Gold Output
CANBERRA, Monday: Production of gold in Australia during November. 1948 was 76,846 fine ounces, valued at £827,055…
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U.k. Miners to Fight Communism
LONDON, Monday (A.A.P.): The Yorkshire area of the National Union of Mineworkers decided yesterday by an…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Goods Traffic Restrictions Due to Coal Shortage
Restrictions on the despatch of goods from the Leeton railway goods sheds, imposed since last Wednesday as a result of the coal shortage due…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Big Company Takes Over Carpathia Hills Developments at Ardlethan Tin Mines
Rumors long current of developments at the Ardlethan Tin Mines have crystalised by the reliable reports that Austral Malay…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Robbery at Argalong Mine
Following on a reported robbery at the Argalong Mining between December 24 and January 1. when a magneto and a quantity of food…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Robbery at Argalong Mine
Following a reported robbery at Argalong mine, police enquiries resulted in the arrest of two local men who will appear…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Move to Prevent Big Coal Strike
SYDNEY, Wednesday: Miners' Federation leaders are seeking an immediate conference with the F.E.D.F.A. to try to settle…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners Work But Coal Not Handled
New South Wales miners worked on Monday at treble-time rates and produced 49,000 tons of coal. More than 1,400 N.S.W. railway men at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mobile Library for Mining Centres
THIS MOBILE LIBRARY will serve mining towns between Helensburg and Wollongong. It will carry 4000 books. The library…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ardlethan Expected to Boom If Mining Company Reopens Old Tinfield Results of Tests Ready Soon
Ardlethan is a potential tin mining "boom town." A Malayan tin mining company—one of the largest firms in the East—is now fully investigating mining prospects at the almost-abandoned tinfield, four miles from Ardlethan…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →District Minor Cricket Premiership Goes to Brungle Hogan Gold Cup Semi Finals Set Down For Sunday Next
Brungle are the minor premiers in the district first grade cricket competition, the last round of which was completed yesterday. The semi finals will commence next Sunday, with Brungle meeting Coolac and Kimovale playing Gundagai…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Tomato Patch Disappears Down Mine Shaft
At Temora, Mrs. A. Bartel, who resides in Polaris street, heard a rumbling noise in the backyard of her home and found that the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →No Coal to Keep Big Steelworks Going; Wide Unemployment Feared
SYDNEY, Wednesday: All the Joint Coal Board could do at present was to give the B.H.P. sufficient coal to allow it to close down its works with the least possible damage to its plant, a spokesman for the board said tonight. HE was commenting on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Newcastle Some Miners Reject Terms Bat Burwood Resumed
NEWCASTLE, Friday—Miners at two or three B.H.P. striking pits today rejected the terms of settlement offered by the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Production Now Unlikely to be Held Up
NEWCASTLE, Thursday: No hold-up of three B.H.P. collieries is expected tomorrow, following a decision tonight by the merger committee to recommend a resumption of work…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Race Club Trying to Replace Stolen Gold Cup
MELBOURNE; Thursday: The Mornington Race Club is endeavoring to have another gold cup made to replace the one stolen from an Elizabeth Street sports store yesterday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"Action" If B.H.P. Miners Don't Resume Steel Hold-up May Affect 175,000 Building Workers
SYDNEY, Friday: The Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. Gallagher) today threatened to "take action" if the striking miners at two B.H.P. pits—Lambton and John Darling—do not resume work on Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Brown Coal in N. Territory?
DARWIN, Sunday: The Mines Department of the Northern Territory may sink a shaft at Eva Downs, to the Barkly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners Return to Work at Newcastle
NEWCASTLE, Monday: The strike at the B.H.P's. coal mines ended this morning when the miners, at pit-top meetings, decided…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Temora Tomato Patch Disappears Down Mine Shaft
At Temora Mrs A. Bartell heard a rumbling noise in the backyard of her home and found that the tomato garden had disapeared, and…
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