County Council Opposes New Coal Town
NEWCACTLE .Friday.—Northumberland County Council yesterday decide to advise the Under Secretary for Lands that it did not agree…
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Mining & the mines, 1950
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Head Injured By Fall Of Coal
CESSNOCK. Friday—Sydney King, 50, of Mount View-rd., Cessnock, a miner employed at Maitland Main colliery, was struck…
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Coalminers would break all New South Wales production records in 1950 if there were no serious industrial disputes, Mr. K. A. Cameron said…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Britain's Coal Should Last 200 Years 169 Billion Tons In Reserve
Britain his enough workable coal to [?] 200 years, assuming it [?] rate of 250 million tons [?] tear…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Council Wants Juries on Mining Fatalities Request for Amendment to Act
A request that the Coroner's Act be amended to provide for the compulsory empanelling of a Jury for allmining fatalities will be made by…
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SYDNEY, Sat.—In the first week of the year since coal production was resumed, strikes occurred in 10 mines in New South Wales, with a…
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PITTSBURGH, January :16. Twenty-five thousand stinking coal miners yesterday voted to disregard the suggestion of their…
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CESSNOCK, Monday.—Production of coal was down about 1600 tana on the South Maitland filed to-day through the idleness of Hebburn…
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BONN, January 16—Franco-German talks on the Saar ended yesterday without any decisions on the French plan to seek a 50…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—With only three mines idle In the north, coal production on all fields today should be about 58,000 tons,…
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The Miners' Federation will present a new log of claims, including one for a 30/ a week wage increase, to the…
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SIDNEY, Monday.—The New South Wales Government world seek leave to intervene In two coal owners’ applications before the Coal…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Mipers Federation refuses TO take part in an application by colliery owners for permission to extract pillar coal mechanically. The president (Mr. I. Williams) walked out of the…
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CESSNOCK, Tuesday.—There was a fall in production of more than 6000 tons on the South Maitland coalfield to-day…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday, — Heavy coal losses were reported from northern and southern coalfields to-day, when 13 pits were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Australia Hopes to Export Coal
AUCKLAND, Jan. 17.—Australia might soon be. able, to .resume exports of high-grade coal to New Zealand, said the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners' Reps. Leave Tribunal Hearing. "No Jurisdiction to Hear Application."
Miners' Federal leaders withdrew from a hearing before the Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. F. H. Gallagher) yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Owners' Case Opposed by State Federation Withdraws From Hearing
The State Attorney General intervened in a coalowners' application before the Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. Gallagher) yesterday for an order to permit mechanical extraction of pillar coal and permission to employ mineworkers more than 60 years…
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Bunding applications before Lower Hunter Shire Council to-day included one lodged by R. H. Cox (Maitland Greta Colliery Louth…
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PITTSBURGH, Jan. 18.—Moving pickets yesterday helped to boost the number of striking coal miners in six States to over 79,000…
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