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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
1,987 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 55 of 100
SYDNEY: All southern mines are now idle, including Corrimal, which was working short staffed yesterday. Including the smaller pits, there are now more than 4000 mine workers involved at 20 pits for a loss of more than 10,000…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Miners' leaders said to-night that they expected a settlement of the South Coast dispute to be reached at a compulsory conference to-morrow…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →HOBART, Tuesday.—Following the closing of the Briseis tin mine at Derby because of a tremendous fall of earth, 35 men have been given a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CANBERRA, Tuesday.— Late to-night it was uncertain that the Federal Government's Coal Bill would be introduced in the House of Representatives to-morrow…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CANBERRA: Assistance to proprietors of coalmines with limited financial resources is to be provided through the Coal Bill. The Authority which the bill sets up is given powers to advance funds for the provision of mechanisation, 'improved safety measures…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Though three mines on the northern coalfields which had been idle or partly idle returned to work today, production loss…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MORE coal has been lost by strikes on the New South Wales coalfields in the last three days than for any week…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY.—The sesqui-centenary year of the discovery of coal in Australia will be commemorated by the Miners' Federation with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Electrical Engineer and Manager (Mr. Allbut) told Greater Newcastle Council last night that Glenbrook colliery wanted an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, July 24. A.A.P.— A committee of four experts has been established to study the coal situation in Germany and prepare a report for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Wednesday.—All South Coast mines will resume work to-morrow, after a three-day strike. A direction to return to work was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →WITH more than 3000 tons of coal for Melbourne, the William Melbourne is held up in Newcastle Harbour. Members of the crew are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, Wednesday: Facing a deficit in coal stocks of about 5,000,000 tons next winter, the Government has arranged with industrial concerns and the railways to burn fuel oil instead of coal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY: After considering a request by Mr. McNally (representing the Southern coalowners) that the hearing of Miners' Federation claims for increased rates for miners taken from the coal-face to do other work be postponed because five South Coast…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY: Ignoring a direction by their leaders to resume work today, miners at all but five South Coast collieries today continued their strike to force claims for compensation payment to miners transferred from the coal face…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →CANBERRA, Wednesday.—There was an expansion and frustration among miners which only a "new deal" for the industry had a hope of expunging, Mr. Dedman said in his second reading speech in the Coal Bill in the House of Representatives to-night…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CANBERRA: The first real fight over the Coal Bill, now before the House of Representatives, is likely when the measure goes before the N.S.W. Upper House. Ministers expect bitter opposition…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CANBERRA, Wednesday.— Federal Government's Coal Bill was introduced in the House of Representatives to-night. The bill designed to set up a joint Federal and State…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—The miners' leaders and coal-owners' representatives will hold separate conferences in Sydney tomorrow to discuss the impact of the Coal Bill on the New South Wales coal industry…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Coal Industry Bill is an unusual piece of legislation in chat it skirts constitutional difficulties and attempts to bridge…
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