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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
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SYDNEY: A plan for the nationalisation of the coal industry submitted to the annual conference of the official Labor Party to-day concedes the majority of the miners' demands and is more drastic than the proposed Commonwealth Government scheme…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AMSTERDAM, June 17. A.A.P.—Fourteen members of the crew of the Netherlands steamer Meerkerk (8000 tons) are missing since the vessel…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A stoppage of all mines on the South Maitland coalfields is threatened for June 24. Unless the matter in dispute, which affects members of the Deputies' Association, is settled by this date the trouble may extend to involve all…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY: Green and Gold was perfectly ridden in the Randwick Juvenile by J. Duncan, who varied his usual style, waiting until the straight and then racing his mount through to win in a hard finish…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →SYDNEY, Sunday.—As the first and essential step to the nationalisation of the coal industry, the State A.L.P. conference decided unanimously o endorse the recommendation to establish immediately a central Commonwealth-State…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON. Sunday.—Nearly 30,000 workers will be discharged from British coalmines in the next six weeks in an effort to make the industry less…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Monday.—The Victory Day and King's Birthday holidays had considerably retarded coal production throughout Australia, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →With three mines on the northern coalfields idle and another only partly manned, production loss today was almost 4000 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY: Craft unions associated with the mining industry are alarmed that the current Government planning for control of the industry may result in their members in the industry virtually coming under control of the Miners' Federation…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners' plans for the commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the discovery of coal in Australia have been explained in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Struck by a wire rope at Bellbird Colliery today. George Sellars, 25, of Tenant Street. Bellbird, had a piece of wire embedded in his right arm…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →John Beale, 22, of Charlestown, screen hand at Lambton B mine, Redhead, suffered a hernia and shock while lifting a heavy article…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Drafting of legislation to set up the joint Commonwealth-State authority to control the New South…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LITHGOW, Tuesday.—Machinery has been transferred from the Commonwealth open-cut coalmine at Lidsdale to Ben Bullen, where…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hopes were expressed yesterday that by the end of the week there will be an adjustment of the dispute involving Maitland mine deputies…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CANBERRA: The Commonwealth is preparing to rush through the present Parliamentary session legislation to enable it to carry out its coal industry rehabilitation plans. N.S.W. Parliamentary draftsmen…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Actual and probable coal reserves in N.S.W. are more than 21 times the total amount so far extracted in 150 years of mining, according to Mr. E. O. Rayner, a Mines Department geologist. Addressing Newcastle Business…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sir,—All critics of the proposal of the Miners' Central Council to provide homes for our officials ignore the fact that the rank and file at all…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →There was an improvement in coal production figures yesterday with only one mine, Abermain No 1, on strike, another, Bennont, Idle…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Still affected by wartime economies and shortages, Australia's hotels are by no means unanimous upon the value of the tourist trade. Mr. W. J. Hesleburst, the "One Man Tourist Bureau," has found this out in a recent survey of five States…
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