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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
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The effect on Newcastle industries of the 20 per cent, coal cut announced by the Joint Coal Board is uncertain. Most industries have not yet considered what effect the reduced coal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Friday.—The Joint Coal Board to-day announced a 20 per cent. cut in coal supplied from Monday to all consumers except hospitals, food processors and shipping, railway, electricity and gas…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →WOLLONGONG, Sunday.—The 150th anniversary of the discovery of coal in Australia will be commemorated in August…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY: The coal mining industry, was "just not capable of meeting demands" The President of the Miners Federation (Mr. Idris Williams) said today. Mr. Williams said that right…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Sunday.—Coal cuts for the steel, shipping, gas and electricity industries would be determined by treating them individually and "on their merits," the Acting Chairman of the Joint Coal Board…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Newcastle engineering firms are not likely to feel any immediate effect of the 20 per cent, coal cut unless the source of their supplies of raw materials is affected, spokesmen for the companies said today…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rankin Park Hospital, at New Lambton, will receive its first nine patients on Thursday. Seven will be transferred from the Western Suburbs Hospital at Waratah and the others brought from their homes. The hospital will take 104 patients. Above: Nurse E…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY: If coal strikes this year had only been halved there would have been 500,000 tons more…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Monday.—Miners' leaders will ask the Minister for Supply (Senator Ashley) in Sydney on Wednesday to place the Australian coal industry under uniform control, so that more coal can be produced…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The State coal loss yesterday was 1760 tons, caused by stoppages at Stockrington No. 1 (North) and Excelsior (South)…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Coal losses rose today to 6000 tons the highest figure for a fortnight. Burwood one of the [?].H.P [?]its…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Stockrington No. 1 Miners' Lodge will be advised by the Northern Miners' Board of Management to work tomorrow pending an inspection of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CANBERRA, Monday.—Minesweeping operations off the Australian east coast were expected to be finished by the end of the year, said…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →It is true, as Mr. Williams, President of the Miners' Federation, argues, that the coal mining industry is "just not capable of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Northern Miners' Board of Management will to-day arrange for the election of eight delegates to the June conference of the Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →OTTAWA. Monday.—The price of gold will be one of the main topics that President Truman and the Prime Minister of Canada (Mr. McKenzie…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →AUCKLAND, Monday.—"My opinion is that New Zealand miners will be enjoying a 35-hour working week by next January if they are…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Joint Coal Board has asked Queensland to provide 6000 tons of coal a week to ease the shortage in New South Wales. The Acting Fuel Utilisation Engineer of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Scientific experiments, carried out in the stokehold of a British tramp steamer, have shown that smoke can be eliminated and coal saved by a simple and inexpensive device. British merchant ships consume about 5,000,000 tons of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →LONDON, June 9. A.A.P.—The Minister of Fuel (Mr. Shinwell) told miners' leaders at Cardiff that the coal production target of 200 million…
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