Bellbird Only Mine Idle
CESSNOCK, Monday. — All mines are at work on the .Maitland field to-day with the exception of Bellbird. This mine has…
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Mining & the mines, 1946
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Loss in Coal Production
SYDNEY Monday.—It is expected that, the Commonwealth Coal Commissioner (Mr. William will to-day issue an order…
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ATHENS. May 12.—The Bank of. Greece has bought from the United States gold valued at 500,000 gold sovereigns says the…
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SYDNEY Mon—The Baddeley Coal Mine Bill, immediate enactment of which is, being demanded by the miners to prevent the…
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Two officials of Bloomfield Colliery, East Maitland, were proceeded against at West Maitland court to-day by the…
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Bellbird colliery, which has a daily production of 1700 tons, is idle again to-day for the 10th working day in succession. The lodge last night rejected…
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CESSNOCK Tuesday.—George Mull. 30, of Ruby-st., Bellbird. a top-hand at Aberdare colliery, had his left arm fractured when…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →B.H.P. Dismissals May Follow Coal Shortage Mr. Crook Says Miners “Industrial Football”
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A hint that the B.H.P. might soon dismiss thousands of men if coal production was not accelerated drew a retort that the from Mr. W. Crook, Northern district miners’ president, that the miners were again going…
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Owing to the May Doy holiday, nine shifts was full time for the collieries in the North for the past fortnight. Time worked at the collieries was as…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday. — Despite an order from the Coal Commissioner (Mr. Williams) that work he resumed to-day, miners…
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AUKLAND Tuesday. — The Raglan County Council has decided to grant permission for the screening of programmes in…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Any effort to modernise the mines should begin at the surface and not at the working face, said the general secretary of the Miners’ Federation (Mr. G. W. S. Grant), who declared that the present coal…
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WASHINGTON May 15.— The Miners’ president, Mr. John L. Lewis, told the Press that the Miners welfare fund must be…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Stoppages at nine coal mines to-day, mostly over safety fasues, resulted In a loss of 9500 tons of coal…
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Since the close of the war the public has learned something of the efforts of “the back room boys”—scientists, chemists etc.,…
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LONDON, May 16. — It was revealed that British [?]…
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CESSNOCK Thurs.—The idle collieries on the Maitland field to-day are Pelaw Main, Neath, Stanford Main No. 2 and…
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WASHINGTON May 16.—Soft coal operators informed the Miners’ President (Mr. John L. Lewis) that they “would reject…
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The General Secretary of the Miners' Federation (Mr. G. W. S. Grant) said that present coal problems could not be quickly cured or…
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CESSNOCK Friday—There were five large coilers idle on the Maitland field to-day involving a loss 5400 tons of coal…
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