Rising Costs of Coal
MUSWELLBROOK, Friday. — Mr. G. Willott reported to Muswellbrook Municipal Council that the gas department had been…
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Mining & the mines, 1950
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Fumes From Old Mine Workings
Members of the Greta Progress Association stated at the monthly meeting of that body that nothing had yet been done to deal…
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CESSNOCK, Wed— Production on South Maitland field to-day was down by about 1500 tons. Hebburn No. 1 is idle following…
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CESSNOCK, Wed.— The Joint Coal Board has advised Cessnock Municipal Council that, subject to funds being available, a grant…
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SYDNEY, Thursday. — The secretary of the Maitland Main miners’ lodge (Mr. W. Orr) was declared elected as miners’…
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CANBERRA, Thurs.—The Minister for Supply (Senator McLeay) said in the Senate that a close check was being kept on…
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A wheeler suffered a probably fractured right forearm when he was jammed between limbers and the skip at Bloomfield [?]…
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CESSNOCK, Friday.—With only two mines idle on the South Maitland field to-day, the high production level of this week has…
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There were 380,560 permanent new arrivals from overseas in Australia since October. 1954, to June, 1950, the Minister for…
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Thanks were due to the Miners' Federation for its unseating Struggle throughout the years for mine pensioners, the…
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SYDNEY, Sat.—The central council of the [?] Federation yesterday described as deliberate lies” a-statement by the…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—The Central Executive of the Miners’ Federation will call a nation-wide stop-work meeting soon to…
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SYDNEY, Monday. — Coal miners will receive the £1 a week basic wage increase from the first pay period in December…
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John Hunt and Lawrence Irwin, two young Muswellbrook boys, while diging near the banks of the Hunter River during the week-end, unearthed…
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The basic wage increase of £1 a week to mineworkers would cost the coal industry in New South Wales an extra £951,600 annually, coal…
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SYDNEY, Wed.—Increased pens on benefits to miners and a widening of the definition of “mine worker” are contained In…
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NEWCASTLE, Wed—Communist candidates have been decisively beaten in the miners’ ballot for the election of the official…
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CESSNOCK, Wed. — Cr. J. Proudfoot told Kearsley Shire Council meeting last night that he had received complaints from…
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CANBERRA, Wed. — During 1950 Australia expects to import 664,000 -tons of coal, said the Postmaster-General (Mr…
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 8— US holdings of momentary gold declined more than £595,982,142 In the last 12 months, Treasury…
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