£10,599 to Repair Colliery Roads
Following an offer from the joint Coal Board to provide finance Lower Hunter Shire Council has sent estimates…
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Mining & the mines, 1948
1,406 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 14 of 71
Most NSW Mines Idle
SYDNEY, Thursday—Most NSW coalmines were idle today in protest against the clash yesterday between…
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CESSNOCK, Thursday.— A number of the large colleries on the Maitland field to-day are idle as a protest against the Incident which…
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The joint Coat Board had agreed to make available sufficient coal to meet plant operations and leave a small tonnage…
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CESSNOCK Friday—Most of the coll[?] that were [?] yesterday [?]work this morning. Abe[?] No 2 where there is a…
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The Minister for Local Government (Mr. [?] speaking in the second reading debate on the Local Government Act Amendment Bill in the…
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TRIESTE, March 18—S[?] 170 and 300 [?] are believed killed and hundreds Injured in Sri explosion at Area cons[?] 35…
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WASHINGTON, March 19.—[?] The Government, has ordered a virtual , embargo on bltumions[?] coal exports and a 25 per cent…
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The Coal industry Control Bill, which was introduced in the Queensland Parliament by the Minister for Mines (Mr. Foley)…
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A question by Mr. McCaw (Lib. Lane Cove) whether a Housing Commission home at Beverley Hills had recently been allotted…
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SINGLETON, Friday.—The Housing Commission is to be approached and asked to build 50 homes in Singleton to house cool miners who, are employed in open-cut writs in the district…
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A special meeting of mineworkers employed at the Ayrfield group of collieries decided at Branxton yesterday, by…
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Stoppages in protect against incidents in the Queensland demonstrations were responsible for a coal loss of 15,000 tons on the…
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Large squads of police were on the alert throughout Brisbane to-day in anticipation of trouble when strikers held a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Singleton Is Seeking 50 Homes Step by Council Prompted by Likely Coal Winning Developments Scheme for Accommodation of Staff May be Undertaken
Immediate approach Id lie Boosing Commission, for the erection of 50 homes m Singleton, be made by the Municipal Council. This decision, was made by aldermen last night, is…
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All major industry in New South wales would close down within one or two days of the beginning of a general coal strike, a spokesman for the Joint Coal Board said last night. The spokesman said that if the Miners' Federation called…
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CESSNOCK. Friday — Allan Craft, 21 of Congewai, a shunter, employee at Kalinga colliery, was struck by a heavy baulk…
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Results of matches conducted in the colliery knock-out competition are:—Maitland Main defeated Aberdare Central by 6 sets 52 games to 2 sets…
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At a meeting of the combined mining unions, held yesterday afternoon, it was resolved to obey the instruction from the chairman of the Coal…
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CESSNOCK, Tuesday.—All mines on the Maitland field are at work to-day with the exception of Stanford No. 1. To-day’s…
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