Wagga Trains Revised Railway Timetable Owing to Coal Strike
Curtailment of the train services has been found necessary owing to the coal strike. The timetable given below will operate until further notice…
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Wagga's Coal Supply
The Wagga municipal council's engineer (Mr. H. J. Chaston) said yesterday that council had now received one truck of coal since the ending of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mine-sweeping in South African Waters
SHIPS opening out in Table Bay to take up positions for mine sweeping. They are in peace-time engaged in fishing. Block by courtesy Commonwealth Dept. of Information…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gold From Balkans May Be Sent to America Athens
It is reported that the Jugoslav and Rumanian Government are arranging to send their gold reserves to America…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Britain’s Biggest Colliery To Send Up 400 Tons of Coal an Hour
By midsummer four hundred tons of coal an hour will be coming up from a new colliery about to be opened al Comrie in Fifeshire, to meet the overseas demand…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Greyhound Racing Green and Gold Downs Ethel Wyn on Wet Track Kagal's Choice and Golden Opportunity Also Impressive
Study rain began to fair about [?]o'clock on Wednesday night, an continued throughout the greater part of the Narandera Greyhound Racing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gold Production Bill Grants to States Canberra
Reverting to a policy adopted during the last war, the Federal Government has decided to take important steps to encourage gold production in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Stay-in Strike at North Wallarah Colliery Sydney
A stay-in strike was to-day staged by 70 miners in the North Wallarah colliery, which was the scene of Australia's first sit-down strike some years…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Stay-in Strike Miners Return to Surface Newcastle
The stay-in strikers at North Wallarah colliery returned to the surface to-night, making one of the shortest stay-in strikes to be recorded on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners Warned If Hold-up Continues Hearing of Claims May be Suspended SYDNEY
The Chief Judge in the Federal Arbitration Court (Sir George Beeby) warned that he would suspend the present hearing of the claims by the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Insurance Against Strikes
SYDNEY, Friday. According to the Coal Advisory Board appointed by the State Government to supervise the distribution of coal supplies during…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Britain's Biggest Colliery to Send Up 400 Tons of Coal an Hour
By midsummer 400 tons of coal an liery about to be opened at Coinrie, liery about li be opened at Coniric, in Fifeshire, to meet the overseas…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Trades Union Panel Miners' Federation Aloof Sydney
Taking the attitude that the Prime Minister (Mr. Menries) had been discourteous in not issuing an invitation to it to discuss the formation of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gold Nugget for Mayor's Patriotic Fund
An interesting and valuable gift to the Wagga Mayor's Patriotic and Comforts Fund has Just been made by Mr. B. J. Thomson, of Forest Hill,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Magnetic Mines English Experts' Dangerous Task Value of "D.g." Equipment
At 2.30 a.m. on November 23, a mine was washed up on a south of England beach and was photographed by flashlight. Two hours later a party…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Italians at Broken Hill Not Allowed in Mines Broken Hill
Approximately 200 Italians employed at the mines were not permitted to go underground to-day. This action was taken by the managements following…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hold-up at Colliery
WOLLONGONG, Thursday: The Corrimal colliery was idle yesterday. The men held a pit-top meeting to consider whether they would continue…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Italian Miners Dismissed
MELBOURNE Friday: The services of Italian miners at the Central Nell Gwynne Mine were dispensed with yesterday after other miners at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Italian Miners Dismissed Melbourne
The services of Italian miners at the Central Nell Gwynne Mine were dispensed with to-day after other miners at Bendigo had told the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Petrol and Oil From Coal
SYDNEY, Friday: The Associated Motor Transport of New South Wales forwarded a letter to the Prime Minister, Mr. Menzies, in support of the…
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