Mine Subsidence Wrecks Ten Houses No Casulaties
NEWCASTLE, Sunday.—Ten houses were wrecked by a mine subsidence in Wallsend Street, Pelaw Main, near Kurri Kurri, today. Great fissures appeared at the rear of the…
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Mining & the mines, 1953
97 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 2 of 5
Mine Mishap Subsidence Extension Feared
CESSNOCK, Monday.—Local residents fear there may be an extension of the mine subsidence which…
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PARIS, Wednesday (AAP). —Ten sailors were killed in naval operations off the south-eastern coast of…
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SYDNEY, Friday.— The central executive of the Miners' Federation today called pit-top meetings to protest…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—The dismissal of a lodge official at a Northern N.S.W. coal mine has led to the threat of…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The wave of stoppages on the coalfields in connection with the John Darling dispute has…
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WAGGA, Tuesday.—Equal seccond favourites, Belavia and Sydney stayer, Two Birdies, deadheated in the Wagga Gold Cup…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Mrs. Marie Joan Doyle, wife of the bankrupt punter and investor, told the Bankruptcy Court today that she had bought shares from the Minister for Mines, Mr. J. G. Arthur, and had agreed to share the profits with him 50-50…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—One man was killed and another critically injured in a mine explosion eight miles from Cooma today. The man killed, Noel Francis Burke, 40, of…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Marie Joan Doyle, wife of bankrupt punter and investor, Reginald Aubrey Doyle, told the Bankruptcy Court today she thought the Minister for Mines, Mr. J. Arthur, sold her shares below market value because he did not have the money to buy a new issue…
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MURWILLUMBAH, Wednesday.—Tweed Heads and Coolangatta Hospital Board will surrender a lease held…
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SYDNEY, Sunday. — Central council of the Miners' Federation decided today to call aggregate meetings if any…
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SYDNEY, Sunday. — Although it has offered more than £2 million worth of surplus earth moving plant for…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Strikes in sympathy with the John Darling miners caused a loss of 21,000 tons of coal from…
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SYDNEY, Monday. — A B.H.P. representative announced today that all employees of John Darling…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday. — A gold bar worth £3,500 was stolen bp thieves from a safe in the office of the A1…
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NEWCASTLE, Thursday.— John Darling colliery employees will receive dismissal notices tomorrow…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—The Joint Coal Board regards "suggestions or innuendoes" in allegations against the former N.S.W. Minister for Mines, Mr. Arthur, as irresponsible…
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SYDNEY, Thursday. — A witness told the John Darling inquiry today the mine dispute could have been the…
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SYDNEY, Friday. — Neville Vincent Steers admitted today that he had told a cleaning gang to remain in a mine at John Darling Colliery after a deputy had ordered them to leave…
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