Clubs with Bars in Mining Centres
The Joint Coal Board has decided to build working-men's clubs, with liquor bars and billiard rooms, in mining districts…
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Mining & the mines, 1948
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Miner’s Hand Injured
CESSNOCK, Monday.—Andrew Parkinson, 24 of Mount View Road, Cessnock, a Wheeler employed at Aberdare Central…
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SYDNEY, Monday—A move to reintroduce “back Saturday” work on the coalfields, is being discussed in Sydney to-day by the executive of…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—A social conference of district presidents and the Central Executive of the Miners’ Federation is being held…
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A move to reintroduce back Saturday work On the coalfields was discussed in Sydney to-day by the Executive of the…
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CESSNOCK, Tuesday.—There are three Idle collieries on the Maitland field to-day, Richmond Main, Aberdare Extended and Caldare open…
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On the South Maitland field today there are three idle pits representing a loss of 3300 tons. The mines are:—…
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IT IS MOST GRATIFYING to learn that the Coal Board has made a grant of £10,000 for the reconstruction of the Lake road…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.— Every country except Australia seemed to have a surplus of coal, the chairman of the Sydney county…
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CESSNOCK, Tuesday.—Reginald Lennard, 53, of Second-street, East Cessnock, a miner at Abermain No. 2. Colliery, received…
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Mr. Merritt of the United States Bureau of Mines (Health and Safety division) Inspected mines on the Maitland field last week…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Aberdare Miners' Women's Auxiliary Has Busy Year
In recess during the war years because members were giving their time to war work, the Aberdare Miners' Women's Auxiliary was revived in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Surpluses. Australia an Exception. Sydney
Every country, except Australia, seemed to have a surplus of coal, the chairman of the Sydney County Council, Cr. J. O. Cramer, said to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Earle Page Suggests Temporary Hydro Scheme “Quicker Than Opening Mines”
GRAFTON, Tuesday.—A quicker-way of getting electric power than by opening new coal mines would be for the State Government to authorise at once the construction of a temporary hydro eclectic scheme on the Clarence River,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners Leaders Urge Men Not To Be Provoked Trivial Stoppages Opposed
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Miners’ leaders yesterday urged miners not to be provoked into unnecessary stoppages, and at the same time asked the Coal Board to order mine managements to give more assistance to ladge officials in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Founder of Gold Industry in N.S.W. Story Of Edward Hargraves No. 1
Eighty members of the Newcastle and Hunter River District, Historical Society travelled from Newcastle by ’bus to visit “Noraville,” the home of one of this country’s greatest benefactors, Edward Hammond Hargraves, the man who…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pay Rate for Machine-cut Coal Increased Decision Followed Mine inspection
SYDNEY, Wednesday.— Until he had actually visited the mines and seen for himself, he had not known that the oiperations in filling machine cut cool were so extensive or rwequired so much physical effort, said the Coal Industry…
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CESSNOCK, Wednesday.—This morning several bus loads of mine workers left Stanford Main No. 2 colliery, situated at Paxton 3…
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SYDNEY, Wed.â Awaba coal mine, one of the three new state mines, was officially opened to-day by the Premier, Mr. McGirr,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Letter To The Editor Coal Shortage
Sir—There is a factor in the chronic [?] shortage which seems to have received very little publicity, I refer to the [?]…
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