EIGHT MINES IDLE
LOSS OF OUTPUT IN
AUSTRALIA
SERIOUS THREAT TO INDUSTRY
. SYDNEY, Aug. 5. While industry is threatened with paralysis through the stoppage of coal, there have been eight mines idle to-day in New South Wales, for a loss of 7060 tons of output. This webk the railways of New South Wales will withdraw another 2000 trucks front! circulation, making thereby a 35 per cent, cut in the carriage of goods in the metropolitan and. country areas. „ .. Melbourne has been granted a temporary Cessation of its gas restrictions, but the situation is still precarious. ...
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Greymouth Evening Star, 6 August 1946, Page 8
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95EIGHT MINES IDLE Greymouth Evening Star, 6 August 1946, Page 8
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