Victoria To Get Coal From South Africa
MELBOURNE, Friday.—The Victorian Government had arranged to import black coal from South Africa, the first shipment…
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Mining & the mines, 1948
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Candy Bars Worth Their Weight In Gold
SYDNEY, Friday.—James Reginald Rand, former airlines steward, alleged in the Special Federal Court to-day that Thomas Henry…
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SYDNEY.—Miners have been asked by the Miners' Federation Central Council to tell their doctors that their…
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SYDNEY: The Joint Coal Board, working in conjunction with the National Fitness Council, has decided to finance holidays this year for 100 miners' children in the Newcastle district and 50 in the…
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Unions concerned in a dispute which has kept Muswellbrook open-cut idle for more than a week will confer in Sydney to-day. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Board Decides Grant To Councils
When Cessnock Municipal Council and Kearsley Shire Council could not agree how the grant made by the Joint Coal Board…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Output Loss 9000 Tons Today
The working week in the mines started badly today with a coal production loss due to stoppages throughout the State of about 9000 tons. Of this quantity about 7500…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Board Reviews Grants To Councils
The Joint Coal Board has decided to reduce its annual amenities grant to Kearsley Shire Council and increase its grant to Cessnock Council. This decision was made following the failure of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In Brief Gold Department In The Basement
Nevada State Museum authorities have discovered real gold in a big model mine built in the museum basement. Excavators struck high-grade ore, the first two tons showing £20 worth of gold and £10 worth of silver…
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SYDNEY: The B.M.A. today sharply criticised the Communist Party and the Miners' Federation Central Council for attempting to "coerce" the medical profession into fully accepting the Government's free medical scheme…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Foot soreness which caused the scratching of Mine Host at Randwick on Saturday may prevent him from…
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The former naval hulk, Mombah, will arrive in Newcastle from Sydney to-morrow, in the tow of the Sydney tug, St. Giles…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—In a resolution adopted unanimously, the Central Council of the Miners' Federation urged the Federal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Board Awaits Vote of Miners on Pit Committees
No immediate action by the Joint Coal Board is expected to follow the Miners' Central Council decision against the board's proposal for pit conciliation committees…
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Caught by a fall of coal in Stockton Borehole mine, Daniel Cartwright, 57, of William-street, Holmesville, had his back, left elbow…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Henry Arrowsmith, 52, jeweller, was committed for trial, at the special Federal Court to-day, on two gold…
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ADELAIDE, Tuesday.—South Australia's coal shortage has become so acute that State Government officials appealed to-day to…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Miners' Federation will ask the Prime Minister to prevent the export of Queensland coal to China and…
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A special meeting of miners' lodge delegates in the North will he held at Newcastle on Monday to discuss the Central Council's decision rejecting conciliation committees…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Letters to Editor Needs of Mining
All this talk about miners and mining is confusing to the layman, it leads him to believe we have only to get plenty of men into the miners…
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