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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
1,987 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 78 of 100
Installation of power-borers was number one priority on the list of mechanical equipment to be installed in mines under the new Coal Bill to increase production, the miners' Northern President (Mr. W. Crook) said yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY: Mechanisation of the State coal mine at Lithgow, construction of new hospitals and a start on building the Eastern Suburbs (Sydney) railway are among projects included in the £29,000,000 State works loan programme…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sir.—I agree with Mr. Jack ("N.M.H.," 25/9/46) that mine pensioners need better conditions. Unlike the old-age and invalid pensioners…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Secretary of the Southern and Western Coalowners (Mr. W. F. McNally) said that coalowners would oppose…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Only one of the 112 mines in New South Wales was idle yesterday. It was Metropolitan, in the South. This mine, which his a daily…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →CANBERRA, Thursday.—No decision has yet been reached on the appointment of the Coal Board to carry out the joint…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—South Coast miners to-day rejected a proposal to work an eight-hour shift on the Sixhour Day holiday next Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MELBOURNE Thursday.—Allegations that a brown coal mine at Bacchus Marsh had been used as a decoy to defraud members of the public on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →MELBOURNE, Thursday.—The seriousness of the coal position for the Queensland railways was stressed by the State Commissioner…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal loss this week of 14,190 tons is one of the lowest weekly output losses of the year. The recent good working record of the northern coalfields was main-…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →With only Stanford Main No. 2 idle yesterday, the Northern coalfields finished one of the year's best coal weeks. One…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SYDNEY, Friday.—Hundreds of tons of coal were being lost daily because of a shortage of tyres and tubes for bicycles used by miners…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY: Gold Caste, who only finished third at his last start at Wyong, easily won the Kensington Handicap at…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →MELBOURNE, Friday.—During the heating at the Criminal Court of fraud charges against eight men arising from the operation of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Interstate coal allocations from the output of the north, em N.S.W. coalfields this week reached the highest figure for many weeks. More than 53,000 tons were allotted to Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and Queensland and 2000 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →If boring and prospecting were successful, the Government would open mines at Muswellbrook, Awaba and Burragorang Valley, the Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Hunter Federal Council of the A.L.P. decided yesterday to urge the appointment of a Minister for Coal and Fuel…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Stockrington No. 2 colliery, the only Northern mine idle yesterday, will resume to-day. The loss was about 950 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The idleness of four mines— three due to industrial disputes and one because of the death yesterday of a minor—resulted in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY: The State Government's scheme providing full compensation for "dusted" miners in South Coast mines would be extended to the Northern and Western mines, said the Minister i for Labor and Industry (Mr. Hamilton Knight) today…
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