Rain Effects Attendance at Blue and Gold Ball
Members of the Coonabarabran C.W.A. Younger Set were extremely unlucky this year with their blue and sold ball, heavy…
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Mining & the mines, 1948
93 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 3 of 5
Proposal For Trangie In Same Week As Narromine Gold [?]
It was decided to apply for racing dates on the [?]ing the Narromine Gold Cup meeting in October [?]ing of the Trangie District and Diggers' Racing [?] evening. The president, Mr. A. K. Butter, was in the [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Carrying Coal to Lithgow
Lithgow Mercury stated that domestic coal supplies are rapidly nearing a serious stage and predicts that if the winter…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gales Delay Delivery of Coal
MELBOURNE, Tuesday. Gales off the Victorian coast yesterday have forced three colliers carrying urgently needed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Drastic Cuts in Rail Services Miners Hold Country to Ransom
Further evidence of the strangle hold unions have over the country is the necessity for drastic cuts in railway services in all parts, due to the coal shortage…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Western Miners Restive
A mass meeting of western coalfield miners to be held at Lithgow on Monday may lead to another serious threat to coal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →30,000 Tons of Coal Lost This Week Sydney
It is unlikely that coal cuts will be lifted before the winter is almost over it the present rate of production is not…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Narromine Gold Cup Races On Again
Last night [?] general meeting of the [?] Turf Club [?] Wednesday and [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Huge Units Go by Road to Ease Coal Crisis in South Australia
Prompt action has been taken by the South Australian Government to cope with the coal crisis. Two giant earth-movers, called Le Tourneau…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Nationalisation of Coal
Melbourne.—A meeting of interstate executive of the A.C.T.U. yesterday Issued a declaration that coal resources should be…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Narromine Gold Cup Races On Again in October
At the annual general meeting of the Narromine Turf Club at the Federal Hotel on Monday night it was decided to race on October 13 and 14. Wednesday and Thursday were chosen because under the restricted train services there will be a mail train arriving on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →District News Narromine Gold Cup Races
The Narromine Turf Club has decided to apply for Wednesday and Thursday, October 13 and 14 for the Gold Cup Race. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Basic Wage" for Broken Hill Miners Arouses Resentment. Broken Hill
An announcement that in August the "basic wage" for Broken Hill miners would rise to £16/16/6 a week has…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gold Find Near Nundle
At Tamworth a rich gold bearing reef has been found by a Finnish prospector, near Nundle, about 37 miles from Tamworth. The find…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Shortage Reduces Clothes Output
Because of the coal shortage, Wellington tailors were this week advised by the Australian Woollen Mills,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →[?]Nists Control Industry Through Coal
Stoppages at five northern collieries, and subsequent disputes in the coal industry, have inflicted drastic gas rationing on much…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mining Trouble
Sydney, Friday.—The Federal and State Governments have been informed of the decision by the Central Council of the Miners…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Terrorists Attack Tin Mines Singapore
Communists attacked the Buditin mines in the Trengganu State, Central Malaya, on Wednesday night, a report from…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Blue and Gold Ball Successful Function
On Wednesday night of last week the local CWA and Younger Set combined held their annual ball, and the function was well…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Increased Coal Allocation . . . for Wheat Transport
The Minister for Agriculture (Hon. E. H. Graham, M.L.A.) said to-day that the Joint Coal Board had promised to make an additional allocation of 1,000 tons of coal weekly available to the New South Wales Railways to be…
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