Mine Manager Sacred Inquiry Sought
SYDNEY, Friday: The State Mine Control Board yesterday dismissed the manager of the Lithgow State Mine (Mr. Johnson). The dismissal…
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Mining & the mines, 1953
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Big Smash Will Cost Colliery £10,000
Wallerawang colliery will lose £10,000 this week as result of a major breakdown in the main haulage equipment, the manager (Mr. Joseph Cook) revealed today…
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A recommendation that a deputation from the unions seek a conference with the State Mines Control Authority and the Minister for Mines and that the Authority reveal the reasons for the dismissal of the manager (Mr. R. V. A. Johnson) and that certain documents containing recommendations…
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Members of the combined unions employed at the State Mine will send a deputation to Sydney…
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The State Mine at Lithgow over the past two years, and particularly during this week, has been so…
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SYDNEY, This Afternoon.--Some of the season's heaviest snowfalls and bitterly cold weather have killed thousands of…
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The fire, which threatened disaster to the State Coal Mine this morning and for a time was out of control, has now been safely contained, the chairman of the State Coal Mines Authority (Mr. R. J. Ashworth) and the Director of State Coal Mines (Mr. D. T. Brewster) said in a joint statement…
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The high cost of N.S.W. coal was threatening the long-term future of the coal industry in this State, the Chairman of the…
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State Mine officials this morning sent out a general S.O.S. for all available sandbags and supplies of stone-dust to help fight a huge fire which has broken out in the underground workings and by noon today had- reached critical proportions…
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LITHGOW, "Wednesday: Twenty-one pit-ponies perished in a tire in the State Cool Mine, near Lithgow. Rescue squad teams were unable…
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Fire-fighters battling flames one and a quarter miles underground in the State Mine early this morning had to walk over sleepers placed on the floor to pour thousands of gallons of water into the inferno. Late yesterday a member of the rescue squad, Mr. Bob Walker,…
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Approving the erection of a coal-washing plant at Wallerawang Colliery, Lidsdale, Wednesday's Blaxland Shire Council meeting paid a tribute to the firm and its management…
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A Wardens Court application by Edward C. Tobin for authority to enter the property of the estate of the late Denis Tobin, occupied by Mrs. D…
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A complete and heartening assurance that the State Coal Mine, at Lithgow, is to be developed along a progressive plan and that there were no fears whatever of the colliery being closed down or future activities curtailed, was given this morning by the Chairman of the State Coal Mines Authority…
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In Sydney yesterday the chairman of the State Coal Mines Authority (Mr. R. J. Ashworth) told a deputation of State Mine unionists that he was not prepared to make any recommendation…
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Calling upon the State Labor Government to declare its policy in regard to the development of the State Mine,…
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LITHGOW, Sunday: There will be no work at the State Coal mine because of dant[?]r from poison gases. The decision was made at a…
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LITHGOW, Sunday. —Members of the Mines Rescue Squad are still on duty at the…
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Men caught, by a gas explosion underground in the State Mine late on Saturday had escaped death only by a miracle, the acting-secretary of the Western Miners' Federation (Mr. Ray Shirlaw) said yesterday. As a result of the explosion, lat er described by a Government expert…
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Fire-fighting operations in the State Mine had been chaotic and some of the proto suits worn by rescue squad men and inexperienced trainees were in such a deplorable condition that the men obliged to use them had shown a courage beyond the ordinary call of duty, the Northern Miners…
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