Retired Miners' Sixth Birthday Celebration at Kurri Kurri
Over 200 members attended the sixth anniversary social of the Kurri Kurri branch of the Retired Mineworker Pensioners' Association in the…
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Mining & the mines, 1949
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Miners'lodge Official's Success. Elected to Federation Council and Board
In the ballot conducted by the northern branch of the Miners' Federation, Mr. J. T. McGregor, of Muswellbrook, was elected a member of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Approach to Coalfield Town unattractive Suggestion by Coal Board Engineer
The District Engineer for the Joint Coal Board (Mr. Bowdler) suggested to a meeting of Kearsley Shire Council on Tuesday night that during the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Blow to Hopes of Coal Communists Miners’ Election Win For A.L.P. Candidates
NEWCASTLE, Saturday.—Election of northern miners’ board of management provides a chance for the miners to express on opinion on Communist candidates, and their reaction left no doubt…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Board Gives Projector To Millfield School
Features of the handing over of the Coal Board and Education Department projector to the Millfield school were an enthusiastic…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mine Pensioners To Protest
CESSNOCK, Monday. — Coalfield representatives of the Retired Mineworkers’ Association met at Weston and decided to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →All Maitland Mines Work
CESSNOCK, Monday.—All the miles on the South Maitland coalfield are at work…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Open-cut Mine at Greta
Newfield open-cut mine at Greta, which has been la .operation for 12 months by the Joint Coal Board, has been leased to Messrs. Thomas…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →State’s Record Coal Output
SYDNEY, Monday.—A new record in coal output was established by New South Wales miners to-day when all but two…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Board Grant For Sports Area
The Joint Cola Board has agreed to make available £5185 to the Lake Macquarie Shire Council for the development of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →[?]Ecord Gold by G. Belle at Maitland
[?]onditors at Maitland links are [?] to low [?] never [?] a round of as by Graham [?] on Saturday to create a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miner Killed in Coal Fall Fatality at Bellbird Colliery
Allan Mears, 35, a miner, of Paxton, was killed when he was buried in a fall of coal at Bellbird colliery this…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Kurri Mine Accidents
Alfred Harvey, 40, a wheeler, of Barton Street, Kurri Kurri, received probable fractured ribs and shock while at work at Pelaw Main colliery…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Four Mines Idle
SYDNEY, Tuesday— Coal production in N.S.W. to-day is expected to reach 67,500 tons. Four mines are idle for a loss of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Higher Coal Output Coal Board Spokesman Gives Reasons
Reduced stoppages, good weather, substantial increase in open-cut production and an increase in production per man at the coal face were given…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Scholarships for Mine Workers
Four scholarships to allow continuation of studies are offered by the Joint Coal Board to mineworkers or the dependants of mineworkers who…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New Firm At Open-Cut Mine
SINGLETON, Tuesday. — Farley and Lewis, Sydney contractors, took over at the Newdell open-cut coal mine yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners’ Management Board Censures Four Politicians
NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.—Four Labour politicians Messrs. R. Cameron, R. James, G. Booth and J. M. Baddeley former Deputy Premier—were censured yesterday by the Northern Miners’ Management Board for their atitude…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miner Killed by Fall of Coal
CESSNOCK ,Tuesday, — Alan Mears, 36. of Main-rd., Paxton, a miner employed at Bellblrd Colliery, was killed this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miner's Death in Coal Fall Buried for Half an Hour
On November 4 at Pelaw Main Colliery, William Ruinate, 46, a miner, of Government-road, Weston, was killed when he was completely buried in a…
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