Pulverised Brown Coal for Victoria
MELBOURNE.—Efforts to ease the perpetual N.S.W. coal shortage will be made by the Victorian Railway Department shortly in experiments…
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Mining & the mines, 1947
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Plan To Transfer Huts For Miners At Muswellbrook
CANBERRA, Tuesday.— Arrangements for the large-scale transfers of Army huts to Muswellbrook to provide emergency housing for miners was…
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Stoppages at mines on the northern coalfields cost about 3600 tons of production today. This brings the week's norm them total to date to approximately 12,000 tons. Throughout the State eight mines…
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Two of the mines idle in the North yesterday had been expected to resume. Instructions had been issued to men to report for work…
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CANBERRA, Wednesday.—Coal production in New South Wales for 1946—11,186,383 tons—was the highest since 1943, the Minister for Supply and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Chifly Makes Hot Denial Of Move To Nationalise Coal
CANBERRA: The Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) hotly denied in the House of Representatives today that any move would be made to "get around" the Constitution to nationalise coal mines in Australia…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Huge Sale Of Britain's Gold Reserves To U.S. Reported
WASHINGTON, Wed. (A.A.P. & O.S.R.): Britain is reliably reported to have sold the United States another 120,000,000 dollars (£37,500,000) worth of bullion from her gold reserves, bringing her recent gold sales to 200,000,000 dollars…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Action Sought On Mine Amenities
SYDNEY, Thursday.—A two-day conference of the Welfare Division of the Joint Coal Board opened in Sydney to-day to speed up plans for the provision of amenities on the New South Wales coalfields…
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CANBERRA: Whether mineworkers would, lose the extra five days holiday at Christmas because of the drop in coal production was a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miner Caught by Coal Fall
Caught by a fall of coal in Waratah colliery, Jack Scott, 40, miner, of Bunn-street. Wallsend, suffered a fractured left leg, and abrasions to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Chifley To Hear Miners' Claims
CANBERRA, Thursday.—The Minis-day Mr. Chifley will hear claims by miners for improvements in the scheme for payment of compensation to dusted…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Diver To Go Down 438ft. For Niagara's Gold
Diver John Johnstone, who helped to recover gold valued at £2,400,000 from the wreck of the Niagara, sunk by a mine off the coast of New…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →U.K. Sells More Gold for Dollars "Herald" Service and A.A.P.
LONDON, Oct. 9.—United States Treasury source reported last night that Britain was in the process of selling a further £37,500,000 worth of gold to the United States to meet immediate "hard…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cut Coal Without Miners With Electric "Brain" "Herald" London Service
The application to industry of the electric "brain" which piloted a plane across the Atlantic would enable coal to be cut without miners. It would…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Only 2 Northern Mines Idle
There was work at all but two of the northern coalfields mines yesterday. The idle mines were Richmond Main (1800 tons) and Pacific (425…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →British Miners Approve Longer Working Hours
LONDON, Oct. 10. A.A.P.—The Mineworkers' Union delegate conference unanimously approved of the agreement reached with the National…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Pension Increase Claimed By Retired Miners
At a meeting of the District Delegate Board of the Retired Mineworkers' Association at Federation House, Union-street, the Secretary (Mr. H…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Gold Valley Pleases At Broadmeadow
Gold Valley was the most pleasing worker at Broadmeadow this morning with five furlongs in 1.8, 40 feet out on the No. 3 Grass…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Miners' Support For Mr. Cain During Campaign
SYDNEY, Friday.—The General President of the Miners' Federation (Mr. Williams) and the General Secretary (Mr. Grant) advised the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Weekly Coal Output of 300,000 Tons Needed
SYDNEY, Friday.—Miners' leaders told mine-workers to-night that stoppages on the coalfields would have to be reduced to a minimum it sufficient coal supplies were to be provided for…
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