Sisted Drummond Memorial North Mine Collection £29
A meeting of the executive of the Sister Drummond Memorial Committee was held at the Town Hall last night. The Mayor (Ald. Rowe) presided…
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Mining & the mines, 1946
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Coal Inquiry Report Given Various Indictments And Pessimistic Views
Canberra, March 22.—Because no system of settling industrial or other disputes could survive the wartime practice of Cabinet Ministers acceding to Union demands, the coal industry was tottering, declared the chairman of the Government Board of Inquiry…
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Recently the check inspector took up with Mr. J. J. Clark, M.H.R., the shortage of first class rope for use underground on the line of lode, and sought the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gold Companies Born In Fraud; Carried On In Fraud; And Buried In Fraud
London, March 24.—These compa[?] were born in fraud, carried on in [?]aud, and were laid on their deathbeds in fraud." said Mr. J. F. Bowyer when…
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Alfred T. Ralph, a bollermaker at the Zinc injured his arm yesterday. After hospital treatment he was allowed to go to his home at 153 Merish street…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Victoria's Colossal Brown Coal
Melbourne, March 35.—Victoria's colossal deposits of brown coal were described to the State Brown Coal Commission by Mr. J. P. L. Kelly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Crisis Next Month of New South Wales Threat Of Staffs' Association
Sydney March 25.—There will be another big coal strike about the middle of April that will close down all the mines if the judgment of the Central Reference Board, Judge Drake Brockman, is not made operative by then. The State Council of the Australian…
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W. r. Lanthois bruised the first and second toes of the right foot at the North mine yesterday afternoon. He was taken to the Hospital for attention and thence…
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Giving information relative to the der[?]titis cases on mines since the opening of clinics for the benefit of an inquirer. Dr. Panting said yesterday that the total…
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Sydney, March 26.—The Bunnerong powerhouse will be short of coal for the winter unless supplies are increased. Councillor Byrne told today's meeting…
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LONDON, March 26—Leonora Margaret, Countess Incharge, daughter of Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak, was…
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Sydney, March 26.—A bid for State control of the coal Industry will be made when representatives meet the Prime Minister at Canberra next…
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J. Voumard lacerated the middle finger of his left band at the South mine yesterday afternoon, and after Hospital treatment taken to his home, at 87…
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W. S. Ferguson, of 571 Wyman Street, badly dislocated his ankle at the Zinc Corporation yesterday when he was stepping off a ladder. He was taken in the…
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Two men were taken home from the Zinc Corporation yesterday afternoon suffering from Carbide dust in both eyes. They were E. B. Hibberd. 477 Argent…
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Mr. C. C. Crowley, reporting to the City Council on Thursday night in connection with the financial statement, reported thnt for the first time for several…
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CESSNOCK.—It was disclosed at a meeting of the Cessnock branch of the A.L.P. yesterday that a Sydney syndicate plans to…
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A. W. Beggs, of 503 Beryl Street received a foreign body in the left eye while working at the Zinc Corporation yesterday. He was taken to a surgery…
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New York, April 1—The "Herald Tribune's" Washington correspondent reports that the Secretary of Labor (Mr. Schewellenbach), after conferring with…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →General Coal Strike Threatened Warning To Prime Minister
Sydney, April 1.—A warning that a general strike may occur in the N.S.W. and Queensland coalfields will be given to the Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) today by Miners Federation officials who will meet him in conference. The trouble is brewing over failure…
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