Three Gold Medals to Hungary
BERNE, Sunday:-- Hungary won three gold medals at the European Games in Berne yesterday with wins in…
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Mining & the mines, 1954
99 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 4 of 5
Finality Reached on Pillar Coal
SYDNEY, Wednesday. -- Miners at Queensland pits to-day carried by an overwhelming majority a resolution…
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"This is something I shall treasure for the rest of my days" said Len Hutton, when presented with a gold medal, a gift from 20 London students from Trinidad (plus one young man from Jamaica) in recognition of Hutton's leadership of the M.C.C. against West Indies teams on last winter's tour. Mr. J. M. H. Francis, a law student, and son…
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuter): Mr. Sidney Krandall, or Detroit, Mitchigan, already owns a diamond mine in Brazil but…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Miners Buried By Rubble 1 KILLED, 4 HURT
SYDNEY, Friday.—One miner was killed and four others injured under a fall of two tons of rubble at Oakdale State Mine, Burragorang Valley, today…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday. —A miner was killed to-day when a half-ton steel girder crashed on him at…
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LONDON, Wednesday—Two cases containing gold bullion worth £46,000 sterling were stolen in a daring daylight…
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BRISBANE, Friday. —An urgent warning to ships at sea was issued tonight following the sighting of a mine…
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BALLINA, Sunday. — The funeral of the late Mr. James Albert Hedley, of Bentinck Street, Ballina, took place…
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Officials of the Railway Department visited Lismore to examine claims by the gas engineer, Mr. A. Bianchetto,…
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BRISBANE, Wednesday.—Seven miners were killed and two injured after they were engulfed by an inrush of poison gas at the Collinsville State Mine tonight…
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MOSCOW, Thursday. —Lydia Ivanova has been presented with the gold medal of the Soviet Agricultural Show…
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SYDNEY, Thursday. — Hundreds of tons of coal almost buried a surveyor alive today when a goods train was…
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BRISBANE, Thursday.—A mass funeral was conducted today for the seven men who died in the Collinsville mine disaster yesterday. All shops and offices…
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The coal reserves of China have lately been revised at 309,610 million tons, standing fourth among the nations of the world, and constituting nearly four per cent, of the world total. These figures are given in a comprehensive review of the lignite (brown coal) industry of two…
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BRISBANE, Friday.—The Government will allow Miners' Union top safety officer, Jack Barrett, to inspect the Collinsville State coal mine…
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BRISBANE, Sunday.—Work has been suspended indefinitely at the Collinsville State coal mine, where seven…
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BRISBANE, Monday.—A request by miners for an open inquiry into the Collinsville mine disaster would…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Development of Slate coal mines will absorb £400,000 this financial yea r, the Premier, Mr. J. Cahill announced today. Introducing the 1954-55…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Geologists were not very optimisaic of finding oil in Australia, and extraction of oil…
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