Shire Council Beach Mining Moves
Tweed Shire Council yesterday rejected a recommendation from the parks committee that it rigorously oppose the…
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Mining & the mines, 1948
521 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 11 of 27
Letters To The Editor (Letters to the Editor should not exceed 250 words.) Britain's Coal Industry
Sir,--In the "Northern Star" of 12648, "A. Brown" attacks the British Labour Government on the coal industry, but concludes in its…
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BRISBANE, Thursday: The mineral-bearing sands on Strad-broke Island would yield 100 tons of concentrate weekly with…
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Coolangatta Town Council, at its meeting on Tuesday, by a four to three majority, reaffirmed its decision to Object to a…
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COPENHAGEN, Friday (AAP).--The Danish passenger vessel, Kjobenhaven, 1668 tons, struck a mine and sank on the east coast…
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LONDON, Friday: It is estimated there were about 100 killed or drowned when the 168-ton Danish passenger vessel, Kjobenhabn, at dawn today hit a mine and sank on the east…
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SYDNEY, Monday: Coal production in New South Wales for the six months of this year amounted to only 5million tons…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.--The Joint Coal Board tonight announced that drastic rationing of coal to New South Wales industrial users would…
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Coolangatta Town Council last night decided to offer no objection to the application by Midi's J. Casey and A. P…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Severe Coal Crisis Hits New Sth. Wales Sydney Will Be Dead City Today
SYDNEY, Tuesday: Overnight N.S.W. has been faced with a coal crisis which will result[?]in widespread unemployment affecting the entire Australian economy. | Sydney tomorro will be a dead city, with the use of electricity…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday: Late the afternoon the NSW coal crisis took a turn for the worse with a decision by the northern miners to hold stop work meetings on Monday. Defying appeas by the Coal T[?]al they will discuss the calling of…
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LONDON, Thursday: The Danish schooner, Horiza, en route from Poland to Jutland, struck a mine and sank near where the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Federal Aid in Bid to Avert Coal Disaster in N. S. W.
SYDNEY, Thursday: The Federal Government has intervened in a last-minute bid to avert disaster in the New South Wales coal crisis. The Minister for Supply and Shipping, Senator Ashley, will confer early tomorrow morning with the Premier, Mr McGirr, the Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Crushed to Death by Coal
SYDNEY, Friday: John Adams, 42, of Granville, was crushed to death under a sudden avalanche of more than 20…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Crisis Averted: Solution. Follows Seven-Hr Conference
SYDNEY, Friday.--A conference lasting more than seven hours reached a solution to-night to the dispute which threatened a major upheaval on the New South Wales coalfields on Monday. Before a solution was reached State Cabinet this afternoon decided that…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Crisis Over; Stopwork Meeting Unlikely to Be Held
SYDNEY, Friday : An eleventh hour settlement of the New South Wales coal cri[?]s was reached tonight. At 9.30 p.m., the Premier, Mr McGirr, announced that the Northern miners' management board would…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Striking Miners At Five Collieries To Work Today
SYDNEY, Sunday: All collieries involved in the strike which led to the crisis last week in the coal industry will return to work tomorrow. Meetings of miners today were addressed by…
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SYDNEY, Sunday: A Swansea miner has publicly challenged Newcastle's 22 stone Lord Mayor, Mr. Harry Quinlan, to…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.--A vital meeting of the State Cabinet in the morning will be asked to endorse recommendations aimed at rationing power to industry for at least one day during…
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CANBERRA, Monday: The Commonwealth Government will stand firmly behind the provisions of the Coal Industry Act, which…
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