Surprise Coal For Adelaide
ADELAIDE, Tuesday.—The fire on the British freighter Wanford, which had to put into Port Adelaide on her way with a cargo of coal…
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Mining & the mines, 1948
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Mine Host To Be Spelled
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Mine Host, who appears to have lost his early brilliance through hard racing, is to be turned out for a spell…
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LITHGOW, Tuesday.— Rail transport from the Ben Bullen and Cullen Bullen coalfield areas may virtually cease if Lithgow branch of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Crisis Continues Some Pits Idle
Today brought no appreciable change in the N.S.W. coal crisis. After two working days free of strikes on the northern coalfields, disputes stopped work at some mines in the district today and there…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A Government inter-departmental committee met the Joint Coal Board to-day on coal allocations…
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MOVES to disaffiliate with the A.L.P. were discounted last night by the Northern Miners' President (Mr. W. Crook) and…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Serious trouble might develop on the South Coast coalfields if the three-week-old dispute at Excelsior mine was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. Fadden Urges Coal Survey
CANBERRA, Wednesday.—No adequate survey had been made of Australian coal resources, the leader of the Country Party (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mine Expert on Tour of West
LITHGOW, Wednesday.—Mr. Wt. M. Merritts, of the Safety Division of the Bureau of Mines, Washington, who is an expert on…
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Coal production on the northern field today was good. Stoppages caused a loss of output of a little more than 2000 tons, but more than 1000 tons of this was due to the wet weather…
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Two colliers, weather-bound in Newcastle since yesterday, sailed for Sydney this morning with urgently needed coal. The Hetton Bank had 1850…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Joint Coal Board was informed yesterday the minimum requirements of the Railway Department…
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After being free from industrial disputes on Friday and Tuesday—qualifying days for payment for Monday's holiday—the Northern…
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MELBOURNE. — The locomotive of the Mildura-Melbourne train ran out of coal when still 200 miles from…
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LITHGOW, Thursday.—The Joint Coal Board has approved a grant of £2657/10/ to rebuild and renovate Portland School of Arts…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Coal Board had agreed to make 30,000 tons of coal a week available to the Railway Department, the…
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SYDNEY, Thursday—Coal production was affected by frequent disputes in the March quarter of 1948, and improved only slightly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Idleness of B.h.p. Mines Holds Up Steel Products
The resumption of full operations at the Steel Works in Newcastle will be further delayed because of stoppages of work at two big B.H.P. mines today. These stoppages will deprive…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coroner Investigates Death In Mine
The Cessnock District Coroner (Mr. W, Johnston) yesterday afternoon returned a verdict of death by natural causes…
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LITHGOW, Friday.—The President of the Western District of the Miners' Federation (Mr. E. Mara) will visit Glen Davis shale mine…
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