Coal Board Asked For Grant For Health Centre
Kearsley Council has made application to the Coal Board for a grant as part of the Council's contribution towards the capital cost…
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Mining & the mines, 1948
1,406 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 11 of 71
Council Seeks Grant For Hebburn Road Complaints From Miners' Lodge
Kearsley Shire Council is asking the Joint Coal Board to reconsider it s decision not to make a grant for the road from Abermain…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Municipal Values Too Low. "Impossible to Accept Coal Board Grants."
Without a substantial improvement in municipal valuations, it would not be possible for the council to accept Joint Coal Board…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fall From Ladder In Colliery
MUSWELLBROOK: While in specking a [?] at the Muswellbrook [?] Mr. Jack Lewis [?] manager…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Eleven Mines Idle
SYDNEY, Monday. — Eleven mines are idle on the NSW coalfields to-day, and the production loss is estimated at 7[?]00 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Stern Gang Boasts Responsibility For Mine Explosion
The Stern Gang has sent messages to Hebrew newspapers boasting responsibility for the train outrage which…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mines Blast Train Carrying British Troops 28 Killed and 35 Injured In Palestine Outrage
JERUSALEM, March 1—Grim-faced troops walked through pools of blood and tore at metal and wood with bare bleeding hands to extricate the dead and wounded in the wreckage of four coaches of the Cairo-Haifa train, which terrorists blew up near Rehoboth,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Board Urges Material For Millfield Colliery
The Joint Coal Board is pressing the Department of Building Materials for the supply of 1000 feet of galvanised iron piping for Millfield colliery…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →No Fresh Mine Stoppages
CESSNOCK, Tuesday. — While there are no fresh stoppages on the South Maitland coalfield to-day, Aberdare Extended and Abermain…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →X-ray of Miners
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Four hundred miners on the western coal field will be X-rayed at Lithgow Hospital for traces of dusted…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Collided with Coal Waggon
WOLLONGONG, Tuesday.— Keith G. Fraser, 34, Main Road, Corrimal, was riding a motor cycle in Cordeaux Road, Kembla…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Medical Survey of Western Miners
The Chief Medical Officer, of the Joint Coal Board (Dr. W. E. George) yesterday began a medical survey of 400 selected miners on the Western…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Buried In Fall Of Coal
CESSNOCK, Tues.—Laurie King, 46, of Ferguson-street. Cessnock, a miner at Bellbird colliery, was buried by a fall of coal which came away…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Plan to Improve Baths Coal Board's Inspection
Cessnock Council's plan for improvements to the swimming pool was inspected yesterday by Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two Mines Idle Production Losses 2,300 Tons
Abermain No. 2 and Aberdare Extended collieries, which were both idle yesterday, are again idle to-day over the same disputes…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Confer with Coal Board Discuss Priorities For Amenities
The General President of the Miners' Federation (Mr. Williams) said in Sydney last night that the miners' leaders had been asked by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The State Mine Controversy Mr. Bloomfield Returns To The Attack. Reply by Mr. Mattocks
The various arguments arising out of the article written by Mr. F. Mattocks while acting editor of the "Eagle" criticising the neglect of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Australia’s Gold Production
CANBERRA, Wed.—Australian gold production in 1947 had increased by 13.7 per cent, over the previous year said the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mining Welfare Talks
SYDNEY, Wed.—Administrative and welfare matters associated with the mining industry were discussed by members of the Joint Coal Board…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Colliery Accident
Peter Farnham, 51, King Street, a carpenter, lacerated his right hand, while working at Aberdare Central^ colliery to-day…
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