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Mining & the mines, 1946

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No Benefit to Coal Output Nationalisation Criticised Our Staff Correspondent

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 1 January 1946 · page 3

LONDON, Dec. 31.—No one in the British coal industry believes that nationalisation will result in an increased output of coal, said Mr…

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Entombed Miners Abandoned

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 2 January 1946 · page 1

NEW YORK, Jan. 1 (A.A.P.).— Hope of saving the remaining miners entombed at Pineville, Kentucky, has been abandoned, and the pit mouth…

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Stoppage Threatened by Colliery Staff Workers

The Sun · Wednesday 2 January 1946 · page 1

Though coal miners are due to resume work on Monday, threat of another stoppage has been raised by dissatisfaction among members of the Colliery Staff Association. It was announced in Newcastle…

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Gold Find In City's Main Street

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 2 January 1946 · page 4

NEW YORK, Tuesday.--Gold was discovered yesterday under the main street of Helena, capital of Montana…

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France Lacks Coal Supplies

Daily Mirror · Thursday 3 January 1946 · page 3

PARIS.-- First coal the French have seen for a long time is being swallowed up by the black market, where it is…

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Strike Hangover Wont Be Ended by Coal Supplies

The Sun · Thursday 3 January 1946 · page 5

Indications on the coalfields today were that there would be a full resumption of work on Monday at most of the 140 coalmines in NSW, but metal industries will take a long time to recover from the strike…

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Dealer Gets Mine Months

Daily Mirror · Friday 4 January 1946 · page 7

Convicted in the Special Federal Court today under the Black Marketing Act, Vincent Guiliano (53), manager of C. L…

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Coal Demand Exceeds Production

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 January 1946 · page 1

Coal reserves cannot be built up without rationing, according to production and consumption estimates revealed…

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The Sequestration of the Sarre Mines

Le Courrier Australien · Friday 4 January 1946 · page 2

The French military government, in their German zone of occupation, announced on the 24th December that the mines in the Sarre were placed under French sequestration. This coincided with a request by the Belgian Committee of the Rhine…

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Mine Deputies

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 January 1946 · page 11

Al the examination for Certificates of ComPetency as deputy, held under the provisions of the Coal Mines Regulation Act, 1912-1941. at the Technical College, Islington. Newcastle,…

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Deaths Due to Coal Shortage

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 January 1946 · page 3

The opinion that, indirectly, the restrictions resulting from the coal shortage had killed a number of people because hospital admissions had…

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Miners Levied to Help Finance N.z. Newspaper

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 January 1946 · page 2

WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Saturday.-- A compulsory levy to help finance the new Labor daily newspaper, Southern Cross, to commence…

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Miners Levied to Help Finance N.z. Newspaper

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 January 1946 · page 2

WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Saturday.-- A compulsory levy to help finance the new Labor daily newspaper, Southern Cross, to commence…

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Miners Levied to Help Finance N.z. Newspaper

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 January 1946 · page 2

WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Saturday.-- A compulsory levy to help finance the new Labor daily newspaper, Southern Cross, to commence publishing next March has been made…

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Miners Levied to Help Finance N.z. Newspaper

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 January 1946 · page 2

WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Saturday.-- A compulsory levy to help finance the new Labor daily newspaper, Southern Cross, to commence…

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Coal Strike Threatens Early This Year Moderates v. "REDS"

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 5 January 1946 · page 1

PROSPECTS of another miners' strike early in the New Year ore being freely canvassed on the coalfields. WHILE official ALP branches are organising to prevent any…

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Coal Prospects in 1946 Will 5-Year-Plan Bring Peace?

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 5 January 1946 · page 15

IF a five-year plan of government-controlled distribution of coal will bring uninterrupted…

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Mine Perished in Texas Tornado

Truth · Sunday 6 January 1946 · page 19

DALLAS (Texas), Saturday.—Nine people are known to have perished in a tornado which swept over a wide area of Texas last night. Scores were injured. Seven of the victims were killed in…

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He May Dig Gold

Truth · Sunday 6 January 1946 · page 4

Gold Digger, a runner in the first division of the Sylvania Welter Handicap, made his Sydney debut yesterday. He didn't do anything out…

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Work as reward for Gold Taj

The Sun · Sunday 6 January 1946 · page 14

Gold Taj has raced herself into more hard work. It was intended to spell her after the Nursery…

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