"Quake" at Lithgow Homes Crack as Mine Sinks
LITHGOW, Friday: Damage estimated at thousands of pounds was caused to homes in the Vale of Clwydd area of Lithgow today when there were extensive falls in the old…
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Coal Strike in South Averted
WOLLONGONG, Sunday: The threatened stoppage of southern mines was averted at the ast minute, and aggregate meetings, which…
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It is [?] that liquid heat, a new invention will save coal reduce the cost of cooking and revolutionise domestic heating. It is likely to be…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday: Hopes are held that the Cessnock coal dispute involving members of the Federated Enginedrivers and Firemen's Union,…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday: The General Secretary of the Miners' Union (Mr. Grant) will leave Sydney for New Zealand next Monday to attend the…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday: The State president of the Federated Enginedrivers and Firemen's Association (Mr. H. Sutherland) to-day…
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CANBERRA. Wednesday: Coacliffe colliery, on the South Coa[?]at of New South Wales, which w[?]in)taken cover by the Government[?]…
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SYDNEY, Friday: It is believed that State legislation will be enacted in the first session of the State Parliament for a coal…
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COAL SHORTAGE HITS SYDNEY.—Bunnerong power house, which supplies Sydney with electricity, has no coal reserves. The largest sheet of water In the foreground covers ground which normally would be stacked many feet high with coal. Daily supplies are taken straight to the hoppers…
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SYDNEY, Monday: If production is maintained at last Friday's rate, there is no fear of a hold-up in the industry in N.S.W. because of coal…
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SYDNEY, Sunday: The decision of the State Government to create a new coal authority to control the State coalmine at Lithgow and new mines to be opened up at Burragorang, Awarba and Greta, is causing…
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LONDON, Monday: The Government, in view of the economic crisis, should declare an emergency situation and take powers to mobilise the nation's resources as was…
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An application for suspension of labor conditions on dredging lease 736, parish Mannus, in the name of C. B. Heinecke, was granted…
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A JUNEE fruit vendor wrote a letter to the editor of the local paper defending his trade and those employed in it, against the accusations…
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SYDNEY, Monday: Because railways can not get enough coal to run special trains, Wyong races [?]uled for June 21 have been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mystery in the Hills a Geological Curiosity Gold Mining Near Leeton
LESS than a dozen miles from Leeton there are Indications that gold prospecting was carried but. In the hills in energetic fashion…
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SYDNEY, Friday: The Joint Coal Board to-day announced that there would be a 20 per cent cut in coal supplies from next…
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The 20 per cent. cut in coal supplies today, to all except essential undertakings, will have no serious effect on industry in Sydney…
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SYDNEY, Sunday: The 20 per cent cut in coal supplies to-morrow to all except essential undertakings will have a serious…
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YESTERDAY the Railway Commissioners cut the South-West mail service by half, to three trains in and three out each…
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