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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
1,558 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 27 of 78
SYDNEY, Saturday. — The most drastice rationing of coal in the State’s history was announced last night by the Joint Coal Board. The position has been aggravated by the flooding of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Industry will be brought to a standstill and thousands of people unemployed as the result of drastic power cuts…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Tuesday. — The Prime Minister. Mr. Chifley, and the NSW Premier, Mr. McGirr, in a joint statement last night…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A meeting of ten left - wing controlled Federal unions, with a membership of nearly 250,000, today declared…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Government intended to put as many migrants as could be absorbed into open-cut mining, the Minister for Migration (Mr. Calwell) said in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Canberra, Sunday, — Senior or Federal Ministers say there is practically no hope of averting the miners'…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Late yesterday afternoon the local branch of the Red Cross Society made an appeal to students of Cessnock High school for donations of clothing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Prime Minister, Mr. Chifley, and the N.S.W. Premier, Mr. McGirr, in a joint statement last night, said no threats or strike, however prolonged, would influence Government policy in the coal dispute…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →More than 200,000 people are out of work today, and another 100,000 are expected to be idle by the cid of the week, as a result of the most paralysing gas and electricity restrictions in the history of the State…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Marjorie Lawrence, Australia’s dramatic soprano, who has arrived in Sydney from Melbourne, said that she was willing to sing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CANBERRA: Reports on drilling tests for coal at Ashford, in Inverell district, New South Wales, continued to be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →ADELAIDE: Preliminary assays of 100oz. of gold to the ton are reported in the richest gold strike at Tennant Creek…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CANBERRA: Mr. Chifley said in the House of Representatives to-day that the Federal and New South Wales Governments might…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Owing to electricity restrictions the C.W.A. Younger Set Blue and Gold Ball which was to have been held on 24th inst. has been cancelled…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Labor Party members said this week that if the miners persisted in calling a strike on June 27, the Federal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The miners decision to strike on June 27 was wholly unreasonable and unjustifiable, the Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) and Premier (Mr. McGirr) declared in a joint statement…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Hospitals Commission yesterday directed hospitals to refuse to admit all patients except pregnant women, surgical and medical emergency patients and any casualty patients who could not,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"A general strike in an attempt to force the claim would show a callous disregard for the comfort of the Australian housewives and the sustenance of workers in other industries," the Chairman of the Joint Coal Board (Mr. K. Cameron) said on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The king's Birthday holiday reduced working time at the mines by one day in the fortnight. No mines worked the mine days as all members…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →It was a very thoughtful act on the part of whoever was responsible for the placing of about 20 tons of coal on the vacant…
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