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COAL MINING DISPUTE CONFERENCE ADJOURNS SYDNEY, Aug. 21. After a conference with the south coast coalowners, the leaders of the miners said that serious trouble in the coal mining industry of New South Wales had not yet been averted. They claimed that the owners had adopted a " surprisingly adamant attitude" on the question of granting further concessions. The conference r.diourned till next week. Retailers of coal are already charging from Is to 2s a ton increase in anticipation of an advance in the wholesale prices. ARMED ROB3ERY IN BALMAIN THREE YOUNG MEN ARRESTED SYDNEY. Aug. 22. (Received Aug. 23, at 0.15 a.m.) Three masked and armed young men entered a bakery at Balmayn last night. They felled the manager. Mr Eric Morgan, obtained the keys of the safe, and were proceeding to obtain money when Morgan, who had feigned unconsciousness, hurried unnoticed for the police, four of whom rushed back to the bakery just in time to see the robbers compelling another employee to drive them away in a motor lorry. The police called on the men to surrender and remove their masks. All were arrested and £ 200 in notes was recovered.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23277, 23 August 1937, Page 9
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