Mine-laying
LONDON, Monday: Between September 3, 1939, and May 8, 1945, ships of the Royal Navy, Merchant Navy and of Allied…
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Train Services May Be Rationed for Coal
Because of diminishing stocks of coal there was a possibility of the train services being rationed in New South Wales, said the Minister for…
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SYDNEY, Monday: Electricity rationing may be postponed indefinitely if supplies of coal continue, to arrive at Bunnerong Power…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →History of the Adelong Goldfields (Article 49)
And so the dull, heartbreaking toil of the partners on their mine continued. Day after day, week after week, with nothing to sustain…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Improvement in Coal Position
SYDNEY, Friday: The coal position had greatly improved, the Acting Premier (Mr. Baddeley) stated to-day and personally he…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fall of Coal Kills Miner Aberdare Tragedy
SYDNEY, Friday:. A coal fall from the roof of Aberdare Colliery, Cessnock, to-day killed Richard Sneddon, aged 39, Ernest…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal and Electricity Rationing People's Big Responsibility
SYDNEY, Sunday: Consumers had a big responsibility in helping to stave off the threatened cost and electricity rationing, the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sweden Wants to Sell More Newsprint Coal Difficulty
STOCKHOLM Sunday: "Sweden would like to export newsprint to the United States this year but cannot; and it is…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners' Conference
SYDNEY, Mon.: The Miners' Federation is considering sending a representative to the world conference of mining unions to c[?]en…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Tennis Balls Helped to Beat the Magnetic Mine How English Scientists got the Advantage Over Hitler
Tennis balls to the number of 23,000,000, the entire wartime output of the United Kingdom, were used by British scientists to defeat the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rugby League Eric Weissel Gold Cup
The draw for the Eric Welssel Gold Cup competition is as follows: Cowra. July 8; Barmedman. July 15; Gun-dagai, July 22; Tcmora, July 29;…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Tennis Balls v Magnetic Mines
A British rubber company early in the war appealed to, to solve a problem threatening the successful âsweeping of magnetic mines.â Cables…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →History of the Adelong Goldfields (Article 50)
Christmas week on the claim was a very mixed one for the partners. It seas a week of jollification and a week of slogging hard work. But…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tennis Balls Helped Beat Magnetic Mine How English Scientists Got Advantage Over Hitler
Twenty-three million tennis last the entire war-time output of the United Kingdom, were used by British scientists to defeat the German…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →History of the Adelong Goldfields (Article 51)
That New Year's Eve party was a wow. It carried on until daylight, by which time, in ordinary circumstances, the crew would have…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Weissel Gold Cup
In a match for the Weissel Gold Cup on Sunday, Cowra defeated Harden-Murrumburrah by 7…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Chinese Gains Wolfram Mining Centre Recaptured
CHUNGKING, Tuesday: The Chinese have recaptured Tayu in the heart of the wolfram mining region of Kwangsi Province, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Smell on a Gundagai Hillside Dead Horses Thrown Down Old Mine Shafts
Gundagai’s Health Inspector, Frank McFee, has smelt many a smell in his work on health matters, but the terrific odour that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →History of the Adelong Gold-fields (Article 52)
In the preceding instalment mention was made at length of Tom Hurley's experience coming from Reedy Flat. Certainly he had…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Berliners Must Remain in Zones Coal Now Arriving: Food Convoys Soon
LONDON Sunday, (A.A.P.) British and American authorities yesterday took official steps to "freeze" the distribution of the…
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