Coal Losses
SYDNEY, Tuesday: Mine stoppages today caused a loss of about 11,360 tons. Ten mines, including Burwood…
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Mining & the mines, 1949
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Injured in Mine Accident
Bathurst police yesterday were asked by Lithgow police to advise Mrs. Copeland, of 253 Lort Street, Bathurst, that her husband, Horace…
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Principles involved in a system whereby coal tickets may be redeemed in part payment for gas and electricity and allied…
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A spokesman for the Joint Coal Board said yesterday that increased mechanisation in the coal mining industry would result in improved…
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The Vic. State coal mine at Wonnaggi will be idle tomorrow as members of their Amalgamated Engineering will hold a stopwork meeting…
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THE management of the BHP steelworks at Newcastle have decided to close down the works because of shortage of coal…
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LONDON, Thursday The National Coal Board is understood to be considering a claim for £12,000 sterling against miners at Whitburn…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.— No serious industrial repercussions are expected from the one-day stoppage of three…
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LITHGOW, Thursday.— Extreme shortage of houses was driving miners from the pits, union representatives…
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For the third consecutive week western miners produced maximum tonnages from this field over the past five working days,…
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CANBERRA, Thursday: The Prime Minister was asked today to' have pillar coal extraction by machinery introduced in NSW…
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NEWCASTLE, This Afternoon. Miners at two of the three B.H.P. striking pits to-day rejected terms of settlement…
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SYDNEY, Thursday: A settlement has been reached in the dispute which threatened to close clown the BHP's steelworks and other heavy…
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Although he will be racing on the Lithgow track for the first time, GOLD GUILT is selected to win the principal…
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SYDNEY, Friday: The president of the Miners' Federation (Mr. I. Williams) has been ordered to bed by his medical adviser. The general…
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A gold locket and chain was found in William Street Bathurst yesterday and handed into the police station The owner can have same by…
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NEWCASTLE, Friday: The position at the BHP steelworks at Newcastle is still serious. The works are producing at only…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—On condition that the striking miners at Lambton, Burwood and John Darling mines resume…
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A man in Hillgrove, near Armidale, has found a cache of Sovereigns and half-sovereigns beneath rubbish in his backyard…
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NEWCASTLE, Sunday: A spokesman for the BHP said this afternoon that if all the BHP coal mines resumed work tomorrow the management…
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