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Mining & the mines, 1948

4,740 stories in Sydney's papers · page 50 of 237

Gold Deal Charges Ex-Qantas Man In Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 April 1948 · page 4

Augustine Desmond Cahill, a former flight steward with Qantas Empire Airways, was yesterday committed for trial…

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No Production at Eight Coal Mines

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 7 April 1948 · page 5

FOR the third day this week all western mines are working, but six are idle in the north and two in the south, the…

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No Production at Eight Coal Mines

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 7 April 1948 · page 11

FOR the third day this week all western mines are working, but six are idle in the north and two in the south, the…

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No Production at Eight Coal Mines

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 7 April 1948 · page 5

FOR the third day this week all western mines are working, but six are idle in the north and two in the south, the…

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No Production at Eight Coal Mines

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 7 April 1948 · page 5

FOR the third day this week all western mines are working, but six are idle in the north and two in the south, the…

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Eight Mines Idle

The Sun · Wednesday 7 April 1948 · page 2

Eight NSW mines are idle today, seven through strikes, for a coal loss of 6330 tons…

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Bleak (Coal) House

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 April 1948 · page 2

Queensland, Victoria, and South Australia are all planning to develop their own coal resources and thus cut themselves free from the "domination" of New South Wales…

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Ashley Warns Miners Disruptive Strikes

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 7 April 1948 · page 1

The Minister for Supply and Shipping (Senator Ashley) said on Monday that if the miners would not…

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Gold Profit Rises £3400

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 7 April 1948 · page 14

LONDON, Tuesday (A.A.P.).--Golden Horse Shoe (New), Ltd., earned £5602 net profit for the…

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Gold Option at Record Price

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 April 1948 · page 6

PERTH, Tuesday.—Probably the highest price ever given for a goldmining option in Western Australia was paid to Day Dawn…

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Mine Meetings May Be Banned

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 April 1948 · page 1

Because coal shortages have become "increasingly grave," the Joint Coal Board has evolved plans to prevent petty stoppages in mines…

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Mine Meetings May Be Banned

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 April 1948 · page 1

Because coal shortages have become "increasingly grave," the Joint Coal Board has evolved plans to prevent petty stoppages in mines…

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Plan To Keep Mines Working

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 8 April 1948 · page 10

Because of the critical coal position and the need to build up winter stocks the Joint Coal Board last night announced plans to end petty mine…

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New Action To Stop Coal Losses

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 April 1948 · page 1

The Joint Coal Board late last night announced a twofold plan to elimin ate petty stoppages on the…

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A mining town is roaring

The Sun · Thursday 8 April 1948 · page 4

Sticklers for convention are better out of Eaglehawk, a mining town about five miles from Bendigo, because there's no official recognition of births or deaths there just now…

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New plan to end coal pit-top stoppages

The Sun · Thursday 8 April 1948 · page 6

To end pit-top meetings in working hours--a prolific factor in stoppages--the Joint Coal Board proposes to set up mine conciliation committees…

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Stockton Coal To Consider Selling Colliery

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 April 1948 · page 6

Shareholders of Stockton Borehole Collieries Ltd. will be asked at the annual meeting to consider the desirability…

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Stockton to Sell Mine

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 9 April 1948 · page 12

Stockton Borehole Collieries, Ltd., will ask shareholders to consider selling the mine…

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Miners anxious over holidays

The Sun · Friday 9 April 1948 · page 6

Concerned at the Joint Coal Board's application to the Coal Industry Tribunal for a review of the annual holiday…

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4500 -Ton Coal Loss

Daily Mirror · Friday 9 April 1948 · page 1

ALL southern and western mines are working today, but four mines and an open cut are idle in the north…

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