Coal Position At B.H.P. Steel Works
Coal stocks at the B.H.P. Steel Works at Port Waratah at present total, 3400 tons. Output of about 3000 tons at Burwood and Stockton…
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Mining & the mines, 1949
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Found Injured Near Colliery
A deputy employed at Abermain No. 2 Colliery was found with facial and head injuries near the mine shaft early this…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →No Coal, No Train—So No Coal
THE RAILWAY Department advised Burwood miners' lodge yesterday that it could not give the miners a special train for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Prospecting Near Glendonbrook
If the long range plans of the Joint Coal Board materialise, the area around the small and scattered district of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Board To Seek Coal At Glendon Brook
SINGLETON, Friday. — The Joint Coal Board has been granted authority to enter 1360½ acres in Glendon Brook area for the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Critical Period Of Coal Production Is Now
What has become almost an annual crisis in coal supply has developed earlier than usual this year. Altogether, apart from the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cessnock High School Seeks Coal Board Aid
Cessnock High School Parents and Citizens' Association criticised the Joint Coal Board for haring refused assistance to improve the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rail Dispute Threat to Coal
SYDNEY. — A compulsory conference is being held in Sydney today to discuss a dispute about appointment of a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lambton Miners Vote "Work" John Darling To Decide To-day
Lambton miners voted at a special lodge meeting yesterday for a return to work this morning. John Darling miners will vote again on the issue at a pit-top…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mines Resume; B.H.P. To Reabsorb Men In "Few Days"
With the three B.H.P. mines on the Newcastle field —Lambton, John Darling and Burwood—all working today, arrangements were made to restart units at the Steel Works and Stewarts and Lloyds thrown idle by the coal crisis and to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mine Injures Wedding Party
ATHENS, Feb. 21. A.A.P.—All the occupants, including the bride and bridegroom, were injured when a bus, carrying a wedding party of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Richest Gold Streak In The World"
PARIS, Feb. 21. A.A.P. — Gold quarrying will start soon at the foot of Treasure Mountain, in French Guiana, where an expedition of 18…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Output Up, But Still Many Disputes
With the return to work of the B.H.P. pits yesterday, coal production in the State improved, but there were disputes at seven mines…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →How Coal Stocks Fell at Steel Works
How low the B.H.P. Steel Works coal stocks have fallen is shown by this picture, taken yesterday. In the empty space in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →All Mine Unions to Seek 35 Hours, 30/- Wage Rise
SYDNEY.—All mining unions will press for a 35-hour week and a 30s wage increase—demands which had previously been confined to the Miners' Federation. The Combined Mining Unions' Council has adopted as…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Country Mine Taken Over By Coal Board
Great Greta colliery at Glendon Brook, near Singleton, has been taken over by the Joint Coal Board. A spokesman of the Coal Board…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pelton Miners Reject Work Order
Pelton miners, who were ordered yesterday by the Northern Miners' Management Board to resume this morning, decided last…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Unions' Log Expected Soon
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A log of claims by coalmining unions seeking a 35-hour week and a 30/ a week wage increase is expected to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners' Board Moves For Greater Safety
The Northern Miners' Management Board decided yesterday that the district's check inspectors investigate regulations governing the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Strikes Bring Threat Of New Coal Crisis
Strikes today by employees of South Maitland Railways and by miners at Curwood Colliery—biggest coal producer in the Commonwealth—threaten another coal crisis. The South Maftland Railways…
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