Bath-rooms at Collieries
Lower Hunter Shire Council to-day granted permission to Kent Colliery Ltd. Beresfield, to make additions to the…
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Mining & the mines, 1949
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British Miners Output
LONDON, Oct. 20.—With 10 weeks to go British coalminers are well within sight of their year’s target of 210 million tons…
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CESSNOCK, Wed—The Joint Coal Board is making available for display during the Back to Cessnock Week, which begins on…
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SYDNEY, Wed.—The Joint Coal Board is to supply coal production figures to prane[?]es of the Miners’ Fed [?]ration in the…
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Ninety. – years-old Guiseppe Frendo has re-discovered the gold mine on Gozo, Malta's sister island, lost since it was…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday. — Following a conference between coal owners and miners’ officials, Elrington colliery is expected to resume work to-marrow after being idle for 12 days as a protest against the quality of sand used in the…
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CESSNOCK. Thursday.— The return to work of Elrington Colliery to-day terminates a dispute which kept the colliery idle for…
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A highlight of the Back-to-Cessnock week, which will begin on Saturday, will be the display by the Joint Coal Board in…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.—When the chairmen of the Central Coal Reference Board, Mr. Gallagher, yesterday granted long service…
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“The Joint Coal Board and the Education Department have developed a youth training scheme for the training of boys for the…
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CESSNOCK. . Friday.—Mr. W. Crook, the newly-elected Member for Cessnock, will on Wednesday officially open the .medical bureau…
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A highlight of Back-toCessnock week which begins tomorrow will be the display by the Joint Coal Board in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Provision of Public Library for Kearsley Shire Discussed with Coal Board Reps
Members of Kearsley Shire [?] conferred with representatives of the Joint Coal Board last night on the quesion of the provision of a public…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Advent of Movies to Coal-fields Open Air Show 45 Years Ago
About 45 years ago, the late Mr. E. K. Lambert started the first picture theatre on the coal-fields…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Third Shift at Open Cut Opposition to Joint Coal Board's Order. Central Reference Board Enquiry at Muswellbrook
On Tuesday, the Central Coal Reference Board held an inquiry at Muswellbrook. The chairman of the Board, Mr. Gallagher, was present. The Board met to consider an application, and to hear evidence with reference to that application, by the Federated Engineers, Drivers and…
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LITHGOW, Sat.—Members of the Miners’ Federation employed at Commonwealth open-cut, [?] largest on the Western coni[?]…
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NEWCASTLE, Monday.—Militant members of the Northern miners’ management board will try this week to expel from the…
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The Joint Coal Board find the Department of Education have developed a scheme to train boys for bettor jobs in the coal mining industry. The board…
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A Joint Coal Board request that they take two, instead of three weeks' holiday at Christmas, has been rejected by Southern district miners…
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KURRI, Tuesday.—Struck by a fall of coal at Richmond Main colliery, Peter Sim, 48, miner, of Deakin-street Kurri Kurri, suffered…
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