Nearly 5,000 on Mines
The Mining Managers Association has issued the following statement showing the number of men employed by the various Mining Companies (including…
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Mining & the mines, 1947
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Death Follows Accident At North Mine
FOLLOWING an explosion on the 1200 lever at Thompson's section of the North mine last night, Emanuel Attard…
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Brisbane, June 4. —An English company has made preliminary overtures to the Queensland State Government for the right to build a railway line from…
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Two men were seriously injured last night after an explosion at the 1200 level at the North Mine. It is understood that the men bored into a mishole. The accident occurred about 7 p.m…
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ADELAIDE.—State coal authorities are disappointed that the Peterborough division railway strike has not…
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Sydney, June 6—The Joint Cool Board today announced that there would be a twenty per cent our in cool supplies from next Monday to all consumers except hospitals, food processors and shipping, railway, electricity and gas undertakings…
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SYDNEY—An announecement by the acting chairman of the Joint Coal Board (Mr. A. E. Warburton) on Friday that coal…
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Sydney, June 8. — Coal miners are to be given an added incentive to work continuously until…
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T. Tsigos in taken from the south Mine yesterday to the Hospital for treatment for a bruised left eye. J. W. Cook was admitted to Hospital…
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Mr. F. N. Thomas, superintendent of the South mine, supplies the following information for the four weeks ended June 7, 1947:—…
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Sydney, June 9. —Coal cuts being imposed on non essential undertakings are causing concern in Industry and some unemployment seems inevitable…
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At the North School diamond Sunday North Mine team was severely trounced by the Hornet team. It was a somewhat uninteresting match…
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Adelaide, June 9.—Adelaide residents who for years have undergone more household and Industrial holdups through failure of coal supplies than…
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Canberra, June 9. —There are still a few thousand mines to be swept up north of Cairns, said the Navy Minister. Mr. Riordan today. Crews at mine…
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SYDNEY.—The Building Industry Congress has decided to ask the Premier to seek exemption from the coal cut of industries…
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Auckland (N.Z.), June 9.—General Secretary of the Australian Miners' Federation. Mr. Grant, today urged the mining unions in New Zealand to rid…
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G. Nail was taken to the Hospital from the South Mine yesterday for X-ray for a probable fractured right toe. He was then taken home to 173 Thomas Street…
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Sydney, June 10—The secretary of the Northern Colliery Proprietors Association, Mr. R. W. Davie, tonight said that if there had been only half the…
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SYDNEY.—According to the managements of foundries, textile mills and other industries concerned in the 20 per cent, coal…
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Ivan Bartley of 302 Patton Street, a miner at the South Mine was treated at the Hospital yesterday for an injured thigh…
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