Coal Outlook Alarming Week’s Loss 48,000 Tons
SYDNEY Friday—Further coal restrictions are inevitable if the present stoppages in New South Wales Mines are not reduced…
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Mining & the mines, 1945
904 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 14 of 46
Hold-up Threat at Eleven Mines
SYDNEY Mon.—Eleven mines, comprising the J. and A. Brown and Abermain-Seabam Group, are threatened with idleness on…
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CESSNOCK Monday — While there are no new disputes on the Maitland field to-day there remain idle Abermain No. 1,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Plans for Better Coal Production Miners, Owners Tell Inquiry
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Two plans for increasing coal production and solving some of the industry’s major problems were placed before the coal inquiry presided over by Mr. Justice Davidson in Sydney…
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CESSNOCK Wednesday.—Miners at Richmond Main, Pelaw and Stanford Main No. 1 collieries returned home this…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners' Fatigue Causes High Absenteeism Western Official's Evidence. At Inquiry
SYDNEY, Wednesday—Fatigue was the greatest single cause of coal-miners home on the slightest perfect the President of the Western Distinct of the Miners Federation (Mr John Parkinson) told the coal inquiry…
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Mr. "Bunny" McWilliams, who is a returned soldier of this war, has discovered a new use for coal. He has produced for our inspection some…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Vocational Tests for Boys in Mines
G[?]ving evidence to the Coal Inquiry Board on Tuesday. Mr. J. Parkinson, President of the Western Miners, said vocational tests for boys working in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Open Cut Coal. Over 1000 Tons Yesterday
Yesterday's production of over 1000 tons was a record since the beginning of open-cut mining operations in Muswellbrook…
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The deputy coroner for Maitland (Mr. E. C. Scarlett) returned a verdict of accidental death at an Inquest to-day regarding the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Re-Building The Coal Industry In Britain Australian Associate [?]
LONDON, March 29—A planned merging of collieries, and the establishment of a Parliament-endowed authority to oversee the planning, are the main recommendation in the report of the technical advisory committee on Coal mining…
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KURRI KURRI Tuesday.—The body of William Thomas Close, 63, who had been missing from his home in Kurri Kurri since…
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CESSNOCK Wed.— Arthur Smith, 59 of Chedgey street, Cessnock, a miner employed at Bellbird Colliery, received…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Supplies to B.h.p. Cut
SYDNEY Wed.—Coal supplies to BHP Pty. Ltd.. at Newcastle, which have been reduced by the strike ruling for several weeks…
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CESSNOCK Wed. —Kearsley Shire Council last night deal with a letter received from the president of the Miners’…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gold Bullion Recovered Buried in the Philippines
Gold bullion valued at £40,000 buried in Iloilo, the capital of Panay in the Philippines, on April 14, 1942, as the Japanese…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Existing Coal Position B.h.p. May Be Affected
The existing coal position has been thrown into sharp relief by an announcement emanating from the B.H.P. Co. Ltd. that operations…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Communist “Caves” in Coal Mines Denial By District President
SYDNEY, Thursday.—There were Communist “cafes” or “cells” in every coal mine, led by certain leaders, and it would be proved that Communists were causing stoppiger and one-day strikes in the coal industry, said Mr. H. Gresory…
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George Dryden, 32 of Edith Street, Cessnock, a screen hand employed at Millfield colliery, suffered an injury to his knee this morning, when he fell…
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The western district president of the Miners' Federation, Mr. J. Parkinson, who is a member of the Communist Party, denied before the…
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