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Northern Rivers · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1948

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Americans Lured by N.g. "Gold Rush"

Northern Star · Saturday 4 December 1948 · page 5

NEW YORK, Friday (AAP).—The Australian News and Information Bureau and the "New York Times" are receiving many telephone calls from Americans eager to go to New Guinea in search of gold since the publication…

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All Coal Mines Worked Yesterday

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 7 December 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday: For the second time this year, all coal mines in New South Wales were producing today…

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Coal Lag Bar to Rural Electricity

Northern Star · Tuesday 7 December 1948 · page 3

GRAFTON, Monday.—Major programmes planned by the Clarence River County Council will not be developed with confidence until a solution is obtained to the problem of insufficient coal supplies for…

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No Coal Rationing if Output Maintained

Northern Star · Tuesday 7 December 1948 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday. — If the present rate of production continues there would be no rationing of coal by the Board, the Joint Coal…

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Coal Board Find Position Discouraging

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 8 December 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday: At least a million tons of coal a year is being lost because of stoppages which are not justified. The Joint Coal Board says this in its first report…

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Government's "Retreat Before Miners"

Tweed Daily · Thursday 9 December 1948 · page 1

CANBERRA, Wednesday: "The Commonwealth Government had a shocking record of retreating before the miners," said the…

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Tweed Heads Miners' Seaside Paradise

Tweed Daily · Friday 10 December 1948 · page 2

Tweed Heads and become known as the coal miners' paradise, according to the secretary of Tweed Heads Urban Committee, Mr A E. Davey…

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Miners Will Not Work On Xmas Eve

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 14 December 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday: The Joint Coal Board's proposal that miners should work on Christmas Eve was rejected today by…

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Less Gold Won in Australia

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 15 December 1948 · page 4

CANBERRA, Tuesday: A decline in gold production in Australia was revealed in figures issued by the Commonwealth Statistician,…

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Coal Output Will Decide Miners' Holidays

Northern Star · Thursday 16 December 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday. — The length of the N.S.W. mineworkers' holiday at Christmas will depend on coal production between now…

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French Miners May Suelloyds

Northern Star · Thursday 16 December 1948 · page 5

PARIS, Wednesday (AAP). —M. Celestin Bias, secretary of the Communist-led French Federation of Miners, said to-day that the…

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Austn. Output of Gold Declines

Northern Star · Thursday 16 December 1948 · page 3

CANBERRA, Wednesday.—A decline in gold production in Australia was revealed in figures issued by the Acting Commonwealth Statistician…

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Coal Output Likely to Be Above Last Year

Tweed Daily · Saturday 18 December 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday: The New South Wales coal miners are expected to exceed this year the 11,680,000 tons production of last…

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Coal Stockpile Adequate

Northern Star · Tuesday 21 December 1948 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday—"If mineworkers can stick to their jobs until Thursday last year's coal figures of 11,680 tons will be bettered," said…

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Spurt in Coal Production

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 21 December 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY. Monday: If the mine workers remained at work until Thursday last year's coal production of 11.680,000 tons would be…

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Miners to Take Full Holidays

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 22 December 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday: The New South Wales miners would take their full period of annual holidays from December 23 to…

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Miners' Output Not Cause for Jubilation

Northern Star · Thursday 23 December 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—In a review of New South Wales coal production during the current year, the Research Service says there is no cause for jubilation at the fact that coal rationing has been averted…

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Unionists Only in U.k. Coal Mines

Tweed Daily · Friday 24 December 1948 · page 1

LONDON, Thursday: The "closed shop" is to operate in British coal mines from February 1 when it will be a…

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More Coal Than Last Year

Tweed Daily · Friday 24 December 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday: The New South Wales coal miners, in a last-minute spurt, exceeded last year's…

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Seven Die In Shanghai 'Gold Rush'

Tweed Daily · Friday 24 December 1948 · page 1

SINGAPORE, Thursday: Seven persons, including a woman, were tramped or suffocated to death, and 15…

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