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Riverina · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1944

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Mining Prosecution Magistrate to Inspect Tunnel

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 19 September 1944 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.: Mr. Atkinson, S.M., tomorrow will descend the Bulli Colliery to help him decide intricate legal submissions in…

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Warden's Court Wednesday, September 18 (Before Mr. H. L. Sargeaon, Warden) Mining Gypsum

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 19 September 1944 · page 1

Duncan Fraser Smith Twaddell, application for suspension of labour, conditions on P.L.L. parish Wyamgan…

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Coal Supplies Position Still Critical

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 20 September 1944 · page 2

CANBERRA, Tuesday: No possibility of any relaxation of the present restrictions on the use of coal before Christmas can be seen…

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Awards Varied Effect of Coal Rationing

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 21 September 1944 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Fifty' awards were varied by the Full Bench of the industrial Commission to-day to allow employers to…

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Miners' Groups?

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 22 September 1944 · page 2

"The Cootamundra Herald's" leader last Friday urging miners to form their own groups to work together, has drawn a letter from the secretary of…

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Wharf Dispute Engineers Strike Idle Mines

Daily Advertiser · Friday 22 September 1944 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday: As a protest against an instruction on absenteeism, issued by the Stevedoring Industry Commission more…

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The History of the Adelong Goldfield [ARTICLE 12]

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 22 September 1944 · page 1

Some of the best stories connected with the old Adelong goldfield have come down from generation to generation, and cannot be verified in any way, but there are several exceptions to this general rule, and those stories are…

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Two Mines Idle Port Kembla Strike Extends

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 26 September 1944 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: Two coalmines are on strike to-day, resulting in the loss of 1300 tons in coal production…

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Six Mines Idle

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 27 September 1944 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Six N.S.W. mines were idle to-day for a coal production loss of 8350 tons. This was the biggest daily drop in…

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Seven Mines Idle

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 28 September 1944 · page 1

SYDNEY Wednesday: About 7000 tons of coal production was lost today when seven N.S.W. mines were idle. The…

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Minors and Miners Alleged Ministerial Discrimination

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 28 September 1944 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Mr. R. C. Dixon. of Castle Hill whose son is one of the four Geelong Grammar School boys to be…

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CORRESPONDENCE (To the Editor.) Those Miners Groups!

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 29 September 1944 · page 4

Sir: Your leading articles re the above, recently published in "The Cootamundra Herald," are certainly worthy of sincere consideration, not…

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COPYRIGHT : All Rights Reserved. The History of the Adelong Goldfield [ARTICLE 13]

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 29 September 1944 · page 1

Now comes a story, not about the goldfield, but so interwoven with the fie d and Adelong, Tumut and Gundagai districts that it simply must be included in these series. It is the story of a little family joke that developed into a…

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Double Pat for Miners Yesterday

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 3 October 1944 · page 2

SYDNEY. Monday: It cost the Commonwealth Treasury about £3750 In extra payment for miners to work on the southern…

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Prevention of Mine Diseases Successful Experiments at Coalcliff

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 3 October 1944 · page 2

SYDNEY. Monday: Experiments which it is believed will revolutionise the prevention of occupational diseases in coal mines have…

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Ills of Taxation Coal Miners' Tax "Slug"

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 4 October 1944 · page 4

Blame for Australia's deplorable position today, with restricted services inconveniencing the public, as well as…

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Wheeler Killed Crushed by Fall of Stone in Colliery

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 4 October 1944 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Robert Garbutt, 21, wheeler, was fatally crushed in a fall of stone at Burwood Colliery to-day. As is…

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Idle Miners

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 5 October 1944 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Nine collieries were idle or partly idle to-day, resulting in a production loss of 10.000 tons. Mishaps…

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The Coal Miners' Tax "Slu[?]

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 6 October 1944 · page 5

Blame for Australia's deplorable position today, with restricted services inconveniencing the public, as well as interfering with the war effort, is…

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Idle Miners

Daily Advertiser · Friday 6 October 1944 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday: For the fourth time since the Government assumed control, Coalcliff colliery was idle to-day. The Coal…

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