Long Walk for Mines Health Committee
The Health Committee of the Coal Inquiry had a walk of nearly one and a quarter miles on its final mine inspection on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1945
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"Bus Ban Would cut Coal Production"
Production at a number of mines would be reduced if bus crews carried out their threat to refuse to run vehicles over…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Grant on Miners' Pensions
The Central Executive of the Miners' Federation would have to consider immediately the decision of the Coal and Oil Shale…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mines Health Committee Sees Minmi "Ghost Town"
The Health Committee of the Coal Commission of Inquiry yesterday afternoon visited what is known in Northern mining circles as the "John Brown's Ghost Town"—the small township of Minmi—where they saw a mining…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners' Federation Accused "Award Repudiated at John Darling"
THE stoppage at John Darling colliery was a direct repudiation of an award made by a properly constitued authority set up by the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Coal Industry Outmoded" New Life From Gasification
The coalmining industry had become wasteful and inefficient because the very foundation of its entire structure had become obsolete and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Miner's Wives At Coal Inquiry; Life On The COalfields
Miners' wives from various coalfields centres told the Health Committee of the Coal Inquiry today of the disabilities of life in mining villages, the peculiar domestic problems of miners' homes, and the illnesses and afflictions from which their husbands and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Eight Mines Out Today
With eight mines idle on the northern field, coal production loss today was 8100 tons. Two of the six mines idle on Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Health Investigators Meet Miners' Wives
Sir Raphael Cliento, Chairman of the Health Committee of the Coal Commission of Inquiry, addressed miners' wives at Federation House, Newcastle, on Saturday afternoon. The group, photographed before the address, shows, from left: Sir Raphael, Dr. Murray (a member of the committee), Mrs. H. Scanlon (wife of the Northern Vice-president of the federation), the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →No Additions to Coal Itinerary
It would be impossible for the Health Committee of the Coal Inquiry to meet requests to visit mines on the Northern field…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →3 Mines May Resume To-day
Three of the six collieries idle in the North are expected to resume work to-day. They are Pelaw Main, Stockrington No. 1 and Rhondda…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners' Health Women Want Inquiry On Family Basis
The Chairman of the Health Committee of the Coal Commission of Inquiry (Sir Raphael Cilento) was told by miners' wives that any approach to the problems of mine-workers' health should be on a family basis…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Must Clarify Levy Position" Mr. Grant on Mine Pension Fund
Before mineworkers increased their weekly contribution to the Mineworkers' Pension Fund, the position of the owners' levy would have to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Bridges At New Lambton
"The coal bridges crossing the main Wallsend road at New Lambton were built in 1862. contrary to conditions laid down by Act of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Idle Mines Now Down To Six
Idleness of six collieries on the northern field today involved the loss of 6750 tons of coal production. There was only one…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wises Of Miners Talk To Health Body
The Federal Health Committee of the Coal Inquiry heard from miners' wives at Cessnock today proposals for more amenities for miners' families. There was general agreement that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Six Collieries Idle on Northern Field
Idleness of six Northern mines yesterday caused a loss of 6650 tons of coal. Stoppages continued at John…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners' Lodge Officer Sent to Gaol
A man who pleaded guilty to stealing £486 while an officer of Pelton Miners' Lodge was sentenced to two years' gaol at Maitland Quarter…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining Health Committee at Richmond Main
The Health Committee of the Coal Inquiry this morning inspected surface facilities at Richmond Main Colliery, the largest and one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Royal Humane Gold Medal To R.A.A.F. Man
LONDON, Tuesday.—The Stanhope Gold Medal, given for the bravest deed of the year, has been awarded by the Royal Humane Society to…
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