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Mining & the mines, 1944

4,597 stories in Sydney's papers · page 35 of 230

New Order on Mines to Resume

Daily Mirror · Saturday 26 February 1944 · page 2

An "urgent" order to resume work in all mines in southern N.S.W. was issued late yesterday by the Commonwealth…

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Attitude to Miners Is Termed "One-sided"

Daily Mirror · Saturday 26 February 1944 · page 2

WOLLONGONG, Saturday. -- Employees of Metal Manufacturers, Port Kembla, at a mass meeting, carried a resolution protesting against…

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Destroyer Crippled by Mine in Aegean Sea

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 February 1944 · page 11

The Greek destroyer Adrias steaming for Alexandria after her bows had been blown off by a mine in the Aegean Sea. She was formerly the British destroyer H.M.S. Border. (Department of Information Service.)…

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Attitude to Miners Is Termed "One-sided"

Daily Mirror · Saturday 26 February 1944 · page 2

WOLLONGONG, Saturday. -- Employees of Metal Manufacturers, Port Kembla, at a mass meeting, carried a resolution protesting against…

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Miners 'Must Obey' Order To End Strike

The Sun · Saturday 26 February 1944 · page 3

"The order must be obeyed and supersedes any resolution to the contrary carried at any…

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Attitude to Miners Is Termed "One-sided"

Daily Mirror · Saturday 26 February 1944 · page 3

WOLLONGONG, Saturday. -- Employees of Metal Manufacturers, Port Kembla, at a mass meeting, carried a resolution protesting against…

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Attitude to Miners Is Termed "One-sided"

Daily Mirror · Saturday 26 February 1944 · page 3

WOLLONGONG, Saturday. -- Employees of Metal Manufacturers, Port Kembla, at a mass meeting, carried a resolution protesting against…

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South Mines Still Idle New Order by Mr. Mighell

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 February 1944 · page 8

Executives of miners' lodges on the South Coast decided yesterday to reject, the order of the Commonwealth Coal…

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Government may act in coal hold-up; miners' Federal council move

The Sun · Sunday 27 February 1944 · page 3

SWIFT Government action is expected tomorrow in the event of South Coast miners refusing to obey Coal Commissioner Mighell's order to resume work. Last-minute efforts are being made by the Miners' Federation to secure a…

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Miners Again Ordered Back

Truth · Sunday 27 February 1944 · page 17

SOUTH COAST miners who ignored a direction to resume work last Friday, have now been issued by the Commonwealth Coal…

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Money, Mines and Markets

Truth · Sunday 27 February 1944 · page 27

PRICE movements were irregular in patches but generally upward on the Stock Exchange over the past week. Dealings continued to be afflicted by "Treasury arthritis" in the form of Government limitations on selling prices. INTEREST centred on discussions between…

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Miss Sovereign All Gold

Truth · Sunday 27 February 1944 · page 2

SYDNEY'S champion two-year-old filly, Scaur Fel, took the count at Rosehill yesterday when she was decisively beaten in the fillies' race…

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Schedule of Shows "This Land Is Mine"

Truth · Sunday 27 February 1944 · page 24

"THIS Land is Mine"—starring Charles Laughton and Maureen O'Hara, and showing at the Century —is a burning drama of occupied…

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Gold Head proved as blood horse

The Sun · Sunday 27 February 1944 · page 1

NINE quarts of blood were taken from Gold Head a month ago, but he recuperated amazingly to win the…

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Editorial Curtin Proposes a Dictator for Coal

Truth · Sunday 27 February 1944 · page 12

MR. CURTIN, in the House of Representatives last week, said that the Commonwealth's Coal Bill was the "very antithesis of passing the buck." The people may well ask: "What else does this Bill do?"…

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Loss of blood assists Gold Head to easy Rosehill win

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 27 February 1944 · page 10

The good form shown by Gold Head in easily winning the Welter Handicap at Rosehill yesterday was doe to a recent bleeding operation…

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Mine Manager and Men Acquitted

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 February 1944 · page 4

CESSNOCK, Sunday.—Charges against Amos Hindley, manager of Hebburn No. 1 colliery, were dismissed by Mr. Atkinson, P.M.,…

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Jap Writers Work In Mines

The Sun · Monday 28 February 1944 · page 3

NEW YORK, Sunday. -- All members of the Japanese "Literary Men's Association" have taken jobs in factories…

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Industries Act to Conserve Coal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 February 1944 · page 4

WOLLONGONG, Sunday.—To reduce consumption of electricity the rolling mill at Metal Manufacture, Ltd., Port Kembla,…

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New Films "This Land Is Mine"

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 February 1944 · page 3

A very thoughtful and carefully reasoned attempt to reveal the motives of little people somewhere in occupied Europe who…

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