Coal Board Gives Concert Piano
The Joint Coal Board will make a gift of a concert piano to the Cessnock-Kurri Cultural Committee…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1948
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Coal Board to Buy £400 Piano
The Joint Coal Board will buy Cessnock and Kurri Kurri District Entertainment and Cultural Committee a grand piano at the cost…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners' Board Moves To End Tunnel Dispute
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Southern Miners' Delegate Board, in Wollongong to-morrow, will try to decide action to force a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Board Man To Study In U.S.
The Cessnock Assistant District Engineer of the Joint Coal Board (Mr. W. J. Seward) will leave by plane on…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Strike Threat in Southern Mines
SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Southern Miners' Delegate Board decided in Wollongong to-day to call aggregate meetings to consider a general stoppage of South Coast mines if the Kemira dispute is not…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Stopwork Threat By South Coast Miners
SYDNEY: Miners on the South Coast threaten to hold stopwork meetings next Wednesday, to consider a general stoppage on that field (output 10,000 tons daily) unless a dispute is settled in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mine First-Aid Gear "20 Years Behind"
FIRST-AID equipment in mines was 20 years behind the times, the Chief Medical Officer for the Joint Coal Board (Dr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gay Talk And Gold Valley For Cessnock Double
Gay Talk (Flying) and Gold Valley (Cessnock Hep.) are favored for the chief races at the opening of the newly formed Cessnock Jockey Club tomorrow. 1.45—Mdn. 3-Y.-0. Five furlongs…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Mine Disputes Threaten Christmas Coal Reserves
Unsettled issues on northern and southern New South Wales minefields could seriously jeopardise efforts to establish an adequate Christmas reserve of coal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →General Mine Strike Looms
SYDNEY, Friday.—A general stoppage of all New South Wales mines was possible unless the Kemira dispute was settled by Wednesday, the General President of the Miners' Federation (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →State Coal Output Still High
The high average rate of coal output in the State was maintained yesterday. Less than 4000 tons was lost…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Polish Ship Blown Up By Mine
COPENHAGEN. Saturday (A.A.P.).—The crew of 31 and 10 passengers, including a British woman, were rescued…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Engineers Of Coal Board For U.S.
The Assistant District Engineer of the Coal Board at Cessnock (Mr. W. Seward) will leave for the United States on October 13…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners' Lodge Moves To Curb Stoppages
To reduce stoppages, Maitland Main Miners' Lodge had decided to ban pit-top meetings and form a committee to set up a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Postponed Attempt To Salvage Gold
WELLINGTON (N.Z.). October 3. A.A.P.-Reuter.—The attempt to salvage the remainder of gold in the sunken liner Niagara has been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Britain Needs More Coal Next Year
LONDON, Mon. (A.A.P.).—Fuel Minister Hugh Gaitskell announced that 12.000,000 to 15,000,000 more tons of coal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →2600 Tons of Coal Lost Today
Stoppages at northern N.S.W. mines today caused a coal production loss of 2,600 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ask French Miners to Strike To-day
PARIS, Oct. 3. A.A.P.—The Miners' Federation, which is affiliated with the communist-led French General Confederation of Labour,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Southern Mines May Stop
SYDNEY: A general coal stoppage on the South Coast is threatened from tomorrow on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Southern Mine Dispute Still Unsettled
SYDNEY, Monday.—South Coast miners intended to proceed with stopwork meetings next Wednesday on the Kemira dispute, the…
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