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It is a very far cry from the mahogany tree standing in depths of the dense tropical forest to the highly-polished veneers used to face the latest television set in London or New York. However, Gold Coast logs shown above, will soon be on their way The photo, is of the log pond at Takoradi Harbour, where logs of all classification, shapes and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY Monday: The Joint Coal Board has decided to build working mens clubs, with liquor barn…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Monday: The annual report of the National Coal Board is expected to show a loss of about £20 million on the first year's…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MELBOURNE, Monday: The Commonwealth Government had agreed to sponsor the importation…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Tuesday. -- the Miners' Federation will urge the Full Executive meeting of the A.C.T.U. in Melbourne tomorrow to support the nationalisation of the coal industry. A resolution to this effect will be placed before the meeting by the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sir.--Your correspondent, "Victim", 5748, has shown very clearly that he is the victim of a strange collection of hallucinations. He has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Support to the extent of £100 per year for the maintenance of the Cudgen Headland road, the depositing of sand in a position…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Wednesday.--The rationing of coal by the Joint coal Board to New South Wales, Victoria and South Australian consumers is likely to last until the end of the winter months. The Coal Board wants at least a reserve built up at the rate of 40,000 tons a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Wednesday: Stoppages on the coalfields are sabotaging the Joint Coal Board's plan to build up Australian coal stocks by rationing of power, gas and transport. Sixteen mines were idle in New South Wales today…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Thursday.--Mining leaders will hold a special conference with members of the Joint Coal Board in Sydney tomorrow to discuss the coal crisis. All aspects of coal production and the causes of daily…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →JOHANNESBURG, Thursday: A coal trade spokesman said the labor difficulties in Australia did not justify the diversion there of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →JOHANNESBURG, Thursday (AAP).--A spokesman for the South African coal trade said yesterday that Australia's requests for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →FOR "SOMETHING OLD," Eileen Marjorie Eggins wore a gold pendant her mother had worn on her wedding day, and carried a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MELBOURNE, Thursday: Nationalisation of the mining industry was "the real solution of the coal problem," the ACTU declared today when its executive endorsed the decision of the 1947 ACTU…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Friday: The Joint Coal Board and the Sydney County Council are attempting to augment…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CONCERNED, as it should, be, at the threat of unemployment which the coal shortage imposes on many of its…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Friday: The Joint Coal Board is trying to induce the Miners' Federation to reintroduce alternate Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Sunday: The President of the Miners' Federation, Mr I. Williams, said tonight that all matters associated with the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Sunday.--A 35-hour working week for miners will be one of the proposals discussed at the special conference tomorrow by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MELBOURNE, Sunday: The nationalisation of coal mines in Australia would mean still harsher taxation to make good…
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