Board Hints At Coal Imports
SYDNEY, Monday.—Australia would have to import coal unless the coal shortage was overcome, the Secretary of the Joint Coal Board (Mr. N. F. Stuart) told the Coal Industry…
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Mining & the mines, 1948
1,843 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 56 of 93
Conference on Coal Point Bus Route
Coal Point Progress Association decided to invite councillors and officers of Lake Macquarie Shire Council to a conference to discuss…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Crisis Worsens: 20 Pits Idle Today
With 20 mines idle in N.S.W. today for an output loss of 13,000 tons, the coal crisis became even more serious. No prospects have yet emerged to avert the threatened…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Strikers Seize Mines
NICOSIA, August 3. A.A.P.—Striking miners occupied the British-American asbestos mines at Amiandos, reports Reuters…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Victory For Miners, Says Harrison, M.P.
SYDNEY: Indefinite adjournment of the Coal Tribunal hearing was a "complete victory for the Communist controlled Miners' Federation," said the Acting Leader of the Federal Opposition (Mr. E. J. Harrison) today. He accused the Federal and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Dispute Agreement Premier's Hopes On Production
An agreement reached between the Joint Coal Board and the Miners' Federation may not only end the present coal crisis but improve coal production…
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SYDNEY: There would be no general stoppage of N.S.W. coal mines tomorrow, representatives of the Miners' Federation and the Joint Coal Board informed the Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. F. Gallagher) this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners' Board To Meet On Disputes
THE Northern Miners' Board of Management is to meet of Friday on strikes at Hebburn No. 2 and Burwood collieries…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Seek More Coal To Rail Wheat
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The allocation of more coal to enable the railways to move 55 million bushels of last season's wheat to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Minister's Reply To Criticism On Coal
SYDNEY: The Minister for Shipping and Fuel (Senator Ashley) said today that the Acting Leader of the Opposition (Mr. Harrison) and Mr. Spender, M.H.R., were disappoined there had been a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →EDITORIAL. Facing Up To The Coal Problem
IT WOULD be a pity if the good intentions of Mr. Chifley about visiting the Coalfields went by the board now that the threatened general hold-up of coal production has been staved off…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Miners Likely to Hold Meetings on Stoppages Soon
Dates for combined meetings of northern miners' lodge committees to consider the federation's formula for elimination of petty stoppages are expected to be fixed by the Northern Management…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Mining Courses For Cessnock
Plans were in hand to erect a mining engineering building at Cessnock as part of a scheme to extend coalmining courses, the Minister…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Talks To-day Consider Board Output Plan
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Officials of all mining unions will confer with members of the Joint Coal Board to-morrow on proposals to increase production from New…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Burwood Dispute Miners Ignore Work Order
Although ordered to resume by the Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. Gallagher), Burwood miners will continue to remain idle to-day while the miners' Northern Board of Management discusses their strike…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Nationalisation Bill in New Zealand
WELLINGTON, (N.Z.), August 5. A.A.P.-Reuter.—A bill providing for the nationalisation of all privately-owned coal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mr. Chifley To Meet Miners On Coalfields
CANBERRA, Thursday.— Mr. Chifley to-day said he would visit the Northern and Southern coalfields of New South Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Back-saturday Shift in Mines May Begin on Aug. 14
Working of back Saturdays in the coalmining industry was expected to begin on Saturday. Aug. 14, a spokesman for the Joint Coal Board (Mr. J. Ormond) said in Sydney today…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →High Coal Exports
Despite heavy production losses on the northern field this week coal exports from Newcastle to southern States…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners' Invitation To Mr. Chifley
THE Miners Northern Board of Management decided yesterday to invite the Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) and Premier…
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