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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1948

1,843 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 37 of 93

Hear Dispute When Miners Resume

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 3 June 1948 · page 2

Stanford Main No. 2 miners lodge will meet this morning to discuss an order by the Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr…

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Miners' Leaders Go To W.A.

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 3 June 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Miners' leaders have gone to Western Australia, as a result of the Delegate Board at Collie clashing with the…

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Retired Miners' Request on Pension Rise

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 3 June 1948 · page 4

Belmont-Swansea branch of the Retired Mineworker Pensioners' Association decided to seek the cooperation of the Miners'…

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Coal Board Trophies For Lithgow League

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 3 June 1948 · page 6

LITHGOW, Wednesday.— The Joint Coal Board is to provide trophies to the value of about £70 to Lithgow Rugby League—a shield…

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Against Night Work For Coal Loading

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 3 June 1948 · page 4

Members of the Carrington Coal and Coke Shipping Union told Mr. Justice Ferguson, of the State Industrial Commission, at West Mail…

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Mr. Chifley Has Faith In Joint Coal Board

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 3 June 1948 · page 1

CANBERRA, Wednesday.—Mr. Chifley said to-day he believed the Joint Coal Board would succeed in the attempt to rehabilitate the coal…

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Miners Seek More for Filling Coal

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 4 June 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY: An application by the Northern Branch of the Miners' Federation for an increase in rates to 3/6d a ton for filling and shooting machine-cut coal was heard by the Coal Industry Tribunal…

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Coal Output Improves

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 4 June 1948 · page 4

Coal production in the State improved yesterday. The loss was 5427 tons, caused by the idleness of two mines in the North four in…

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Coal Board "Not All-Powerful"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 4 June 1948 · page 2

The Joint Coal Board was not all-powerful, Mr. D. Bivens, Cessnock solicitor, said last night in an address under the auspices of…

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Coal Board Grant To Rugby League

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 4 June 1948 · page 2

The Joint Coal Board has made a grant of £220 for trophies to be competed for by the Cessnock and Kurri Rugby League clubs this…

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British Coal for the World Market

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 4 June 1948 · page 1

Cardiff, England, has its Dyke End. The picture is of a section of Queen Alexendra Dock, Cardiff, with the Lloyd George…

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Ask Coal Board For Grant To Repair Road

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 4 June 1948 · page 3

A public meeting at Marks Point last night decided to ask the Joint Coal Board to pay 60 per cent. of repairing the Marks Point Road…

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Best Production Day by Northern Mines for Some Weeks

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 4 June 1948 · page 3

Today's coal production on the northern fields was the best in weeks. Only one mine was idle for an output loss of about 670 tons. This was Maitland Main…

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Two Hurt In Mines

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 June 1948 · page 2

Andrew Corliss, 21, of Murnain-street, Wallsend, a shunter at Burwood colliery, had his pelvis fractured when he was caught…

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Northern Coal Output High

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 June 1948 · page 2

The Northern District yesterday had its best coal production day for several weeks. Only two mines were idle for a loss of 1150 tons…

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Gunmen Rob Mine, Shoot Manager

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 June 1948 · page 1

SINGAPORE, June 4.—A Cornishman, E. V. Dabb, manager of Idris Hydraulic Tin Limited, near Kampar, about 30 miles south of…

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Decision Reserved on Miners' Claim

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 June 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday.—The Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. F. H. Gallagher) to-day reserved his decision on a claim by the Northern…

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Cardiff Coal Traffic "Damaging Roads"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 June 1948 · page 3

Cardiff Progress Association, through Mr. G. Booth, M.L.A., will ask that a siding be built near Sulphide Junction Station, to avoid…

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Letters To the Editor. Coal Wastage

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 7 June 1948 · page 2

The Minister for Mines (Mr. Baddeley) is quoted as having stated that although coal was more valuable than gold bad mining…

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Coal Output Improving: B.h.p. Mill Back

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 7 June 1948 · page 3

With B.H.P. coal stocks building up gradually the 10-in. merchant bar and skelp mill at the Steel Works in Newcastle resumed production today after a week's idleness…

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