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329 stories in Riverina's papers · page 11 of 17
LONDON, Wednesday — Hopes of saving more than 60 miners entombed behind a 1000 yard thick well on collapsed workings in Easington Colliery, Durham, had practically gone last night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Australia should be able to mobilise her resources to meet the threat of Communist aggression without recourse to Socialist…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Wednesday: About 85 per cent, of N.S.W. miners worked 10 shifts during the fortnight ended May 18 and qualified…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Some improvement in the U.K. coal situation is indicated in the latest figures. So far recorded, the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Thursday — Hope has been officially abandoned for the 60 miners entombed by thousands of tons of rubble in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, Wednesday: Hopes of saving more than 60 miners entombed behind a thousand yard thick wall following an explosion early yesterday morning in the Easington Colliery, Durham, were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →No additional trains will be available either before or after the King's Birthday holiday on Monday, June 11…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SYDNEY, Friday: The Central Executive of the Miners' Federation today urged miners throughout Australit to hold pit-top meetings on Tuesday to proest against the prosecution of trade union officials. Members of the Ironworkers' Association have also been asked to hold…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →GOULBURN, Friday: Special gangs are hosing out coal bins at Goulburn railway yards to get enough fuel to keep trains…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Special gangs were employed on Friday last hosing out coal bins at Goulburn railway yards to get enough fuel to keep trains running…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Monday: The State Public Solicitor (Mr. B. W. Hawkins) left Sydney to-day to visit a disused mineshaft…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The coal shortage is so acute that men at Goulburn Loco have had to wash out the coal bins in an endeavour to obtain sufficient fuel to keep train services running. When bins are hosed out it allows use of the few tons of coal which will…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WEST WYALONG, Tuesday: After visiting an abandoned mine shaft near West Wyalong today…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Wed.: Miners at six collieries on the Southern N.S.W. fields stopped work today as a protest against the shortage of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Thursday: The Central Executive of the Miners' Federation today congratulated Southern District…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Friday: Representatives of four coalmining unions today called upon the Federal Government to fulfil its promise to amend the Coal Industry Act. They decided to "warn the Government that chaos may exist in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Output of coal from U.K. deep mines in 1950 amounted to just over 204 million tons, about 16 million tons more than in 1949 though manpower…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The N.S.W. Housing Commission will soon begin erecting 100 prefabricated houses on the northern coalfields, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A new coalfield capable of producing a million tons a year for at least fifty years has been found in South Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Output of coal from U.K. deep mines in 1950 amounted to just over 204 million tons, about 11 million tons more than in 1949…
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