Gold and Wool Prices Comparative Rises
Winchcombe Carson Ltd. report: The price of wool has been considered by many people to have been very high. It is decidedly higher than…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1948
982 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 28 of 50
Interesting Evidence In Miners' Claim For 35 Hour Week
Although the western field would lend itself admirably to complete mechanisation, there was no indication that this was being done and the miner will continue to hew coal for some years to come, said the…
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LITHGOW. Thursday.— The Joint Coal Board engineer. Mr. Gordon Sellers, stationed at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lithgow Man Off to U.s. Seeking Mining Equipment
LITHGOW, Thursday: The Joint Coal Board Engineer (Mr. G. Seller's) Stationed in Lithgow, will leave for the U.S. next month to purchase…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners' Claims Lithgow Hearing Continues
LITHGOW, Friday: The hearing of the, coalminers' claim for a 35 hour week was continued today in Lithgow by the Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Move to attract Youths to Mines
SYDNEY, Friday: Miners' Federation is engaging in a general campaign for improved conditions to attract young men into the coal-mining…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →State Mine Idle
Objecting to the management's action in deducting time spent at a pit top meeting this morning, employees of the State Mine returned…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →No Coal for Railway Picnic Trains
More than 1,500 railwaymen and their families will be deprived of their annual picnic this year because of the coal…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Poles for Our Mines Sydney, This Afternoon
A proposal to use Polish miners in Australian mines as one method of stepping up production, will be discussed by the Prime Minister, Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Western Coal Output Per Man Is Best In Australia
Following a suggestion by Mr. F. W. McNally (western and southern mine owners representative) that at the present it was impossible to work a mine under the bord and pillar method with complete…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Aust. Seeks Italians For Coal Mines
SYDNEY, Monday: Although he saw no likelihood of Polish miners being employed in Australia, negotiations were, proceeding for the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners Warned On Smoking In Mines
In the spurt to-day both the prosecutor and the secretary of the Western Miners' Federation joined with the Magistrate in warning…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →All Mines Working
All western mines worked to-day, for the first time this week. On Monday, the State Mine employees returned home following a pit-top…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Few Youths Going Into Mines
In recent years about 2,800 children in coalfield areas have left school each year, but not more than 40 have gone direct into the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mine Nationalisation in England Shows Profit
LONDON, Tuesday: The National Coal Board made an estimated profit of £501,000 during the first quarter of 1948. Total coal output during the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal for Harvest Sydney, This Afternoon
Additional coal to lift 38,000,000 bushels which remain of last year's record 100,000,000 bushel wheat crop, is being sought by the Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Richmond Miners Ordered Back Sydney, This Afternoon
The Coal Industry Tribunal, Mr. Gallagher, to-day ordered striking miners at Richmond Main colliery to return to work immediately…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Migrant Miners Federation Hasn't Discussed Matter
SYDNEY, Tuesday: General secretary of the Miners' Federation (Mr. G.Grant) said today that the Federation had not yet discussed the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →400 Mine Workers Join Board's Home Societies
Four hundred New South Wales mine-workers have become members of building societies sponsored by the Joint Coal Board. This will enable…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A (Melbourne) Reporter Looks At The Mines
(The following report recently appeared in the Melbourne "Herald." Local and district miners may not entirely agree with all that he says, but it is an interesting survey and perhaps informative to many.--Ed. L.M.)…
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