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Mining & the mines, 1941

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Coal Mining Profits Workers' Suspicions

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 8 August 1941 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday: The secretary of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, Mr. Carney, declared that the nationalisation of the coal industry…

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Dutch Seize Coal From French Ship

Daily Advertiser · Friday 8 August 1941 · page 1

BATAVIA. Wednesday—The Indies Navy Department announces that the cargo of coal from the French steamer Dupleix, which was seized…

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Coal Control C'Wealth Commissioner Appointed

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 8 August 1941 · page 1

MELBOURNE. Friday: Drastic regulation designed to give the Commonwealth full and complete power over coal production and distribution…

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Coal Control Commonwealth Commissioner Appointed Wide Powers

Daily Advertiser · Friday 8 August 1941 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Drastic regulations designed to give the Commonwealth full and complete power over coal production and distribution…

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Coal Control Federal Plan Criticised

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 9 August 1941 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday.—In a statement issued to-day the Miners' Federation declared that inadequate discussion had taken place with the federation…

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Coal Commission

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 11 August 1941 · page 1

ADELAIDE, Monday: Executive offers of the new Coal Commission which has been given sweeping powers manage the industry were…

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Coal Commission Given Wide Powers Executive Officers Announced

Daily Advertiser · Monday 11 August 1941 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Saturday.—Executive officers of the new Coal Commission which has been given sweeping powers to manage the industry were…

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Victorian Coal Shortage Committee to Take Control of Distribution

Daily Advertiser · Monday 11 August 1941 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Sunday.—The State Coal Committee has assumed control of the distribution of coal under the National Security Regulations. This…

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Export of Gold Alleged Failure to Notify Authorities

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 12 August 1941 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.—Thomas William Howlett, of Marble Lech (W.A.), was charged at Newtown Police Court to-day with having failed to make…

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Legislative Assembly Factories and Shops Bill Applicable to Petrol Sales Safety in Mines

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 13 August 1941 · page 1

SYDNEY. Tuesday.—The opening and closing times of all shops selling petrol, oil and motor accessories throughout the State were fixed under…

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At the Montreal She's Back in a New Hit: "Gold-Rush Maisie"

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 15 August 1941 · page 4

Ann Sothern, who characterises the stranded show-girl with a whiplash tongue and the heart of gold as no one else can returns to…

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Snake Bite in Mine

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 20 August 1941 · page 1

BRISBANE, Tuesday.—While working 90 feet underground in a gold mine yesterday, Thomas Hussey was bitten on the leg by a black snake. Hussey…

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Sporting Greyhound Racing Tonight's Meeting Eagle Black and Gold Fuschia Meet

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 20 August 1941 · page 4

Two champion dogs, Eagle Black and Gold Fuschia, will clash at the Cootamundra Coursing Club's meeting on Fisher Park tonight…

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Coal for Kasima Maru Men Object to Loading

Daily Advertiser · Friday 22 August 1941 · page 4

BRISBANE, Thursday.—When a call was made for men to load 300 tons of coal for the Japanese liner Kasima Maru to-day a demonstration…

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Gold Salute Injured at Flemington to Rest at Werribee

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 26 August 1941 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Monday.—While working quietly on the sand track at Flemington this morning. Gold Salute slipped and injured a tendon. According to his owner…

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Miners' Bodies Recovered

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 27 August 1941 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesdays The bodies of the two men, Noel Cameron and James Young, who were entombed by a fall of 1500 tons of earth. In the…

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Entombed Miners Rescue Work Continues at Cullen Bullen

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 27 August 1941 · page 4

SYDNEY, Tuesday.-Hope that Noel Cameron, aged 30 years, and James Young, aged 43 years, miners entombed in the tunnel which caved in…

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Entombed Miners Bodies Recovered From Renown Colliery Hard Work by Rescue Workers

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 28 August 1941 · page 2

CULLEN BULLEN, Wednesday.—The bodies of Noel Cameron, aged 30 years, married, of East Portland, and James Young, aged 43, married, of Surry Hills,…

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Idle Mines Minister Urges Resumption of Work

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 28 August 1941 · page 8

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—No work was done in mines on the South Coast to-day, but the Minister for Mines (Mr. Baddeley) is anxious that there…

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Belgian Gold Given by Vichy to Germany

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 28 August 1941 · page 1

NEW YORK, Tuesday (A.A.P.).—Herbert Ansiaux, inspector of the National Bank of Belgium, who left for London by Clipper to-day, said…

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