Fact Feature There's GOLD in the garbage can New process turns refuse to rich plant foods that earn good money
The World's News · Saturday 8 January 1955 · page 13
A NEWLY-DEVELOPED process for turning refuse and garbage into valuable plant food may enable cities to turn their waste materials…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Miners' wives in action
Tribune · Wednesday 12 January 1955 · page 11
NEWCASTLE: Wives of Burwood miners on strike on a safety issue, and women from other organisations set out to…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Miners' Rescue Suits Useless in Disaster
Tribune · Wednesday 12 January 1955 · page 12
Apart from two used on the night of the disaster, rescue suits at Collinsville mine were not fit for an emergency. MR. T. H. ALLAN, shift…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →China's coal reserves are fourth largest in the world
Le Courrier Australien · Friday 14 January 1955 · page 3
The coal reserves of China have lately been estimated tit 309,610 million tons, standing fourth among the nations of the world and constituting nearly 4 per cent, of the world total. These figures are given in a comprehensive review of the lignite (brown coal) industry…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bluff Mine Strike
Tribune · Wednesday 19 January 1955 · page 11
BLUFF (C.Q.). -- Men at Windsor Colliery went on strike over a dispute concerning the working of the dip…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Breakdowns cost big coal losses at Collinsville
Tribune · Wednesday 19 January 1955 · page 12
A constant series of mechanical breakdowns in machines at the Collinsville State coal mine had caused losses of hundreds of tons a week in output. Sometimes breakdowns occurred daily. A Collinsville underground foreman, J. H. Morgan, said this at Bowen last…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →A dis-illusioned prospector knows where there is... A fabulous gold reef in the desert (but he couldn't care less)
The World's News · Saturday 22 January 1955 · page 4
A MAN who claims he knows the location of a fabulous gold reef, said to be Lasseter's "missing" reef, out in the shifting sands of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Moscow Gold" Story Denounced
Tribune · Wednesday 9 February 1955 · page 1
Petrov's story that Mr. L. L. Sharkey was paid 25,000 dollars is a new version of the hoary old "Mosow gold" lie, Mr. Hill…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners' charges against Govt and Coat Board
Tribune · Wednesday 9 February 1955 · page 10
SYDNEY: A spokesman for the Miners' Federation last night charged the State Government and the Joint Coal Board with repudiation of a solemn agreement…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Gold lace put Kenya on map
The World's News · Saturday 12 February 1955 · page 4
ONE of the strangest empire builders of the nineteenth century was a Greek named Zaphiro, who fixed the existing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sees a "blame the miners" campaign on Collinsville
Tribune · Wednesday 16 February 1955 · page 12
"It has started--the (expected 'blame the miner' campaign by managerial officials at Collinsville State mine for the failure of mechanisation to produce the high tonnage anticipated by the authorities."…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Sharkey Wasn't There Petrov's 'gold' tale exploded
Tribune · Wednesday 16 February 1955 · page 1
L.L. Sharkey was at a Central Committee meeting at the time Petrov alleged he was handed 25,000 dollars somewhere else. More than 40 people, newspapers at the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners' Resolution
Tribune · Wednesday 23 February 1955 · page 1
This resolution was carried unanimously by the Central Council of the Miners' Federation. "THE Central Council expresses full confidence in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners back Fed. ALP Executive
Tribune · Wednesday 23 February 1955 · page 11
AT its meeting last week the Central Council of the Miners' Federation reaffirmed its support for the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →'Gold Coast' Honeymoon for Young Businessman and Wife
The Cumberland Argus · Wednesday 23 February 1955 · page 3
A young couple honeymooning at Surfers' Paradise, Queensland, will make their future home at North Ryde. They are Mr. and Mrs. Peter J…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WHEAT More Precious Than Gold
The Broadcaster · Wednesday 2 March 1955 · page 5
For sound reason, wheat has been accurately described since Biblical times as the staff of life." In an extreme situation…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners stop undermining at Lithgow
Tribune · Wednesday 9 March 1955 · page 10
DETERMINED action by the Miners' Federation, supported by the townspeople, has saved a large section of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →"Miners' friends from now on"
Tribune · Wednesday 16 March 1955 · page 6
ONE grateful woman (in Maitland) said: "We won't run the miners down any more. They have been…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →American Eyes on Queensland Mine
Tribune · Wednesday 23 March 1955 · page 9
Collinsville as Queensland s biggest coalmine. A township of 1 2000-odd people depends on if. THE mine has been mechanised at a cost of about £500,000…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Mary Gilmore on miners' 'miracle of conduct' in 1929
Tribune · Tuesday 5 April 1955 · page 7
MARY GILMORE, making good progress at Altona Convalescent Home, Waverley, has always championed the workers…
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