Attempted to Steal Iron From Disused Colliery
At Kurri Kurri Police Court on Wednesday Harold Ekert, 25, and William Percy Edward Beavis, 26, pleaded guilty to a charge of attempting to steal 25…
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Mining & the mines, 1944
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Obituary Well-known Mine Official Passes On. Death of Mr. J. P. HINDMARSH
Mr. J. P. Hindmarsh, formerly Chief Inspector of Collieries in N.S.W., has died in Wollongong, at the age of 75. He came to Australia in 1886. and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hydraulic Stowage at Colliery
CESSNOCK Sat.—The committee of experts investigating the possibility of recovering by a system of hydraulic stowage a big…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Developing Leigh Creek Coal
CANBERRA, Sat.— Development of Leigh Creek coalfield in South Australia cost £250,000 initially, according to an estimate…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mine Experiment At Cessnock
CESSNOCK Monday. — The Minister for Mines, Mr. J. M. Baddeley, and the committee which is controlling the experiment in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Stop Press Coal Problem
SYDNEY Monday—The visiting British politician, Frank Collindridge, MP, said to-day that if the coal industry could get…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Seven Nsw Mines Idle To-day
SYDNEY Monday.—Six northern mines and one on the south coast are idle to-day, and coal production loss for the day is…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Disputes at Coal Mines
Four collieries in the South Maitland field were idle yesterday. Stanford Main No. 2 was idle over a, dispute in rates of pay for a youth…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Colliery Apprentices
Day training for colliery apprentices began at Cessnock Technical College yesterday. Apprentices attending for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Open Cut Mining BRITISH M.P. on Coal Shortage
Mr. Frank Collindridge, British M.P., said the only means of meeting the coal shortage if production does not improve…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gold Price
An increase of 1/- to £10/10/ a fine ounce in the Australian price of gold is announced by the Commonwealth Bank. It applies to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners' Federation Compliments "Eagle."
It is gratifying to receive such a complimentary letter from the executive of the Miners' Federation. We have…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Five Northern Mines Idle
SYDNEY, Tuesday,—Fire Northern mines were idle to-day, and production loss for the day is estimated at about 3500 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Us Troops Search for Mines
An American Soldier (right) sweeps a beach with an electric land mine detector while three fellow soldiers probe the sand wlth their.bayanets In a search for hidden German mines in the Nettuno arox of the Allled Fifth Army's beachhead on the west…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Accidents at the Mines
CESSNOCK Wednesday.— Lesle McBlane, 26, of Rawson-st., Aberdare, a clipper, employed at Aberdare Extended colliery had…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →More Coal or Consuming Less
It was now a question in Australia of getting more coal or consuming less, said the Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin). He added…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Crisis Near in Coal Industry
SYDNEY, Wed.— Stoppages at nine coal mines on the New South Wales coalfields to-day will result in a production loss of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners Defy the Federation
SYDNEY Thurs.—Five northern coal mines, employing 2246 men, and producing a total of 6150 tons of coal were Idle…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Western Miners To Pay Extra Tax
LITHGOW Thurs.—Two hundred miners in [?]bree Western collieries will be issued shortly with revised [?] tax…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Five Mines Again Idle Enforcing Disciplinary Code
CESSNOCK Thursday While there were no new disputes on the Maitland field to-day, the five mines which were idle yesterday…
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