Britain Facing Economic Crisis Coal and Dollar Shortage
LONDON, Monday: With Britain short of dollars and coal, the country is facing a grim future. Labor members are demanding that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1947
827 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 25 of 42
Snow Fell at Lithgow; There Was No Coal for the Fires
LITHGOW, MondayâAlthough Lithgow miners are producing between 9000 and 10,000 tons of coal per day, the majority of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Government Blamed For Our Coal Shortage
The coal owners say it is not their fault if Lithgow residents, other than miners, are short of coal. Its general distribution had long been a matter for the Government, represented firstly by the Coal Commissioner, and now by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Cuts Likely
SYDNEY, Wednesday: Coal cuts may be restored to industry provided there is a continuation of the present production, the Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Western Miners' Executive Meets
Protests against Dutch action in Indonesia were registered at the recent meeting of the Western Miners' Federation Board of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Our Coal Too Dear, Say Owners
The secretary of the Northern Colliery proprietors Association (Mr. R. W. Davie), said yesterday that it was wrong to say…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mines Headed Field in 100 Yards Race
K. Hines of Railway Reserves Club, won the final of the Orange Rugby League Footballersâ 100 yards race at Wade…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mining Brief Stoppage at Western Main
Subsequent to a conference between the lodge, the management, Mr. B.W. Cunningham (local Industrial Officer) and Mr. J.H. King…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners Conference
SYDNEY Monday: The Central Council of the Miners Federation began a five day. conference In Sydney gan a five day conference in Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lithgow To Have Miners' Medical Bureau
Medical bureaux to check the health of mine-workers would be established at Lithgow, Cessnock and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →(A True Story) End of a Quest Gold from mineral salts!
There was frank disbelief in the eyes of most of the men who crowded into Herr Doktor Sender's study ...but among them, too, were men…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners Support Ambulance Project
Because it considers that the service is long overdue and that the people of the district, particularly miners exposed to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Children Responsible For Fire At Cobar Colliery
Fumes which reached them underground this morning led the owner of Cobar Colliery and a mining official to a large fire, which was burning fiercely at an entrance to the mine, on the old ironworks site, and which was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Seas Almost Safe Again Mine-sweeping Operations London
A vast mins sweeping operation, making European waters safe for the un[?]ted movements of shipping, is now nearing completion…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →35 Hour Week for Miners Application to Tribunal SYDNEY
The Miners Central Council today decided to make an immediate application to the Coal indu[?] Tribunal for a hearing of the [?]our week…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Boring Machine Tested At State Mine
A battery operated coal boring machine was tested at the State Coal Mine this week under the supervision of Mr. A.T. Kirk, Electrical Engineer of the Joint Coal Board. This type of battery boring…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Glen Davis May Close Unless Miners Agree To Mechanical Pillar "Mining"
Warnings that unless mechanical mining of pillars at Glen Davis shale mine was agreed upon by the Miners' Federation the Government would seriously consider closing the industry, because the out put of the mine was only half…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Adelaide's Coal Shortage
SYDNEY, Thursday: Because of the acute shortage of coal in South Australia there will be no express from Melbourne to Adelaide…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →55,000 Tons of Coal
This week's total coal production on the western field has been estimated at 55,000 tons, with 47,830 tons being…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners Asked To Work Alternate Saturdays
The Joint Coal Board yesterday proposed to the Miners' Federation that men on the New South Wales coalfields work every second…
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