Coal Output Improved
Coal production improved yesterday when only three mines were idle in the State. Second biggest coal producing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1946
1,987 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 16 of 100
Goanna Held Up Mine
Mines have been held up because of a horse's breath, ants in a miner's crib the disappearance of a miner's boot, and so on, but not until…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →£8500 for British Coal Chief
LONDON, March 13. A.A.P.—Lord Hyndley, Chairman of the National Coal Board, will receive £8500 a year, and members of the board will…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"N.S.W. Miners' Conditions Best in World"
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Fostering by unions, politicians and others of the impression that coalmining was a special industry which must…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Report Prepared on Mining Industry
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Chairman of the Board of Inquiry into the coalmining industry (Mr. Justice Davidson) said to-day that he had…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Stoppage of Western Mines Averted
LITHGOW.—A blackout of western towns as far as Bathurst and a stoppage of all western mines, threatened by a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Says "Putty Fingers" Cost Nation Coal
CANBERRA., Thursday.—Because of the Government's "putty-fingered" handling of industrial disputes, more than a million and a quarter tons…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Letters to Editor the Gold Standard
Sir,—Let me point out to "Toiler" ("N.M.H.," 11/3/46) that if he wants to understand the gold standard he must consult past history. The time…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners' Choirs Urged Counter "Furious Frenzies" on Air
CANBERRA, Thursday.—Broad casting of regular eisteddfods with reconstituted coalfields choirs arid others participating is advocated by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. James Recommends Federal Aid To Coal Industry
The Australian coal industry should have some form of national direction or control, and financial assistance was imperative. In the national interest the Commonwealth Government should contribute towards these costs…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →British Coal Policy Minister Replies to Miners
LONDON, March 15. A.A.P.—One of the principal objects of the Government policy on nationalising mining was to achieve the kind of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Only One Mine Idle
The only mine not working in the State yesterday was Richmond Main, in the North, which concluded a week of idleness. A…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Nationalise Mines South Coast Miners Seek Referendum
SYDNEY, Sunday.—South Coast miners claim that nationalisation of the coal and other heavy industries should be one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Swansea Mine-Owner Hurt
SYDNEY, Sunday.—A Swansea mineowner, Mr. Charles Cam, 64, of Dover Heights, who is also a noted fisherman, was among six people…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal—The Wider View
IN the unpretentious report on his inquiries into coal mining abroad which Mr. Rowley James, M.H.R., has presented to the Federal…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Progress Association At Coal Point
In order to take some concerted action to improve roads leading to Coal Point, and to press for a better bus service, 49 residents formed the Coal Point Progress Association…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners to Protest Will Not Do Other Work
SYDNEY, Sunday.—The Southern District Delegate Board of the Miners' Federation adopted the Central Executive's recommendation that an…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →South African Gold Miners on Strike
LONDON, Monday.—Six thousand men from 20 gold mines In South Africa are on strike in sympathy with a mine worker who was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners' Disciplinary Code Described As 'Unworkable'
The degree of observance of the miners' disciplinary code in the weeks to come will be of particular interest as the code has a number of critics among lodge executives and members who doubt whether it will work out in practice…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal Dispute Judge for Cessnock Tomorrow
SYDNEY—The President of the Industrial Commission (Mr. Justice Taylor) will leave for Cessnock tomorrow to…
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