State Mine Again Idle on Safety Issue
Lithgow Mercury · Friday 25 September 1953 · page 2
Dissatisfied with the underground situation at the State Mine, the miners' lodge this morning indicated it was not prepared to risk ordering members to work inbye of the fire area and the colliery was again thrown…
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Lithgow Mercury · Friday 25 September 1953 · page 4
The chapter of mine accidents continued yesterday, when two more mineworkers were injured, a Lithgow…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Excursion to Goldfield
Central Western Daily · Friday 25 September 1953 · page 2
Orange Hysterical Society will conduct an excursion to Lower Lewis Ponds on Sunday. A bus will leave Robertson Park at 11. a.m. Lower Lew’s Ponds is on historic spot as it was…
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Lithgow Mercury · Monday 28 September 1953 · page 2
Sensitive instruments, loaned by Sydney University authorities,; were being used today to determine the amount of gas escaping from seals at the State Mine, while lodge employees indicated they would not return…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Play-Off For Gold Medal
Central Western Daily · Monday 28 September 1953 · page 11
A play-off is necessary for the September monthly medal as a result of two members [?]ing in an…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Wore in South Coast Mines
Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 29 September 1953 · page 2
The Minister for National Deleopment, Senator W. H. Spooner, last night repeated that the Commonwealth would…
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Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 29 September 1953 · page 2
State Mine employees decided at a special meeting this morning in the Union Theatre that they would not return to work until they were given an understanding that men working on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Colliery Praised Although Fined
Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 30 September 1953 · page 4
Not only had the three part-owners carried out electrical repairs mentioned in the charge, but…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Council To Demand Answers On State Mine
Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 30 September 1953 · page 2
What is the future of the State Coal Mine? Is it to be gradually allowed to run down and reach a state of inefficiency where losses will provide the Government with an excuse to virtually close down or abandon it, thus throwing idle 500 men whose fortnightly wages play a big part in the local…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Probe Coal Authority's Accounts
Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 1 October 1953 · page 4
All is not well with the accounts of the State Mines Control Authority according to the report of the N.S.W. Audit…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →State Mine Talks Again Break-Down
Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 1 October 1953 · page 2
Several proposals submitted to the Acting Director of State Coal Mines at a conference in Lithgow this morning had broken down and the lodge executive was meeting this afternoon to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Keen Competition For Miners Management Board
Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 1 October 1953 · page 2
With only one of the seven board of management representatives returned unopposed, more…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A.L.P. Executives Meeting Mine Chairman
Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 1 October 1953 · page 4
In an attempt to obtain satisfaction on the future policy of the State Government towards development of the State Mine, Ald. J. Robson and Mr. J. S. Punch, president and secretary,…
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Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 1 October 1953 · page 2
Stanley Bruce McKensey, colliery superintendent of Weston, told the Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. F. H. Gallagher) yesterday that wages and leave credits to mine employees comprised 66 per cent. of total mine…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Report on Administration of State Coal Mines Statement By Mr. Cahill
Central Western Daily · Friday 2 October 1953 · page 3
SYDNEY, Thursday— The New South Wales Premier, Mr. Cahill, said today that any question of the State Coal Authority’s future was deferred until be received a police report on State…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →South Coast Miners' Books Opened
Lithgow Mercury · Friday 2 October 1953 · page 5
WOLLONGONG, Thursday. -- The Southern District Miners' president, Mr. W. Parkinson, announced to-night that the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mishap To Cage At State Mine
Lithgow Mercury · Friday 2 October 1953 · page 2
Three relief men at the State Mine were fortunate to escape serious injury this morning, when the cage, which was conveying them to underground workings, dropped 20 feet down the…
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Lithgow Mercury · Friday 2 October 1953 · page 5
Stoppages such as were being experienced at the State Mine at present were of no benefit either to the workers or the Government and only served to delay plans for the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Serious Allegations in State Mine Inquiry
Lithgow Mercury · Friday 2 October 1953 · page 2
The scandal which is reported to have arisen in connection with State Mines involving, it is alleged, "a large amount of public funds," refers to the Liddell mine, reported to be near Lithgow --…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Irregularities in Coal Mines
Central Western Daily · Saturday 3 October 1953 · page 1
SYDNEY. Friday.— police invest[?] into alleged regularities at the we State coal mines may…
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