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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
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SYDNEY.—With coal rationing imminent—involving closing down of industries, curtailment of rail services and gas and electricity cuts to householders—one in every three northern mines today is idle on the nation's biggest coalfield…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A log of claims for colliery engine drivers will be prepared at a conference on Sunday at Weston. Every sub-brnnch of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →While every colliery on the western and southern fields Worked today, 4400 miners in the north were involved…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Henry Royal Wolfgang, 45, a miner at St. Helier's colliery, near Muswellbrook, died in Maitland Hospital yesterday afternoon as the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MELBOURNE.—Victoria's black coal position is regarded by executives of the three public utilities—electricity, gas and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Stoppages at 13 mines yesterday caused another heavy loss of coal in the North. Nearly 15,000 tons were lost, making a total of 42,000…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY.—Kandos Colliery, in western NSW, hasn't had a strike for more than 15 years. The reason according to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Working day and night shifts a caterpillar-scraper unit has excavated five feet of earth over an urea of an acre at Cessnock's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—Coal authorities said in Sydney to-night that coal rationing would commence next week. Rationing would have to be introduced because Australia's coal position was desperate, they said…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—Industrial authorities established by the Commonwealth under the Coal production (Wartime) Act of 1944 are bound by the wage pegging and rates-of-pay variation provisions of the National Security…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Miners' Pensions Tribunal at Newcastle granted an application by mining unions to the effect that a mineworker over 60 should be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir,—"John Citizen" fears his disclosures regarding the slowing down of the nation's war effort, due to heavy taxation, may lead to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The miners' Northern board of management decided to oppose the introduction of daylight saving next month…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The miners' Northern board of management yesterday ordered all striking miners to resume work on Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Friday.—The President of the Miners' Federation (Mr. Wells) had added to the record of pathetically puerile devices to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle district will be without gas after Tuesday if Newcastle Gas and Coke Co. Ltd. does not receive coal supplies. The Manager of the Company…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gas company officials in Newcastle are hopeful that enough coal will be made available by the authorities by next Tuesday to avert the closing down of the plant on Wednesday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sir.—It is time our politicians, union leaders and business men got together with a view to solving the coal output problem. The miners…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Sunday.—First step to implement coal rationing was taken to-night by the Commissioner of Railways (Mr. Hartigan) when he announced restrictions on goods and country mail trains. Cuts up to 50 per cent…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Immediate threat of a gas shortage in Newcastle is likely to be staved off by the expected resumption to-day of one of the mines…
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