Important Coal Talks Today
SYDNEY, Sunday: Nineteen claims which the Miners' Federation has put forward as a basis for future peace in the…
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Mining & the mines, 1947
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Coded Wires Used in Blackmarket Gold Case, Allege Police
KALGOORLIE, Sunday.—Mysterious telegrams which, police alleged, referred in code to blackmarket gold dealings were quoted in the Kalgoorlie Police Court…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Miners' leaders, coal owners and officials clashed at the Coal Conference to-day attended by the Minister for…
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SYDNEY, Monday: Legislation may be agreed to which will enforce Commonwealth-wide control of the coal industry. This was stated today by the Minister for Supply (Senator Ashley) after the general coal conference in…
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KALGOORLIE, Tuesday.—An option of £200,000 has been taken by a Perth syndicate on the very rich Mountain View mine at Day's…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday: State representatives continued discussions today on the plan to nationalise the coal industry and adjourned…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday: The new coal industry tribunal chairman (Mr F. H. Gallagher) said at his first…
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BRISBANE, Wednesday.— A coal seam of the record thickness of 94 feet has been struck by Blair Athol Open Cut Colliery Ltd…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday: In the Legislative Assembly today the Minister for Mines (Mr. Baddeley), in the second reading of…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Unless it had the ap proval of the Joint Coal Board the Coal Mines Amendment Bill at present before the New South Wales Legislative Assembly was not worth the paper it was written…
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CANBERRA, Wednesday: Mr. James (Lab., N.S.W.) suggested in the House of Representatives today that German technical…
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SYDNEY, Thursday: The Coal Mines Regulation Amendments Bill passed the committee stages in the Legislative Assembly…
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ROME, Thursday (AAP). — The American freighter, Exanthia, bound for Genoa from Alexandria, struck a mine off Pianosa Island…
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SYDNEY, Thursday. — The Coal Mines Regulation Amendment Bill passed the Committee stages in the Legislative Assembly today. Mr…
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SYDNEY, Friday: The Royal Australian Navy's 20th Minesweeping Flotilla, which has been operating, in Barrier Reef waters…
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AUCKLAND (N.Z.), Friday.—plans to recover the remaining [?]135,009 worth of gold from the [?]unken liner Niagara were revealed…
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WOLLONGONG, Sunday.—A Statewide stoppage of deputies and shotfirers was threatened as a result of a meeting of the Illawarra Branch of…
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SYDNEY, Sunday: A nugget of sold weighing 5½ ounces was picked up in one of the main streets of Temora on…
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CASINO, Monday.—Before Mr. A. Hughes, Chamber Magistrate, at Casino Court to-day, Cyril Evans, 24 and Richard Magner,…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday—All Queensland mines will be idle from Monday next unless colliery owners put into effect the decision to…
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