Alleged Pressure On Coal Board Chief Witness Claimed Chairman Said E This At Cocktail Party
Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 9 June 1953 · page 3
SYDNEY: A witness told the Doyle Royal Commission to-day that the chairman of the joint Cool Board had informed him at a cocktail party at the Hotel Australian on August 8 last year he was under…
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Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 10 June 1953 · page 1
SYDNEY: Twenty mines were idle on New South Wales coalfields today for a total coal loss of 10,620 tons…
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Maitland Mercury · Thursday 11 June 1953 · page 2
CESSNOCK: Edward Minto 47, of Government-road Kearsley, a miner at Aberdare Colliery Suffered…
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Maitland Mercury · Friday 12 June 1953 · page 3
CESSNOCK: Millfield Miners’ Lodge decided at a meeting today to accept the terms of resumption…
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The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 12 June 1953 · page 7
Balmoral, Bonalbo, Liddell, Liddell State Mine, Nymboida, Werris Creek, 9 days. Great Greta, Gunnedah…
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Maitland Mercury · Monday 15 June 1953 · page 3
CESSNOCK : A meeting of the Cessnock mine workers today decided to ask that the meeting of the central…
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Maitland Mercury · Monday 15 June 1953 · page 3
SYDNEY: Coal output of more than 22,000 tons, including 14,000 tons of gas coal, was lost by strikes at 35 mines…
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Maitland Mercury · Monday 15 June 1953 · page 3
SYDNEY : When the Doyle Royal Commission resumed this morning Mr. I. Duffy, barrister, told the Commissioner (Judge Amsberg) that his clients, Farley and Lowers Pty. Ltd., open-cut-mining engineers, had received a payment of £14,000 profit and a further £7500 bonus under a contract with the Joint Coal…
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The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 16 June 1953 · page 5
Muswellbrook and Newstan mines will supply coal for the 100,000 tons export order to Korea. The coal is for the U.S. Forces in Korea. Shipment commences on Friday, and represents…
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The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 16 June 1953 · page 1
Muswellbrook Coal Co. has advised Armidale Council that it can supply coal suitable for gasmaking at 51/9½ a ton f.o.r…
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Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 17 June 1953 · page 2
LOADING at Newcastle of the first shipment of an order for 100,030 ions of cool for American needs in Korea should give heart to those who maintain that the future of the industry is sound…
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Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 17 June 1953 · page 1
TOKYO: South Koran Troops thrown off finger Ridge by 6000 Chinese to-day thought the Communist on Kyem Mountain the loss of which would put the whole of the United Nations eastern front in Perll The unexpected Chinese ansolought on Finger Ridge come just as two…
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Maitland Mercury · Thursday 18 June 1953 · page 4
CESSNOCK: Cessnock District Hospital Board has amended the rules governing the in-patients contribution…
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Maitland Mercury · Thursday 18 June 1953 · page 3
SINGLETON: A combined union meeting of miners’ in the Singleton district will to-night discuss the housing…
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Maitland Mercury · Friday 19 June 1953 · page 1
CESSNOCK:- The Coal Conservation Committee will, gave a demonstration of modern stowage methods naing both…
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Maitland Mercury · Friday 19 June 1953 · page 1
CESSNOCK: Richmond Main is idle to-day because the men object to more than one pair of miners working on a…
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The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 19 June 1953 · page 1
The Cessnock Hospital Board decided on Tuesday night to alter the rales of the In-patients' Contribution…
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The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 19 June 1953 · page 5
More than 100 buyers from northern western and southern coalfields attended an auction of equipment from the…
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Singleton Argus · Friday 19 June 1953 · page 4
A meeting of miners from all mines in the Singleton district last night decided to send a deputation to Mr…
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Maitland Mercury · Friday 19 June 1953 · page 5
SINGLETON: Mining lodges will protest to the Housing Commission at the delay in supplying homes to mine workers in Singleton district. The lodges will also seek a change in the local…
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