Coal Board's £5,000 Library Grant
The City of Greater Wollongong has been granted £5,000 by the Joint Coal Board for the extension of the Library service in the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Illawarra · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1948
110 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 2 of 6
Man Killed in Coal Lorry Collision
Turning to wave to a friend in the leal loading depot in Cordeaux Road, Central Kembla, while riding his motor cycle on…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Public Library Comment on Coal Board's Grant
The announcement appears on the front page of this issue of a grant of £5,000 from the Joint Coal Board to assist the Public Library of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Amenities in Coal Mining Areas Coal Board's Assistance
In a letter to the Albion Park Amenities Committee the Joint Coal Board states it has become desirable to set out more precisely certain types…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Coal Board Assistance To Council
Mr. Oldham, of the Joint Coal Board, conferred with the Greater City Council Parks and Gardens Committee last week, and outlined to them the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Brisbane Clash Brings Protest from Local Unions Miners Idle
As the result of a decision at a meeting of trade unionists last night, all miners in the district were instructed not to work to-day as a protest against the clash between unionists and police in Brisbane yesterday, and as a protest against the action of the Hanion…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Coal Board's Plans for Mining Centres
The Joint Coal Board in its 1948-49 programme for mining centres, which it will implement in co-ordination with…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Ex-Mine Workers on Compensation
The publicity officer of the Southern Branch of the Retired Mineworkers' Association gives details of what he describes as another…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Britain Steps Up Coal Exports
Fifteen to sixteen million tons of coal mined in the United Kingdom are to be sent overseas this year—ten million tons more than…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Orchestra Might Play for Miners If Coal Board Subsidy Granted
The Illawarra Symphony Orchestra would probably be prepared to give concerts in the northern coal mining centres of Greater Wollongong if it were to receive an adequate subsidy from the Joint Coal Board, according to an executive of the Society this week…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Joint Coal Board's Liberal Grant to City Council
The Joint Coal Board has decided to make a Grant-in-Aid of the revenue of local councils in the coalfield areas and Greater…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Board Grants £75 for Boys' Soccer Gala Day
The Joint Coal Board has mode a grant of £75 to the South Coast Combined Soccer Committee, to cover the full estimated cost of the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Council Will Receive 1d a Ton for All Coal Produced in Area
The City Council will receive from the Joint Coal Board a penny for every ton of coal produced from mines in the Greater Wollongong area. The sum of £6,469 has already accumulated on this basis since the Board began its operations up until February 28,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lessons From Centralia Blast Caused by Coal Dust Ignition
I am led to believe that since the above explosion took place at No. 3 Mine, Centralia Coal Co., Centralia, III., U.S.A., on March 25, of last year,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Orchestra Wants £4000 a Year From Joint Coal Board
The Illawarra Orchestral Society Committee has asked the Joint Coal Board for an annual grant of £4,000 as a subsidy for the Illawarra Symphony Orchestra. It is maintained by the Committee that this sum would allow for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →State's First Tea Service At Tongarra Mine
The first of a new type of tea service for a Mew South Wales mine was installed at the Tongarra Colliery on…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Coal Industry Appeasement Questioned
The Coal Board's policy of appeasement in the coal industry could have catastrophic results, according to Mr. J. C…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal Board's £100 Offer for Illawarra Eisteddfod
The Joint Coal Board has offered £100 to the Illawarra Eisteddfod Society to augment prize money at this year's Eisteddfod in August The Society recently applied to the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal's Vital Part in Recovery Plans Technical College Lecturer at Wollongong
Reference to appeasement in the coal mining industry and of the need for restoration of discipline was made at Wollongong last week by Mr. J. C. Webb, lecturer in coal mining at Sydney Technical College…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Worked After Retiring Age Colliery Employees Fined
Three former colliery employees were lined at the Bulli Court on Friday for working after reaching the retiring age…
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