Offer to Produce Oil From Coal
CANBERRA: It was learned today that the Federal Government is examining an offer by the Standard on Company of Australia to…
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Mining & the mines, 1949
1,558 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 23 of 78
Coal Board Circular stopped Two Mines
In protest against a circular issued by the Joint Coal Board to New South Wales mineworkers, two mines were ldie yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Leg Amputated At Colliery
KURRI, Friday. — When his clothing caught on a slow-moving shaft of a coal elevator, which supplies coal to the furnace at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →To Discuss Miners' Pensions Miners Leadersto Meet Minister
Miners leaders will confer with the Minister for Health and Social Services (Mr. McKenna) in Sydney today and will discuss with him…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →United States Mine Losses Heavy
A total of 1,259,081 miners had been maimed, mangled or killed in american coat pits during the last 10 years, the President of the United…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Burwood Miners Want Weekly Stoppages
Members of Burwood Miners' had the day off yesterday in protest' against the cancellation of aggregate meetings set down for yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Miners Go Home At Bellbird
CESSNOCK, Friday—Loss in production on the Maitland Held to-day amounts to 2400 tons. Idle collieries are Bellbird Hebburn…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Detonators and Powder Sticks. Stolen From Balmoral Colliery
The police report that a store at Balmoral colliery was broken Into last week-end and a quantity of detonators with leads…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Board Grant To Band
MUSWELLBROOK, Friday— Muswellbrook Bank has received a grant of £304 from the Joint Coal Board for the Purchase of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Protest At Coal Price Increase
Muswellbrook, Friday.— The Muswellbrook Coal Co. has informed the council that the Joint Coal Board has approved…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wants More D.Ps. For Open Cut Mines
Federal Government is arranging to employ more displaced persons to increase coal production…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Designed to Undermine Log Of Claims Miners Criticise Leaflets
The President of the Cessnock Miueworkers" Area Committee (Mr. J. Tapp) said at a meeting of the Committee on Wednesday night that…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Strikes on Railways, Docks and Mines England Facing Serious Industrial Trouble
LONDON, June 3.—A big wove of industrial unrest sweeping the country threatens Britons with their most troubled holiday week-end since the Labour Government came to power in 1945…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Stopwork Meetings Postponed Until June 16. Decision Of Miners' Central Council
Nationwide aggregate stopwork meetings, which were to have been held yesterday, have been postponed until June 16…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Extraction of Oil From Coal Proposal For Refining Plant At Morpeth
CANBERRA, Friday.—A project for production of on fuel from coal and shale is being examined by the Division of Industrial Development for the Standard Oil Company of Australia. A plant would be established at Barmaid and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mine Pensioner Bowlers Had a Day and Wight Out. Their Average Age Was 67
Mine pensioner bowlers from Cessnock. Weston, and Kurri Kurri, who had a day and night out on Tuesday, proved that ono is never too old to enjoy himself. Quite a number of these men are well on the road to 80, but…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Merriwa District News Blue and Gold Ball. Successful, C.w.a. Effort
The annual blue and gold ball, held on Friday night last in the School of Arts under the auspices of the local branch of the Country Women's…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Miners’ Policy Unchanged On D.P. Migrants In Mines Broad Principles Set By Convention
SYDNEY, Saturday. — The president of the Miners’ Federation, Mr. I. Williams, said there had been no change in the Federation’s policy towards the admission of displaced persons migrants to the cool industry…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal-Like Mineral Discovered
NAIROBI, June 4.—The Government of Kenya yesterday closed 700 square miles of the northern frontier district to private…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →EDITORIAL Oil From Coal
THE announcement of the possible establishment of a project for the production of oil from coal and shale at Baerami, with a refinery at Morpeth, gives a hint of future development in the Hunter Valley…
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