW YORK, Thursday: The Herald Tribune's Washington correspondent says: Mr Truman took to Potsdam…

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Big Mine Strike

Northern Star · Tuesday 14 August 1945 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday. —. Resumption of the strike involving mine deputies to-day laid idle 25 collieries on the South Maitland…

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