Unable to Meet Coal Needs
SYDNEY, Monday: The urgent need for coal supplies in Victoria and South Australia, where gas rationing is…
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Mining & the mines, 1946
607 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 7 of 31
Smoke From Mine Fire Threatens Residents
CESSNOCK, Monday.—A senior R.A.A.F. officer, who is an expert on bombing, to-day inspected the burning Cessnock No. 2…
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SYDNEY, Monday: RAAF Catalinas will commence bombing the sealed-off section of Cessnock No. 2 colliery at 7.30…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Fire and flood to-day laid 13 coal mines idle in the northern field for the loss of 6920 tons. Two southern and…
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DARWIN, Tuesday — Major E. Swenke of Inverell, N.S.W., is said to be the ex-A.I.F. officer who discovered the rich gold strike about…
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WASHINGTON, Tuesday: The Director-General of UNRRA (Mr La Guardia) has sent a letter to the Soft Coal Mine Owners' chairman (Mr Ezra Wanhorn) and the UMW. president (Mr Lessis) appealing for a…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday: Decided relief was expressed at Cessnock by residents; miners, and many…
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Top: A crater, 130 feet wide and 90 feet deep, on the Cessnock golf links, which are situated over the workings of Cessnock…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →North Coast News Coal Survey
The coal survey in the Coraki district, which commenced nearly a year ago, is still in progress. Floods last year and again in…
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DARWIN, Wednesday.—Major E. Schwenke, of Inverell, has applied for three more twenty-acre leases of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hectic 'Change Boom on Africa Gold Rush
LONDON, Wednesday (AAP).—The "great gold rush" yesterday surged forward with new impetus and gave London Stock Exchange…
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Rising in the northern Urals near the Artie Circle, the Pechora River flows northward for hundreds of miles through desolate…
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LONDON, Friday: A ship's trimmer found clinging exhausted to a raft was the sole survivor of the crew of 11 of a Grimsby…
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LONDON, Friday: Following the discovery of further rich gold-bearing ore in boring at Odensdaal Rust, business on…
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SYDNEY, Sunday: Many volunteers working to control the fire in the burning Cessnock No. 2 Colliery went home last night…
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SYDNEY, Monday. — Although coal supplies are dangerously low, gas and electricity rationing will be introduced only as a last resort…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday: A warning that another State-wide coal strike was threatened unless the…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—The miners' leaders will meet the Federal and State Government's members on Wednesday next to discuss an…
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CANBERRA, Thursday. — The threat of the Central Executive of the Miners' Federation of another coal crisis in New South Wales…
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SYDNEY, Thursday: The threat by Miners Federation leaders to precipitate another coal crisis…
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