Prevent Mine Stoppages Coal Authority to Visit North
SYDNEY, Friday.—With the object of examining grievances at a number of Northern pits before they develop into stoppages, the recently…
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Mining & the mines, 1944
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Coal Commissioner for India
LONDON, Dec. 31.—The India Office announced that Mr. P. C. Young has been appointed Coal Commissioner under the Government of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tornado Turned Up Coal Seam
The old saying about "It's an ill wind proved to be true even of the tornado at Millfield last Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Double Pay for Miners Next
Double pay rates for Monday's holiday work is expected to bring back the miners for an early New Year start agement and the men's representatives:— Staff men will have a busy time during the week-end preparing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Council to Mend Road Stockrington Coal Hold-up Averted
With a promise of financial assistant. Tarro Shire Council, on Tuesday will begin repairs to the road to coalmines is Stockrington…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Penalty Rates on Monday for Mining Craft Unions
SYDNEY, Friday.—By a last-minute decision of the Central Coal Reference Board, next Monday, for the purposes of the award of three…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Release of Miners Sought
SYDNEY.—The miners' secretary (Mr. G. W. S. Grant) said to-day that he was hopeful of Retting release from the army of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tornado Exposes Coal Seam
Discovery of a 9ft. seam of coal alongside his home is some compensation for William Lewis, a Millfield dairyman, whose house was partly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Britain Cuts Coal Deliveries
LONDON, Jan. 2.—The Ministry of Fuel and Power announced that, owing to impending military operations in Europe, instructions had been…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£300 Commission Lost on Gold Salute
GOLD SALUTE was unlucky to be beaten in the New Year's Day Handicap at Newcastle races on Saturday. He lost about half…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two Mine-workers Injured on First Day at Work
Two mine workers were injured today on their first day at work in the New Year. The victims were Errol Harvey…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →B.h.p. Is Blamed by Miners' Leader for Two Pit Stoppages
The BHP Co, owners of Burwood and Lambon B, was blamed by the new northern miners' president (Mr. W. Crook; for the idleness to-day of the two collieries. The stoppages followed a ban on afternoon shift,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →F. T. Guy Continues His Winning Sequence: Gold Salute Unlucky
(By "Valais")—F. T. Guy, Newcastle's leading trainer, continued his winning sequence when Bestow won the first division of the Maiden Handicap at Broadmeadow on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners Ready for Work To-day Trouble Threat at Burwood and Lambton B
Almost total resumption of work to-day at collieries on the Cessnock and Kurri Kurri fields was indicated by the crowds that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Eight Mines Idle Big Coal Loss in North
Output of coal on the Northern fields dropped more than 10,000 tons to-day and 2700 men were idle at eight…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wonthaggi Miners Defy Order
MELBOURNE.—Though the Commonwealth Government last week issued a National Security Regulation directing the men at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners Absent at Ipswich
IPSWICH, Monday.—The managers of several collieries said only half the number of miners presented themselves for work when coal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wants Miners for Collie Released
SYDNEY, Monday.—Hopes that he would be able to secure the release from the Army of about 400 mineworkers to fill vacancies on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Miners' President Takes Over
The new Northern miners' President (Mr. W. Crook), second from left, confers on his first day of office with (left to right) the Northern Secretary (Mr. J. B. Simpson), Northern Vice-president (Mr. W. McBlane), and Assistant Secretary (Mr. J. Appleton)…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Three Stoppages Mar Resumption Big Coal Production Loss in North
Coal production loss of about 5500 tons resulted from stoppages at Burwood, Lambton B and Millfield Greta collieries yesterday when coalmines reopened for work after the annual Christmas break…
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