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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1948

1,843 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 41 of 93

Miners' Application Fails Filling Claim 'Not Substantiated'

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 June 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday.—In a reserved judgment to-day, the Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. Gallagher) refused to grant Northern miners an increased shooting and filling rate of pay for machine-cut coal…

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Coal Arrives, Sugar Refining Plant Resumes

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 June 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday.—The Colonial Sugar Refining Company, which closed down its Pyrmont plant yesterday because of the coal shortage,…

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Report Of Higher Gold Price Denied

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 19 June 1948 · page 4

WASHINGTON, Friday (A.A.P.). — A U.S. Treasury spokesman and the Australian and South African Embassies…

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Additional Rail Sidings to Help Coal Deliveries

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 June 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday.—Additional railway sidings will be built in New South Wales coalfield areas to speed up the distribution of coal…

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Coal Losses at 2 B.H.P. Pits

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 June 1948 · page 3

Attempts by the Steel Works to build up coal stocks to enable a return to normal production received a set-back yesterday, as the…

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Miners' Board to Meet

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 21 June 1948 · page 2

The miners' Northern Board of Management will, begin an ordinary general meeting at Newcastle to-morrow. The meeting is expected…

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Coal Shortage Affects Sugar

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 21 June 1948 · page 2

SYDNEY.—The lack of coal has caused a further deterioration in Sydney's sugar supply position…

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Coal Tribunal Declares That Position Is "Intolerable"

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 21 June 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY: Stating that the coal production position today was intolerable, the Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. F. H. Gallagher) told representatives of the Miners' Federation this morning that…

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Industrial Outlook Grim: Bad Day At Mines, Plants

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 21 June 1948 · page 1

Newcastle began the industrial week to-day disastrously Eleven northern coal mines were idle for a production floss of 11,000 tons, 1500 men from the Commonwealth Steel…

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Suburban and District Fassifern Requests To Coal Board

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 21 June 1948 · page 3

Fassifern Progress Association decided to form itself into an amenities committee. It will ask the Joint Coal Board…

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More Coal Used, Say Miners

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 22 June 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY: Though coal output was up consumption had increased by 200,000 tons, a spokesman for the Miners' Federation said today, quoting figures released by the Joint Coal Board. Output from December 27…

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Down a Mine

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 June 1948 · page 4

ONE SUNDAY I had a thrilling experience. Dad took me down the pit where he works. I was a little frightened when we started…

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Mishap at Mine

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 22 June 1948 · page 3

John Shone, 19, of Albert St., Horseshoe Bend, West Maitland, a wheeler at Bloomfield Main Colliery, received severe…

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Stop Press Miners' Board Decision

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 22 June 1948 · page 8

The Northern Miners' Board of Management endorsed the claim by miners for increased tonnage rates for filling machine-cut coal. Unless…

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Miners' Board To Consider Strike

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 June 1948 · page 1

The Northern Miners' Board of Management will be asked to-day to consider ordering a stoppage of all mines in the district. Delegates from five mines…

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Adelaide Has More Coal Trouble

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 June 1948 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Monday.—A recurrence of power restrictions started to-night, due to failure of coal supplies…

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Victorian Plan to Save Coal

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 22 June 1948 · page 7

MELBOURNE: An advisory committee is to be set up to investigate the possibilities of converting Victorian factory…

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Upheaval Threat Coal Tribunal Orders Work

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 22 June 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY: The Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. F. Gallagher) today took swift action in an attempt to avert a threatened stoppage of all Northern coal mines…

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Compulsory Mine Conference

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 23 June 1948 · page 1

MINING CONFERENCE.—Some of the delegates who attended a compulsory conference called by the Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. Gallagher) in Newcastle this morning on filling rates for machine-cut coal. The conference ended in a…

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Striking Miners Reject Order

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 23 June 1948 · page 1

The Coal Industry Tribunal's order to employees of five Northern mines to work to-day will not be observed. The mines—Burwood,…

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