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Illawarra · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1950

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Coal Is Light & Power

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 5 January 1950 · page 12

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Oil from Coal in Q'land

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 5 January 1950 · page 1

The Premier, Mr. Hanlon, has tabled a report of Powell Duffryn, stating that the Company was confident that no technical…

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Coal Board Film Projector Scheme Completed

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 5 January 1950 · page 1

The Joint Coal Board has completed its programme of assisting all public schools in predominantly coal mining areas to…

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48 Mineworkers' Homes Through Miners' Co-ops

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 5 January 1950 · page 3

Forty-eight mineworkers who are members of Minors' Co-op-operatlve Building Societies have completed the building of…

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Joint Coal Board Grants

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Monday 9 January 1950 · page 5

New welfare grants approved by the Joint Coal Board, valued at £72,552, include: McCabe Park, Wollongong,…

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Northern Coal to Maintains Essential Services

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Monday 9 January 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday.—The Joint Coal Board has issued instructions for the coal produced from Northern N.S.W. mines to-morrow to be rushed to Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide for urgent use…

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£72,552 Welfare Grants by Joint Coal Board

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Tuesday 10 January 1950 · page 1

Welfare grants totalling £72,552 have just been announced by the Joint Coal Board. Of this total £405 has been allocated to the Southern district. THE NEW GRANTS ARE:—…

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Miners Claim Pillar Issue Not Gallagher's

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Monday 16 January 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sunday. — The Miners' Federation will oppose the right of the Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. Gallagher.) to…

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All Southern Mines Worked Yesterday

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 17 January 1950 · page 5

Mines on the Southern and Western fields resumed yesterday after the Christmas break. All mines on the Southern…

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Coal Board to sponger school camps

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Tuesday 17 January 1950 · page 5

The Joint Coal Board has decided to continue its sponsorship of school term camps for the children of…

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Mine Leaders Walk Out of Pillar Hearing

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 17 January 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday.—Miners' Federation leaders today withdrew from the hearing before the Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. F. H. Gallagher). They did this after they claimed Mr. Gallagher had no jurisdiction to hear a coalowner's application seeking an order to permit mechanical extraction of…

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Britain Has Coal for Two Hundred Years

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Tuesday 17 January 1950 · page 1

Britain has enough workable coal to last more than two hundred years, assuming it is mined at the rate of 250 million tons a year. This estimate was made by Dr…

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Tribunal Ignores Bulli Miners' Protest On Pillar Coal Hearing

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 18 January 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. F. H. Gallagher) said today he would ignore a protest by Bulli miners against the hearing of the pillar coal case…

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Four Mines Idle Yesterday

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 18 January 1950 · page 2

Four Southern mines were idle yesterday. Old Bulli came out as a protest against the action of the Coal Industry Tribunal(Mr…

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Coal to Space for N.z. Unlikely

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 18 January 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A spokesman for the Joint Coal Board said tonight it would be difficult for Australia to…

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Coal Protects Health

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 19 January 1950 · page 17

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One Mine Idle Yesterday

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 19 January 1950 · page 2

The only mine idle on the Southern field yesterday was Austinmer Extented. Old Bulli, Searborough,…

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Unity Among Retired Miners Urged

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 19 January 1950 · page 3

The President of the Miners' Federation (Mr. Idriss Williams) stressed the need for unity between the Northern and…

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Mines Inspector Says Pillar Extraction Department Matter

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 19 January 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The final control of the use of machines in extracting pillar coal from underground mines should remain with the New South Wales Mines Department, to prevent…

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Joint Coal Board to Form Film Groups

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 19 January 1950 · page 2

Documentary film groups will shortly be set up on the Southern Coalfields by the Joint Coal Board…

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