Coal Output Improves
Coal output in the State improved yesterday. Eight mines were idle for a loss of 5300 togs. Burwood, idle more than a week,…
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Mining & the mines, 1948
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"Victoria Will Get Coal"
SYDNEY.—Victoria was going to get coal unless it was stopped, said the Victorian Minister for Transport (Mr…
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State coal production again today was high, only 3000 tons being lost on all three coalfields as a result of stoppages. Five mines were idle, two of…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—A stoppage of all Western New South Wales open-cut mines next Monday is threatened by the Federated…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →All Gold, Piccadilly Lad For Newcastle
All Gold (Flying Handicap) and Piccadilly Lad (N.J.C. Handicap) are selected to win tomorrow's chief double at Newcastle. Bon Soir, in the second division of the Encourage Handicap, is the day's best wager…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Miners' Annual Holidays to Be Discussed at Conferences
SYDNEY: Conferences between representatives of employers, employees and the Joint Coal Board will be held seperately on the northern, western and southern coalfields as soon as possible to decide how miners will…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →No Coal, Lysaght's Mills Lose A Shift
Because of coal shortage, mills at Lysaght's works at Newcastle will close for the weekend eight hours early…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →B.H.P. Chief's View: Win All Coal Soon Mechanically
The day was not far distant when practically all coal would be mechanically mined, the Chief General Manager of B.H.P. Co. Ltd. (Mr. Essington Lewis) told the 20th annual meeting of the Bureau of Steel…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Delays Timber
Coal rationing is holding up the transport of timber from the North Coast and the State's building programme is…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—A compulsory conference in Sydney to-day averted a threatened stoppage of Western district open-cut mines on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Statements on Miners' Leave
Owing to an error in transmission, certain statements made by Mr. R. W. Davie (Northern Colliery Proprietors'…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—A uniform arrangement covering annual leave should be made for all mining districts, said the General President of the Miners' Federation (Mr. Williams)…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners Against Award For Boilermakers
The miners' Northern Board of Management decided yesterday to recommend to the Coalmining Unions' Council that it resist, by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners' Board Fines 17 Wheelers
"Seventeen wheelers who caused Maitland Main colliery to be idle yesterday were each fined £3 by the Miners' Northern Board of Management. The Iodge was instructed to…
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Maitland Man and Neath (continuation of strike) were the only idle mines in the North yesterday. Abermain No. 1 and Abermain…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Lack May Stop Building
SYDNEY, Friday.—If more coal was not made available to transport timber from country mills, building in Sydney would come to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Move to Recover Minmi Coal
At the request of the Joint Coal Board, J. and A. Brown and Abermain-Scaham Collieries Ltd, was investigating whether some of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Missing Man Found In Old Mine
A young man, missing from his home since Thursday afternoon was found in the tunnel, half a miles from the entrance, of a…
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LITHGOW, Friday.—The Western Miners' Federation issued a statement that it would consider the question of allowing Polish and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Western Miners Set Record In Week's Output
LITHGOW, Friday.—Allowing for tonnages diverted to local industry and domestic use, the western miners this week produced…
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