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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
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There will be no stoppage of Newcastle's gas service daring the week. Coal supplies to Newcastle Gas and Coke Co. will be maintained except in the unlikely event of, all gas-coal producing collieries being idle…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal production dropped again today because 11 collieries were idle in the North as against six yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CANBERRA, Monday.—Coal supplies and housing will be among the questions discussed by the Premiers' Conference which opens on Friday morning. Before the conference opens,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MELBOURNE, Monday.—A threat to discipline miners throughout Australia by refusing to introduce a Commonwealth pensions scheme and to prevent them applying for increased wages by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY: While Federal Cabinet in Canberra today is considering the major problems of coal production and rationing, 10 NSW collieries were held up by strikes and two by breakdowns for total coal loss of 11,000 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Threatened suspension of the Newcastle gas supply was averted yesterday by the arrival of a train load of coal for the Newcastle Gas and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Details of a proposal to have the Federal Government take control of all northern mines are being worked out today by the Board of Management of the Northern Miners' Federation…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"THE grave deterioration in Australian coal stocks." as Mr. Curtin phrased it. has forced widespread and drastic rationing of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A showdown on what members of the miners' Northern Executive state to be the "real issues" in lagging coal production will take place at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CANBERRA: The Coal Commissioner (Mr. Mighell), has been charged in Cabinet with failure to carry out…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →With a reduction of idle mines from 11 to six. the coal position in the north improved considerably today…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →ARMIDALE, Tuesday.—Actions of striking coalminers were destroying all the good work done by trade-unionists generally for generations…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Idleness of 10 mines on the Northern field yesterday caused a loss of 10,000 tons of coal. There were five new stoppages…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fifteen hundred train miles and about 560 tons of coal will be saved each week by the cuts and alterations to the Newcastle railway network which will begin to operate on Saturday. Thirty-five trains out of a total of 200 have been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CANBERRA: Coal economies that will curtail industry generally, particularly the metal trade and transport systems throughout Australia, were approved today by a Cabinet subcommittee…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CANBERRA, Tuesday.—After more than five hours discussion of the coal position to-day, the Federal Cabinet appointed a ministerial sub-committee to work out a coal rationing scheme. The…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Judgment was reserved by the High Court of Australia on an application by colliery proprietors of the Maitland and North-Western New South Wales coalfields for a writ of prohibition against an award…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE miners' Board of Management decided to urge the Federal Government to control all Northern mines, especially those…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Idleness of seven mines on the Northern field yesterday caused a loss of 5700 tons of coal compared with 10,000 on Tuesday. There were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The General President of the Miners' Federation (Mr. Wells) had in his letter to Mr. Curtin misrepresented…
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