Miners' Chief Not Seeking Re-election
SYDNEY, Tuesday: The Miners' Federation president Mr H. Wells) will not nominate for re-election. It is…
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Mining & the mines, 1947
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Miners' President Not To Seek Re-election
SYDNEY, Tuesday. — The General President of the Miners' Federation (Mr. Wells) decided today not to stand for re-election in the…
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AUCKLAND (N.Z.), Wednesday.— Coal mines and coal deposits in New Zealand would be nationalised, saidthe Minister for Mines (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Use of Submarines To Conserve Coal
LONDON, Thursday (AAP).— Submarines are to be used in the principal British naval dockyards to generate power in order to save…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →News of the World New Coal Machine
A new British machine which should help materially to increase coal production in the United Kingdom is now going into some North…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →To Sweep Mines Off Qld. Coast
BRISBANE, Friday: The 20th Minesweeping Flotilla of eight ships will leave Sydney on January 14 to begin operations off…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Argentina Getting Back Gold Reserve
NEW YORK, Friday: The United Press correspondent at Buenos Aires says: Central Bank sources disclosed that Argentina was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hope Abandoned for Trapped Miners
LONDON, Sunday (AAP). — Rescue squads last night, were working desperately to reach the 14 miners trapped behind a wall of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Krupp Home Now Coal Off ice
The four-storey, former showplace home of the Krupp family stands undamaged only a few miles from the bomb-blasted…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →No Hope for 14 Men Trapped in Burning Mine
LONDON, Sunday : Hope has been abandoned of saving 14 men trapped following an explosion in the Burngrange Mine at West Colder, Midlothian (Scotland) fen Friday night. The…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Corfu Channel Mining Albania Accuses Greece
LONDON, Sunday (AAP).— Albania's reply to the British Notes about the mining of British destroyers Volant and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners Say: No Meat No Coal
SYDNEY, Tuesday: Miners' leaders told the Minister for Labor and Industry (Mr Hamilton Knight) today that unless…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →14 Miners Dead
LONDON, Tuesday: After three days' work to reach 14 miners trapped behind a wall of fire and rock in Burngrange…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →All Trapped Miners Dead
LONDON, Tuesday (AAP). — after three days' work to reach 14 [?] trapped behind a wall of are in Burngrange shale mine…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Miners' Warning on Meat Strike
SYDNEY, Tuesday. — The miners' leaders to-day warned the Minister for Labour and Industry (Mr. Hamilton Knight)…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Second Appointment To Joint Coal Board
CANBERRA, Tuesday. — Further progress in the appointment of a Joint Coal Board has been made, the Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) said…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Rich Gold Strike in Refuse Pit
KALGOORLIE, Tuesday.—A rich gold-bearing reef has been discovered under an old refuse pit near Manities. Specimens have yielded…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Less Coal for Some U.k. Industries
LONDON, Tuesday; Owing to increased consumption of coal, especially for electrictiy, the Government had decided to cut by half the allocations to "less essential industries,"…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Britain Rations Coal to Industry on Priority Basis
LONDON, Tuesday (AAP).—Owing to the increased consumption of coal in Britain, especially for electricity, the Government has decided to cut allocations to "less essential industries" by 50 per cent. and give additional supplies to industries engaged on work of "national…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Fuel Oil Imports Would Offset Shortage of Coal"
BRISBANE, Tuesday. — A plea for the full entry of fuel oil into Australia to meet what he described as the present ominous shortage of coal…
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