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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
2,483 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 28 of 125
"I am yet to be convinced that any of the Federal authorities are losing any sleep about production of oil from coal. There is some power at work. What it…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →For the concluding day of the autumn meeting at Randwick has been reserved a clash between Ajax and two great sprinters, Gold Rod and Pandava. This trio…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Fears of a repetition of the 1934 racial riots have resulted in extra police being sent from Perth to Kalgoorlie to deal with any emergency in the Kurrawang…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Several tourists who, came ashore from an interstate passenger steamer at Newcastle on Tuesday wandered round the hills in the immediate city area in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In the whole of Scandinavia—Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland—the total consumption of coal for 1937 was approximately 15,300,000 tons,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Central Council of the Miners' Federation will meet on May 3 to arrange for an interstate convention. The object is to organise a campaign for a…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →A start will be made by the Railway Department on Tuesday to remove 350 tons of coal a day from the Wallarah collieries to the Bunnerong power house,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →When caught by a small fall of coal in Pelaw Main colliery yesterday, Joseph Lord, 62, of Rawson-street, Kurri Kurri, received injuries to the head. He was…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The Easter holidays affected the coal shipments from Newcastle this week. Exports were more than 8000 tons less than the quantity shipped last week. Trading…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →It was announced in the official organ of the Miners' Federation to-day that the Newcastle office of the federation had demanded an…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Twenty charred and mangled bodies have been recovered from the Keenmount coal mine following an explosion of dust. Twenty-five others are missing, and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Northern executive of the Miners' Federation has convened a conference of the representatives of John Darling, Burwood, Durham and Wallarah lodges…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →As a result of a conference between colliery owners and men's representatives in Yorkshire the workers have agreed, in principle to holidays with pay, and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Ajax is invincible. He followed up his All-Aged Plate win of Wednesday with a clear-cut victory over Pandava, King's Head, Mohican arid Gold Rod in the C. W. Cropper Plate yesterday, when the A.J.C. Autumn meeting Was…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Gold mines dating back to the Inca kings, idle for hundreds of years owing to their previous inaccessibility beyond the Bolivian…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Richmond Main colliery was idle to-day owing to a dispute with the clipers. It is expected that the trouble will…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →South Africa, whose coal trade is being affected more and more by the spread of electricity and the change over from steam to oil-burning vessels, will benefit…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Negotiations involving the development of a scheme for the production of petrol from coal are now stated to be proceeding in Johannesburg, Pretoria and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →When the Miners' Central Council meets in Sydney next week the date will be fixed for the Miners' National Convention…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Uniform rates of pay in similar classifications in mechanised mines and a shorter working day are to be recommended by the northern executive of the Miners'…
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