Gold Ore in Road
A military road which runs for two miles through the New Guinea jungle, glitters because the engineers unwittingly used gold…
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Mining & the mines, 1945
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Open Cut Mine Brings More Rates
MUSWELLBROOK Friday—It was reported to a meeting of the Muswellbrook Municipal Council that the output from the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gold Ore As Surfacing Material
A two-mile military road through the New Guinea jungle glitters because the engineers unwittingly used gold ore worth a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Improvement in Bus Transport Wanted by Miners
Ald. C. Evans asked Cessnock Council, at its meeting last Tuesday night, to protest to Rover Motors of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners' Pension Fund. Deficit Causes Critical Position
An alarming Statement was made in Canberra on Wednesday regarding, the financial position of the coalminers'…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lack of Mine Gelignite Fear Complex Among Women
Women refused to work in a gelignite factory because of a fear complex, dangerous work, and isolation, said the Minister far…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →National Survey of Mines. Dates of Visits to Coalfields
The following are the dates set down for inspections in the collieries in the Cessnock area:— Monday, 12th March: Aberdare…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Nation Alisation Sought by British Miners
LONDON March . 2.—The nationalisation of the coal industry is the main counter proposal of the National Union of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Accidents in Mines
CESSNOCK Monday. — John Mills, 36, of Wollombi Rd., Cessnock, a road-layer employed in Elrington Colliery injured his…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Production Targets for Mines
SYDNEY Tuesday—The president of the Miners’ Federation (Mr. R. Wells) said at the coal inquiry to-day that there must be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners's President Advocates Government control
Declaring that coalmining was a "sick industry," the General President of the Miners' Federation, Mr. H. Wells,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Working of Mines Debating Society Lecture
“Coal Mining, Practical and Scientific” was the title of a lecture delivered by Mr. F. Wall at the weekly meeting of St…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining Industry Official Urges Nationalisation
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Coal mine owners had been adequately compensated by the amount they had receive from the industry…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Production Targets for Coal. President's Suggestion. SYDNEY
The President of the Miners' Federation (Mr. H. Wells) said at the Coal Inquiry to-day that there must be a complete National programme for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Mines Inquiry Employees and Wage Increases
The General President of the Miners' Federation. Mr. H. Wells, admitted at the coal mines Inquiry to-day that coal employees had gained…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Three Idle Collieries
CESSNOCK Wed.—In addition Millfield colliery which been idle all the week over a dispute concerning promotion, Aberdare…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners Abandon Search
LITHGOW, Wednesday — Miners have abandoned he search for Edward Dobbs (56) treasurer of the Western District Miners…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Plan to Increase Goal Production Miners’ President Tells inquiry Board
SYDNEY, Wed. — Giving evidence before the Coal Inquiry Board, Mr. H. Wells, president of the Miners’ Federation, said, that there could be no peace in the industry until the mines were nationalised. He would not consider signing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Loss by Mining Company
Mount Kembla Collieries Ltd. had a loss of £633 for the year ended June 30, 1944, , compared with a loss of £438 for the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →To-day’s Leaders: Leaders Fall The Wool Cheque Missing Miners’ Official Walked Into Newnes Home
LITHGOW Thursday.—Edward Dobbs (66), missing Lithgow miner, wandered into a forester’s home Newnes state forest…
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