Inquiry Call For State “Hoodoo” Mine
SYDNEY: Miners at the Oakdale State Mine to-day decided at a pit-top meeting not to return to work until…
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Mining & the mines, 1954
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Former Mines Minister's New Post Chairman New Collieries' Association Sydney
The former Minister for Mines, Mr. J. G. Arthur, announced to-day that he had been appointed chairman of the newly-formed…
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SYDNEY: The former Minster for Mines (Mr J, G. Arthur) announced to-day that he had been appointed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Production Up 9½ Per Cent
Coal production in New South Wales for the first seven months of 1954 was 8,594,000 tons, compared with 7,847,000 tons in the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Urging Establishment Of Coal Using Works
SYDNEY: An approach will be mode to the New South Wales Government to establish coal-using industries in the northern coalfields. A conference of members of parliament and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Subsidence Area at Paxton Would Go with "One Big Bump" Cr. Gleghorn's Comments On Mine Minister's Le[?]ter
The same thing would happen in Paxton has had happened at Pelaw Main, the affected area would subside with one big bump, Cr. T. Gleghorn said at a meeting of Kearsley Shire Council on Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →All Mines Work
CESSNOCK: All mines on the South Maitland field were in production to-day;…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Disputes At Five Collieries
CESSNOCK: Pelew Main Aberdare Extended, Abermain No. 2, Hebburn Nos. 1 and 2 collieries are idle to-day on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →She Forecast a Colliery Explosion ... Then Left
Forty odds years ago a female seer visited Kurri Kurri and settled down to an excellent business telling…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pelaw Main Colliery Fire Cost £30,000
One of the most disastrous fires ever to occur in the Coalfields was at Pelaw Main colliery on August 16, 1931…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Board Golf Tournament
The annual golf tournament sponsored by the Joint Coal Board, will take place on the Branxton links…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Three Try for Miners Presidency
SYDNEY: Three candidates will contest the next election for present of the Miners’ Federation…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Future Welfare Of Field In Oil From Coal, Savs Ald, Barrett
He thought the future welfare of the South Mailand Coalfield lay in the production of oil from coal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Four Mines Idle
CESSNOCK: Production loss from mines on the South Maitland field to-day was approximately 3400 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Freights
MECHANICAL extraction of pillar cool will, it is reported, divert a lot of labour from unprofitable mines, and those producing low quality coal, to the huge deposits of high grade coal in the Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →One Mine Idle
CESSNOCK: Hebburn No. 2 remains idle over a dispute concerning the payment for work in a section…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →To-day’s Leader Coal [?] U.K. Offers Strong Forces for the Continent. Proposal Boosts Plans For West German Rearmament
LONDON s Britain has boosted Western plans to rearm West Germany with French approval by an offer to keep strong forces on the Continent for the next 44 years. The offer—made by the British Foreign Secretary (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Lorries Collided
The driver of a 7-ton coal lorry involved in a head-on collision with another coal lorry on the, East Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Annual Coal Board golf at Branxton
The Joint Coal board annual golf tournament will be held on Branxton links starting on October…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Much Done By Labour Government For Miners
Labour Governments in New South Wales have done big things for the coal mining industry in recent years…
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