Engine and Coal Trucks Derailed. Train Crew Escapes Injury. Brakes Reported to Have Failed
The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 4 November 1949 · page 1
Due, it is stated, to the brakes on the engine failing to hold the load, the engine and seven trucks of a coal train overturned on the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →25 Years Ago (Taken from issues of the "Argus" week-ending, Nov. 5, 1924) Coal Near Vere
Singleton Argus · Friday 4 November 1949 · page 2
Mr. A. Rose, who resides on the Broke Road about three miles from Vere, noticed an outcrop of coal on his property…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners Firm on Holidays
Maitland Mercury · Saturday 5 November 1949 · page 2
SYDNEY, Sat — New South Wales mineworkers have officially advised the Joint Coal Board that they have rejected the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two Mines Idle To-day
Maitland Mercury · Monday 7 November 1949 · page 3
CESSNOCK, Monday—Clippers were responsible for tho idleness of Abermain No 1 Colliery today bringing the pit…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →United States Gold Stocks
Maitland Mercury · Monday 7 November 1949 · page 4
WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 (AAP). —Gold, which has been pouring Into the United States for 13 years without integration…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mining Warden's Court Today
Singleton Argus · Monday 7 November 1949 · page 2
Sixteen cases are listed for the Mining Warden's Court, which opened in Singleton this afternoon and will continue…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Idle Mines Cause Loss Of 12,000 Tons
Maitland Mercury · Monday 7 November 1949 · page 3
SYDNEY, Monday. —. Labour Day holiday in the Hartley district and five stoppage on other fields resulted in the loss of more…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →More Mass Arrests in Czechoslovakia 8000 Sent to Mines
Singleton Argus · Monday 7 November 1949 · page 2
Western diplomats in Vienna quoted by British United Press said the Czech Ministry of the Interior had issued a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New Mining Machine Making Records in Britain
Singleton Argus · Monday 7 November 1949 · page 1
A British mining machine with a world reputation is making new records at a North of England colliery…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Czech Soldiers For Coal Mining
Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 8 November 1949 · page 6
LONDON, Nov. [?]—The Czechoslovakian Defence Minister, General Ludvik Svorhoda, announced in Prague yesterday that the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Estimated Coal Production
The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 8 November 1949 · page 3
Estimated coal production in New South Wales for the week ended October 29 was— Cessnock, underground 79,874 tons,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Accidents To Mine Employees
Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 8 November 1949 · page 3
CESSNOCK, Tuesday—William Lindsay, 23, of Villers-st., Cessnock, a wheeler employed at Abermain No. 2 colliery, had his…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Candidates for Miners' President
The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 8 November 1949 · page 1
Delegates at the Hunter Federal Council of the A.L.P. were informed by members from both ends of the electorate that there would be quite…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miner Caught in Coal Fall
The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 8 November 1949 · page 3
Caught in a fall of coal while at work at Bellbird Coliery this morning, Albert Jarrett, 49, of Wollombi-road, Bellbird, miner, received lacerations…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Engine And Coal Trucks Derailed
Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 8 November 1949 · page 4
MUSWELLBROOK, Tuesday.— Due, it is stated, to the brakes on the engine failing to hold the load, the engine and seven…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sufficient Coal Suplies If Production Maintained
The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 8 November 1949 · page 3
The Miners' Federation will be advised by the Joint Coal Board this week that if coal production is maintained there may be enough for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Weston Man Killed Caught in Coal Fall
The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 8 November 1949 · page 1
William Ramage, 45, a miner, of Government-road, Weston, was killed instantly when struck by a fall of coal at Pelaw Main Colliery on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Men And Women “Arrested” To Work In Mines
Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 8 November 1949 · page 2
LONDON, Nov. 8.—According to western diplomats in Vienna, the Czech Ministry of the Interior issued a confidential order to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Joint Coal Board's Gift Instruments for Muswellbrook Band. Greater Public Support Sought
The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 8 November 1949 · page 1
There was only a moderate attendance of the public at the Railway Institute on Friday evening, when instruments presented…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Prospecting for Coal
Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 9 November 1949 · page 2
SINGLETON, Wed.—Fourteen applications for authority to enter private lands in the Singleton district for the purpose of…
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