Coal Chief Denies Cabinet Rebuke
SYDNEY, Wednesday: It was stated today that the Coal Commissioner (Mr. Mighell) was charged in Cabinet yesterday with failure to carry…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1944
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Coal Trouble Government Control Requested
NEWCASTLE, Wednesday: A meeting of the Northern Miners' Board of Management decided today to ask the Commonwealth Government in take…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Economy No Restriction of Gas or Electricity
CANBERRA, Wednesday: A Cabinet sub-committee today approved of coal economics that will curtail industry generally particularly the metal trades and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Shortage Making Supplies Go Round CANBERRA
For the present gas and, electricity will not be rationed in Australia, this was decided by the Federal Cabinet yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Not to Be Rationed Gas and Electricity Miners to be Prosecuted
CANBERRA, Wednesday: For the time being gas and electricity will not be rationed in Australia. This was one of the decisions made by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Seven Mines Idle
SYDNEY, Thursday: Seven mines were idle today in NSW involving a production loss of approximately 5000 tons. bringing the week's total loss to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Crisis Nationalisation Advocated
Nationalisation of the coal mining industry and the immediate revision of the taxation rates to mining employees to remedy the existing acute…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Drastic Coal Law Efforts to Check Irresponsible Stoppages
CANBERRA, Thursday: Anyone who disobeys regulations issued in Canberra today under the Wartime Coal Production Act may be fined £100 and sent…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Reserves Low. Week’s Losses 30,000 Tons SYDNEY
Railway coal reserves were now desperately low that the Railway Department was almost dependent on day to day supplies from the mines…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Legal Action Against Miners
SYDNEY, Friday: Summonses are to be served on 114 miners at Maitland Main Colliery, N.S.W. for failing to work in the mine…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Unionists Main Sufferers Reminder by Miners' Paper
SYDNEY, Friday: A warning to coalminers that the present strikes night endanger relations between the Miners Federation and other unions…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Coal Problem Big Drop in Output
CANBERRA, Friday: NSW coal production had dropped 350,000 tons compared with last year, the Commonwealth Coal Commissioner (Mr. Mighell) told…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Seats Too Wet Another Miners' Strike
The miners are still up to their tricks. According to the Lithgow "Mercury," miners at Hassan's Walls…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Cut in Coal Sydney, This Afternoon
Work was resumed to-day by all northern mines which were idle last week, but there was a stoppage at Abermain…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Move by Uap Debate on Coal Position Sought
SYDNEY, Sunday: A decision to move the adjournment [?] the House of Representatives "as a matter of national urgency" to discuss the Government's…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Mines All Northern Pits Resume
SYDNEY, Monday: Work was resumed at all northern mines idles last week, but there was a stoppage at Abermain, where clippers did not…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Only Two Mines Idle
SYDNEY, Monday: Burwood colliery, which has a daily output of 345 tons, was the only mine idle on the northern field today. Burwood was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal and the Clip a Free France
Winchcombe Carson Ltd. report:—The curtanment in sail transport will cause some delay in the carriage of wool and result in the appraisement of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Undesirables" in Coal Industry Canberra, This Afternoon
The Government is believed to be determined to proceed with its previously announced decision to "wipe out" undesirables from the coal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Govt. Aircraft Plants Not Affecting By Coal Rationing
SYDNEY, Tuesday: Australia's Minister for Aircraft Production (Senator Keane) does not expect that coal rationing [?] affect Government…
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