Sees Coal Output of 18,000,000 Tons
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A future salable coal output, under complete mechanisation, of 18 million tons a year was envisaged by…
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Mining & the mines, 1945
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Three Mines Did Not Work
Three collieries on the northern field were idle today. Their combined normal daily output is 2350 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Japs Lay Mines in Pacific
NEW YORK, June 7. A.A.P.—With a fast Allied carrier task forcer at Okinawa, the Japanese, in desperation, are releasing large…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners' A.C.T.U. Delegates
Messrs. J. Comerford and J. Logan will represent the Northern branch of the Miners' Federation at the A.C.T.U. Congress, which will…
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COPENHAGEN, June 7. A.A.P.—Three German soldiers and three Danes are believed to have been killed, and many injured when a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two Miners Fined £5
Pleading guilty to absenteeism from Stockrington No. 1 Colliery, on May 24, at the Special Federal Court at Newcastle Courthouse last night…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dump of Land Mines Explodes
LONDON. Friday.—An ammunition dump, including 5000 German land mines, blew up today at Esjeberg in Denmark…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Three Mines Idle Over Disputes
Three mines were idle in the North yesterday over disputes. A fourth was idle because of repairs. Idle mines were.—…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fodder Wanted For Coal Carters
SYDNEY.—Householders in Cessnock, Kurri and Maitland face a winter without coal unless fodder is made available for coal-carters'…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lithgow Miners Threaten King's Birthday Strike
LITHGOW, Friday.—Unless the Commonwealth Coal Commission agrees to make an order that the miners' check weighman be paid…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal Inquiry Ill-health Forces Mr. Armstrong to Resign
SYDNEY, Friday.—Mr. T. Armstrong, M.L.C., has resigned from the Commonwealth Coal Inquiry owing to ill-health…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lakeside Mine Pensioners
At a meeting of Belmont-Swansea branch of the Retired Mineworkers Association, Mr. J. Jack presided. The Chairman commented on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Only One Mine Dispute
Though four mines on the northern field did not work today, only one was idle as a result of a dispute…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In Gold Fish Club
Warrant Officer Wallace Dann, who is a member of one of the most exclusive clubs in the world, the qualification for which is to have crashed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal Stocks Low; Gas, Power May Be Rationed
SYDNEY, Sunday.—Electricity would be rationed in Sydney unless coal supplies arrived by to-morrow said the County Council Deputy…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Stocks Again Precarious
SYDNEY: The General Secretary of the Miners' Federation (Mr. R. G. Grant) has been advised by the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Increase of 1/9 in Gold Price
SYDNEY, Monday.—The Commonwealth Bank announced an increase from £10/13/6 to £10/15/3 in the cold price. This brings the price…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mine Ostler Injured
When a horse he was riding yesterday at the mine bumped a fence, Anthony G. Underwood, 47, of Brooks-street, West Wallsend,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rain Affects Mine Work
Wet weather was responsible for cessation of work at two Northern and three Western collieries yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sydney Shortage of Coal "Desperate"
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Declaring that the shortage of coal was desperate, officials of the Commonwealth Coal Commission urged…
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