36 DEAD Japanese Mine Disaster TOKIO, August 6
An explosion of firedamp occurred yesterday at the Sorachi coalmine, Hokkaido. There were 59 workers underground. Two survivors and 36 corpses have been…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1932
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Theft of Coal
Pleading "Guilty" to a charge of having stolen lcwt of coal, valued at 2/, the property of the Transport Commissioners, at, Tighe's Hill on August 5, Claude Ray, 27,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →By-products From Coal
At a meeting of the Maitland Electorate Wise Spending Campaign Committee last night, Mr. A. F. Lyon, of Wallsend, gave an address on the treatment of coal for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Lump Sum Paid Colliery Worker's Injury SYDNEY
The Workers' Compensation Commission had before it to-day an application for the redemption of weekly payments by the payment of a lump sum in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal Point-kilaben Bay Progress Association
The monthly meeting of the Coal Point and Kilaben Bay Progress Association was held on Saturday night. Mr. Dawson's resignation as president was received with…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"White Men Afraid" Baronet's Projected Gold Hunt PERTH
West Australia's only baronet, Sir Alexander Cockburn-Campbell, is resting in a suburb of Perth after 37 years in the far north-west on cattle stations. He has…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Maitland and District News Miners' Support Relief Works Dispute Seniority Question Aggregate Meeting Arranged
The United Front Committee of the employed and unemployed has arranged for an aggregate meeting of miners' lodges and other industrial unions to be…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Elrington Colliery
Ehington colliery has been idle this week during the installation of new machinery on the screens. The object ii to get cleaner slack…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Miners Charged Perth
At Kalgoorlie to-day, two Dalmatian miners were charged with having, at Robinson, near Boulder, manufactured spirits by distillation from wine…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Government Trucks Loss of Coal Leads to Inquiry
Complaints from colliery proprietors as to the coal lost from the compulsory overloading of Government trucks have borne fruit to the extent that a transport…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Coal and the Future (No. 1.) Australia's Treasure Stores
A word or two, by way of a beginning, about coal in general. Everyone realises that coal is an industrial raw material of great importance. But how many…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Reducing Costs State Mine at Lithgow Conference on Thursday Sydney
A conference between representatives of the Miners' Federation, railway officials, and management of the State mine at Lithgow is to be held on Thursday to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Overloading Coal Trucks Sydney Official Makes Inquiry Much Lost in Transit
Investigations into the recent complaints of alleged overloading of trucks with coal, resulting in a quantity being lost in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Trading Loss of £1154 Hetton-bellbird Coal Company Assets Reduced Sydney
By a trading loss of £1104 on its activities during the year ended June 30 last, the Hetton Bellbird Collieries Ltd, reduced from £5100 to £3396…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Loss of £1154 Hetton-Bellbird Collieries
The report of Hetton-Bellbird Collieries. Limited, states that a trading loss of £1154 resulted from the operations for the year ended. June 30. This reduced…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Compensation Claim Colliery Fatality Sequel SYDNEY
The Workers' Compensation Commission had before it to-day a claim on behalf of Elsie Sarah May Renike for compensation for herself and 13 years-old-son from the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"Wild Goose Chase" Mine Idle When Officer Called Testing Trucks
The special transport officer (Inspector Barrett), who came from Sydney to inquire into the complaints of the Chamber of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Gold-selling Boom "No Recurrence in Lifetime" PERTH
That during the recent gold-selling boom in England about £15,000,000 worth of gold was received was the statement made by Mr. A. Henderson, financier, aboard…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cracow Gold Developing New Area Minister's Statement Brisbane
The Minister for Mines announced to-day that portion of the Cracow area had been proclaimed a goldfield. It would consist of 4½ acres, embracing all surveyed…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →To Resume To-day Caledonian Collieries
Aberdare Central colliery ceased work yesterday in sympathy with Aberdare Extended, maintaining that their interests were equally involved with the grievances…
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