Notes and Comment “Black Gold”
The steelworks at Newcastle, N.S.W., uses 31,000 tons of black [?] a week. This same tonnage of “black gold” would keep all Melbourne’s…
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Mining & the mines, 1948
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Coal Board Grant
SINGLETON: The Joint Coal Board wrote to Patrick Plains Shire Council meeting stating it proposed to grant to the shire an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents at the Collieries
CESSNOCK, Tuesday. — John Stevenson, 30, of Congewai-street, Aberdare, a miner, employed as Abermain No. 2 colliery, was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Output
SYDNEY. Tuesday.—NEW coal production to-day is expected to be the best day’s output for a year. Only one…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →All Mines Work
CESSNOCK, Tuesday.— All mines on the Maitland field are at work to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners Set 1948 Record
New South Wales miners returned to work after the Easter holidays yesterday, and produced more than 50,000 tons of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners’ Claim For Leave
SYDNEY, Wednesday. — The Miner’s Federation’s claim for long service leave will be listed by the Coal Industry Tribunal for…
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CESSNOCK Wed—There [?] a district falling off in production in the Maitland field [?] as a result of the idleness of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Muswellbrook Gets £2137 From Coal Board
MUSWELLBROOK, Wed. — The Muswellbrook Municipal Council will receive a grant of £2137/16/5 from the Joint Coal Board for the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lewis Denies He Inspired Strike of Miners
WASHINGTON, March 31—Forced by a Federal court order to testify, the United Mineworkers’ [?] John L. Lewis, told the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Board Grant Described As Beginning Money Accepted "With Thanks"
Stating that the Joint Coal Poard grant of £147 to Patrick Plains Shire Council was "the beginning," members of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners Warned Against Trivial Stoppages
SYDNEY, Thursday.—The central executive of the Miners’ Federation has again warned its members against taking part in trivial stoppages in the coal industry, which “made a rabble of the miners and turned public opinion…
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CESSNOCK, Thursday.—Petty stoppages on the Maitland field to-day are responsible for a loss in production of about 5000 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Express Train Blown Up by Mine
JERUSALEM, April 1.—It is officially announced that 40 persons were killed and 60 injured when an electrically detonated land wine yesterday blew up the Cairo-Haita express as it was running through an orange-growing belt near…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →State Mine at Awaba
The reconstr[?] and development [?] of the Pres[?] Department has announced that this year announced…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners' Long-service Claims
The Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. Gallagher) would hear the Miners Federations claim for long-service leave on April 19 the miners General…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →To-day's Coal Loss
Coal production loss on the South Maitland field to-day was 5,500 tons. Apart from Tuesday, production has ben on the decline…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Britain steps Up Coal Exports
Fifteen to 16 million tons of coal mined in the United Kingdom are to be sent overseas this year—10 million tons more than in 1947…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Coal Export Being Stepped Up
Fifteen to sixteen million tons of coal mined in the United Kingdom are to be sent overseas this year—10,000,000 tons more than…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →No Cheap Travel for Old Miners
Retired miners could not be granted concession fares, the Minister for Transport (Mr. O'Sullivan) has informed Mr. G. Booth, M.L.A…
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