Coal Mining Locally to Be Investigated
In connection with the establishment of a secondary industry in this district, Mr. DArcy Rose has informed Singleton and…
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Mining & the mines, 1946
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“Only Miners Can Produce Coal” Prime Minister’s Speech on Bill
CANBERRA, Wednesday.—“One thing to be remembered is that the only people who can produce coal are the miners,” said the Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) during the debate on the Coal Industry Bill in the House of…
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The Mining Warden, Mr. V. Lawler, at a special sitting of the Warden’s Court at East Maitland this afternoon heard an application…
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CESSNOCK Wed.—The idle collieries on the Maitland field to-day are Richmond Main, where a demand for extra labour by the…
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SYDNEY Wed.—The only mines idle on the N.S.W. coalfields today are five northern pits, and production loss for today is about 5300…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday. — Contract miners in NSW, who are transferred from the coal face to do other work must now be paid…
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CANBERRA, Wednesday—Speaking during the debate on the Coal Industry Bill in the House of Representatives last night, Mr. Rowley James (Lab., N.S.W.) said he favoured straight-out nationalisation of the coal mines…
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CANBERRA.—Control over the extraction of oil from coal and. coal by-products is given to the civil authority to be set up…
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KURRI KURRI Staff members from collieries in the J. and A. Brown, Abermaln-Seaham group gathered at Kurri Kurri to fare…
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CANBERRA Thurs.— Despite the importance of the measure, members of the House of Representatives did not evince great…
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CESSNOCK, Thursday.—Fresh disputes have developed at Aberdare Extended and Stanford Main [?] At Aberdare-Extended the Miners…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Land Mines And Discovered In Synagogue
LONDON August 1.—Land nines, arms, British army uniforms and forged bearer bonds on the Palestine Government wee discovered in the basement of the Tel Aviv synagogue when British troops searched the building…
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In a reserved judgement, the Central Coal Authority (Mr. A. C. Willis) announced that contract miners in N.S.W. who are transferred from…
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The Central Coal Authority (Mr. A. C. Willis) has made an order for a special payment of 5/ a day to contract miners…
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Contract miners in New Sojuth Wales transferred from the coal face to do wheeling, clipping or other shift-work will receive an extra 5/- a day,…
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SYDNEY, Friday—The N.S.W. Trades and Labour Council has appointed a deputation of four to meet the Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) with a request that the Railways Department be allotted another 3500 torn of coal weekly…
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SYDNEY Friday.—Five mines were idle to-day for the loss of 7050 tons of coal or approximately double the extra weekly…
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The Prime Minister, Mr. Chifley, it is understood, yesterday rejected a demand that one of the three members of the…
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Coal production loss for July was 217,000 tons. More coal was lost through stoppages on State coalfields in July than for any…
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CESSNOCK Friday—Abermain No. 2 colliery, where an inter-union dispute exists. Has now been idle for three weeks. The…
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