Mine Transport Accident Fine for Inefficient Brakes
Stanley Sawyer manager of Pelaw Main colliery, was fined in Kurri Kurri Police Court yesterday for a breach of the Coal Mines Regulation…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1944
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Six Northern Mines to Resume To-day
Six of the seven mines idle on the Northern field yesterday will resume to-day. Elrington will remain idle. Coal Joss yesterday was 9100 tons,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal Point Bus Fares to Be Considered
Toronto Urban Area Committee was advised that its request to Lake Macquarie Shire Council that the question of fares on the Coal Point bus route…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Did Not Report on Ropes Mine Deputy Fined
Athol Lightfoot, Manager of Richmond Main colliery, proceeded against Sidney Thompson, a deputy, on a charge of a breach of the Coalmines Regulations,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Victoria May Not Need N.S.W. Coal
MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—If proposed experiments were successful, brown coal might eventually provide all the gas requirements of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →State Not Superseded in Coal Safety Control Mr. Beasley Answers Critics
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Minister for Supply (Mr. Beasley) denied that the Commonwealth Government has…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Production Slipping
SYDNEY. — Coal losses this week, totalling 41,750 toils, from strikes and breakdowns are the heaviest since the August crisis,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Draw for Positions on Miners' Ballot
SYDNEY.—Sitting miners' leaders were not lucky in the draw for positions on the ballot paper in the pending annual elections…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Another Heavy Coal Loss in North
Continued idleness of three large mines and fresh stoppages at two others caused another heavy coal loss on the Northern field…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bellbird Miners Fight to Subdue Dips Fire
Working round - the - clock, Shifts, Bellbird Colliery shiftmen Cure gaining in their efforts to counter the fire which was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. Baddeley on Mine Control "Will Not Submit to Bureaucrat"
SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Minister for Mines (Mr. Baddeley) said in the Legislative Assembly that he would not "submit his…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Colliery Makes Own Vehicles
Additional underground transport vehicles for use in Bellbird Colliery are being made in the colliery workshop…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hebburn No. 1 Miners Summoned
Eight members had received summonses to appear before a special sitting of Newcastle Court to-day as a sequel to a stoppage on September…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pit Ponies Unfit, Mine Stops
LITHGOW, Friday.—An officer of the R.S.P.C.A. has issued an order condemning all pit ponies at Western Main, which produces, 150…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →High Court and the Miners
SYDNEY: "The Miners' Federation is seeking legal opinion on the point that had been reached concerning wage…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Keen Contest for Miners' Positions
With the exception of district president, all elective positions in the Northern mines are expected to be keenly contested this year…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dogs Hunt Out Land Mines
LONDON, Friday.—British war dogs work at hunting mines in France. These dogs, many of them household pots till recently,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Loss 39,000 Tons
Stoppages at Northern mines this week caused a loss of 39,000 tons of coal—the highest for several weeks. More than 23,000 tons were due to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Beasley Says Coal Law Does Not Hinder Mr. Baddeley
SYDNEY, Friday.—"There is nothing in Commonwealth law to prevent Mr. Baddeley from seeing any report any of his…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Star Gold Has Easy Win In N.J.C. Flying
Star Gold recorded one of the easiest victories seen on the Broadmeadow track for some time, in the Flying Welter…
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