Small Loss on Gold Shipments
Losses on gold shipments from Britain to America from the outbreak of war until VE-Day amounted to only 1 per £100, of 0.05 p.c…
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Loss of 5800 Tons in Five Mine Stoppages
COAL production, estimated at 5800 tons, has been lost because of stoppages at Bellbird. Hebburn No. 1, and Wallarah collieries, in the north…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rail Priorities Go From Sunday Coal Stocks Still Low
MELBOURNE, Monday.—The rail travel priority system will cease to operate from next Sunday. This was announced by the Federal Minister for Transport,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mining Town
Dear Worker,—This is my first letter to your interesting Page, which I enjoy reading every week. My father has been taking The…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Coal Loss 2200 Tons
FOR the first time since June 26, all mines in the south and west are working today. Three northern mines are idle: Hebburn No. 1, Burwood…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Mt. Bischoff Tin Mine. Commonwealth Venture
The Federal Cabinet last week decided that the Mt. Bischoff Tin Mine, Tasmania, would continue to operate as…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pit Ponies 3 Minutes Late, Miners Strike
Miners at the Hebburn No. 2 Colliery struck yesterday because the braceman, in charge of the pit ponies, was three minutes late for work. Hebburn No. 2, which is on…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Only Two Mines Idle
FOR the second time this week all mines in the south and west are working, and only two northern mines. Hebburn No. 1 and Rhondda…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Mine Inside The Mountain
BENEATH the timbered mountains lies the Tyldesley Mine, a roadway leading right up to it. Here there are a few shacks, and further out the small township, with its tin shed picture show, open once a week. You walk straight into the montain…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →W.a. Mines Seek Help
PERTH, Wednesday.—The Prime Minister, Mr. Chifley told a deputation yesterday he would sympathetically consider requests…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Gold Company to Liquidate
Bright Valley Gold Estates, N.L., showed a loss of £56 for the year ended June 30 last. There was also a loss of £14,481 on realisation of assets…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Quiz on the New Era Atoms may not replace coal this century They outmode all war weapons, they make artificial weather possible, and may defrost the Arctic. But
LONDON, Wednesday. -- The atom can easily be man's master; it is still a long way from being…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Only Four Mines Idle
FOR the third day this week, all southern and western mines are working, but four northern pits, Neath. Abermain No. 2. Elrington…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Penalty Urged For Coal Disruptors
Reluctance or inability to punish defaulters was responsible for the failure of the Canberra Code to bring peace to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →From Gold to the Golden Fleece
Production of the "golden fleece" now takes the place of gold on this property in the Bathurst district. In the foreground are the relics of diggings for alluvial gold on what is now the Merino Stud property of Mr. A.R. Pratley, Wwnah, peel, near Bathurst. The woolshed…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Vanished Gold
Remembering how much I have loved the sun. The light that fills the [?]iniest of flowers…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Star Gold Not Tor Cameron Mouth Abscess Ends Cordale Cup Hopes
NEWCASTLE, Friday.--Because of his wide barrier position (No. 21), Star Gold, one of the fancied candidates for tomorrow's Cameron Handicap, will not start…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →'These cobbers of mine are explosive'
Revealing the mind of the "browned off" returned serviceman . . . For years he's been living by direct, action, is now dangerously ready to go in and TAKE what he wants…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →26 Coal Mines Closed by Strike Gas Rationing Threat If Dispute Unsettled
CESS NOCK, Sunday.--Coal production at 26 mines on the South Maitland fields ceased at 11 o'clock tonight because of a decision of the South Maitland Deputies' Association to call a general strike of its…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Opera Costumes in Mine
LONDON, Monday. -- Luxembourg Radio reports that 150,000 opera costumes from Berlin were found in a salt mine in Germany, together with…
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