Mechanical Break Stops State Mine
Because of a mechanical breakdown which occurred yesterday afternoon it is believed that the State mine will be idle…
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Mining & the mines, 1947
827 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 16 of 42
Health of Miners Health Bureaux Proposed
SYDNEY, Tuesday: A report submitted by a committee of doctors to the Joint Coal Board proposes the setting up of health bureaux for…
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LITHGOW, Wednesday: A mechanical breakdown at the State coalmine will hold up work indefinitely. The fault is in the ventilation system, and…
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Open cut mines in the western [?]al field are stiff idle while mem[?]rs of the F.E.D. and F.A. are [?]iking for improved wages and…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday: Australia is threatened with a general coal strike in N.S.W. The Engine Drivers and Piremen's Union has been pressing for…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday: Although the present coal strikes are interfering with the production of coal, used for gas making and electricity supplies, there…
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Thirteen mines on the northern coalfields and also six open cut mines, are idle again to-day as a result of the withdrawal of members of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Threat Paralysis Looms In N.S.W. SYDNEY
Next week there may be a complete stoppage in the mines of N.S.W. Members of the Engineers and…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Threatened Another Coal Crisis 28 Mines Idle Yesterday
SYDNEY, Thursday: Twenty eight coal mines were idle in NSW today, find there is a threat of a general coal stoppage throughout the State next…
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Strikes cut N.S.W. coal production in half yesterday from a daily average of 50,000 tons to 25,000 tons…
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SYDNEY, Thursday: Australia was being deprived of steel at the rate of about 300,000 tons a year because of the coal shortage at the Newcastle…
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Reporting on yesterday's survey of miles and coal-mining towns on the Mudgee line, Mr. E. Mara, president of the Western Miners…
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The inevitability of mechanisation and the setting-up of the new Joint Coal Board presaged vital changes in the coalmining…
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SYDNEY, Friday: The secretary of the NSW Colliery Proprietors Association, Mr. R. W. Davies, said to-night the NSW, Victoria and South…
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CANBERRA Friday: The Australian Government is examining the request of the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemen's Association for a tribunal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sensation at Lithgow Old Mine Workings Collapse Many Houses in Danger
LITHHOW, Friday Damage amm[?]ing to thousands of pounds was caused this afternoon when old un[?]ed mine workings at the Vale of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Prize-winning Essay. Gold Digger Was Amazed at the Show Octopus - It Crawled Through the Air
Prize. winning entry in the Childrenâs Circle essay contest on the Orange Show was submitted Gold Dinner. Congratulations from Uncle Jeff. Below you will find Gold Diggerâs essay):â On Wednesday I went to the show…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Averted Trouble at Southern Mines
WOLLONGONG, Sunday: The threatened stoppage of southern mines was averted at a last minute meeting today, and the aggregate meetings…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Colliery Creep Causes Extensive Damage To Houses & Roads
Lithgow, or rather the V ale of Clwydd, has been much in the limelight in the Sydney Press and on the radio at the week-end as a result of the extensive creep or cave-in at the Vale of Clwydd mine. This, briefly reported in our issue of Friday, was the Worst experienced in this district…
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Practically every brick house in the area which was affected by the earthfalls in the old Vale of Clwydd mine…
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