No Need to Open Up New Coal Mines Wastage Op Valuable Commodity Likely
The opinion that there was no necessity whatever for the state of Commonwealth to develop further coalfields was expressed by Mr. Vincent…
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Mining & the mines, 1947
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Steamer Strikes Mine
ATHENS.—It is officially announced that rescue ships have picked up and landed about 200 survivors from the Liner Shimaoor, which sank on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ship Hits Mine LONDON, Tuesday (A.A.P.)
Rescue ships have so far picked up and landed about 280 survivors from the Greek ship Chimarra, which struck a mine and sank on,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Old Gold Miners Tell of Boom Days
Stories of gold miners who made £1000 in a week and of others less lucky were recalled when 300 veterans of the Major's Creek and Araluen…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Queanbeyan Tennis Championships Rocavert Takes 1947 Freebody Gold Cup Locals Do Well
After a lapse of eight years, owing to the war the Queanbeyan Park Tennis Club held their annual championships on Anniversary week…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal Big Factor In Motor Production
When it is mentioned that on the average it takes about six t[?]ns of coal to make one and three-quarter tons of automobile, it will be seen…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Crisis in Britain Acute Position for Next Twelve Months LONDON, Tuesday (A.A.P.)
Prime Minister Attlee told the House of Commons that the country should have been able to get through the winter if the winter…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Latest Cable News Coal Position Improving in Frozen Britain
LONDON.—Miners, dockers, seamen and Railwaymen working through the week-end have kept coal rolling across Britain from pits to power stations…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Another Coal Strike?
Rank and file proposals for a general coal strike are being debated in Sydney today by the Central Executive of the Miners' Federation, which…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Miners at Work
Only nine mines are ideal in N.S.W. today, the remaining 127 pits, which stopped for yesterday's aggregate meetings, having resumed production…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New Coal Mines Bill
Amendments to be made to the Coal Mines Regulation Bill now before the State Parliament will take away from the Minister for Mines many powers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Convictions Upheld Lewis and Mine Workers WASHINGTON, Friday, (A.A.P.)
The Supreme Court upheld the contempt of court conviction against John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers, but ordered the three and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Ministers Shot Spanish Police Allege Communist Plot VALENCIA, Friday (A.A.P)
Nine coalminers were shot dead when police discovered what they called a Communist plot to dynamite the power plant in Utrilla…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →U.S. Mine Disaster 82 Hopelessly Entombed New York, Friday (A.A.P.)
Sixteen more bodies, all mutilated by the explosion which occurred on Tuesday, were recovered from the Wemac soft coal mine near…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Narrow Escape at Mine Head Gantry Crashes Over Worker
An employee at the Captain's Flat Mines, J. Lethongen, a painter, narrowly escaped death when a three-ton grantry crashed over him…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Local and General the Gold Fever
In reminiscent mood Mr. Ted Kain, who came from Paddington to attend his borther's funeral on Sunday, referred to the time many years ago…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Blue and Gold Ball
The Blue and Gold Ball to be held on Thursday 15th May in the Star Theatre promises to be the most outstanding success of the season…
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Arrangements have now been completed for wheat we exceed to be the most successful ball of the season the Blue and Gold Ball on May 15…
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The Star Theatre, Queanbeyan, presented a gay appearance last night when the Blue and Gold Ball was held. The attendance was well…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Notes and News Major's Creek Mines
During the last week a couple of (representatives of the Broken Hill Proprietary have been engaged inspecting a number of the old mining…
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