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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
2,624 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 39 of 132
LORD McGOWAN, head of the gigantic Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd., which controls enterprises with a capital of nearly £80,000.000, including the hydrogenation process for the extraction of oil from coal, has waited until his return to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →With only three dissentients, a mass meeting of 600 Wonthaggi miners to-day decided to resume work pending the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →OUR coalfields will have a fellow feeling for Altona in Victoria, where some excitement has been aroused by the revived discussion about the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Northern Miners' Management Committee did not rise until 6.30 last night. The sitting was one of the longest held for many years. There was a…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The New Zealanders S. G. Ware and W. Jenkins were successful in their application to the V.R.C. committee to-day for renewals of their licences…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"I see no immediate prospect of working the oil from coal processes in Australia," declared the Chairman of Imperial Chemical…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Mr. Dunstan told "The Sun" to-day that he" intends to push on with his inquiries about oil from coal processes despite Lord McGowan's pessimism. Lord McGowan, the Chairman of Imperial…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A conference arranged for Monday in connection with a dispute at Aberdare Extended has been postponed until Wednesday, when the secretary…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A comparison with 1935 figures shows that the Northern Coalifelds' share in this year's Sydney County Council coal contract has increased by some 65,000 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The general president of the Miners' Federation (Mr. C. Nelson) said to-day that Wongawillie Lodge, in the south, yesterday decided to resume…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The price fixed by the Commonwealth Bank for gold lodged at the Melbourne Mint for the week ended April 9, is at the rate of approximately £8/1/9½ per…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Ideal Home Exhibition at Olympia was opened by the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester. They spent about an hour and a half inspecting as much as was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Assistant Secretary of the Northern branch of the Miners' Federation (Mr. J. B. Simpson) said yesterday that the aggregate meetings fixed for to-morrow on the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Speaking at the annual meeting of the Australian Mines and Metals Association, the President (Sir Colin Fraser) said that from 1930 to 1936 the average grade…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A special conference of representatives for the north, west and south fields will be held shortly by the Miners'…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Two men were injured, one of them being admitted to hospital as a result of a fall of coal which was followed by a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The coal trade at Newcastle this week was little less brisk than last week. Most sections of the trade were even brighter; there was a big increase in overseas…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →A vote has just been taken on all the Coalfields of Great Britain on the Question of strike action in connection with local disputes which have been in progress for some time in Nottinghamshire…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Northern District President of the Miners' Federation (Mr. T. Hoare) said a Saturday that the executive had been advised of the result of an inspection…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Kurri Kurri District Coroner (Mr. A. W. Johns) held an inquiry at Kurri Courthouse in Saturday morning in to the death on April 11 of John Jarvie…
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