Accidents at the Mines
CESSNOCK, Tuesday. — John Sumner, 40, of Wollombi-road, Cessnock, a fitter, employed at Kalingo colliery, had the top of…
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Mining & the mines, 1948
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Better Conditions In Mines
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Miners Federation realised the need for increased coal production and was prepared to take…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Good News for Murrurundi Scott's Creek Coal Measures to be Be Exploited
Murrurundi-Blandford residents at large, and particularly those of the business community, will learn with satisfaction that the…
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CESSNOCK, Wed—Neath colliery remains idle because of a dispute between the management and the proprietor of the bus in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners Get Ready for Vote Ballot for Bad Saturday Shifts
Preparations have begun for the ballot anions more than 17,000 N.S.W. mineworkers on the proposal to work back…
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CESSNOCK, Thursday—A conference of lodge officers and committees at Cessnock last night accepted the formula of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Race Club Formed in Melbourne Inaugural Meeting At Flemington Features Gold Cup
The amalgamation of the Williamstown and Victorian Trotting and Racing Association into a new racing club in Melbourne has been effected, the club being called the Melbourne Racing Club…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Colliery Accidents
Struck by a waggon while at work at Aberdare Central Colliery yesterday, Jack Skelton, 39, skip repairer, of Congewai Street, Aberdare, received…
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SYDNEY: The Coal Industry Tribunal, Mr. Gallagher, adjourned indefinitely the conference on the dispute at the big BHP mine,…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Production coal in N.S.W. to-day should [?]eed 52,000 tons. [?]otput on the northern maid…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—The Coal Industry .Tribunal, Mr. Gallagher, said to-day he could not possibly sanction the closing down of…
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Only two mines were idle on the South Maitland field to-day. Neath was idle over a dispute between the mangement and the bus…
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LITHGOW, Saturday.—Allowing for tonnages diverted to local Industry and domestic use, the western miners this week…
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BROKEN HILL. Saturday.— In September the minimum wage paid to men employed by Broken Hill mining companies will rise to…
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CESSNOCK, Sat—Carrying burnt-out torch, a 30-year-oId man, who-had wandered away from home on Thursday…
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James Pratt, of Bridge-street, Homeville, and William Oxford, of Beresfield, did not appear at West Maitland court to-day to answer a…
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CESSNOCK, Monday.—Discip linary-measures taken against wheelers at Maitland Main last week were responsible for…
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CESSNOCK, Tuesday.—Harold Phipps, 21, Neath Road, Cessnock a shunter employed at [?]colliery, received an…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—In a striking comparison between [?]and profits in the mining industry “Reports on Coal,” [?]by Research Services, states that profits for the last [?]years hare amounted to about £1,60,000 compared…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mining Unions' Council Seeks Conference. Claim For Long Service Leave
Before it recommends back Saturday work to the 17,000 mineworkers in New South Wales, the Combined Mining Unions' Council will seek a conference on the claim for long service leave with the Federal and New South Wales Government in view of…
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