Arrears Dividend For Caledonian Collieries
Thu directors of Caledonian Colleries Ltd. announced yesterday dividend on cumulative preference capital of 5 Per cent., being arrears…
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Mining & the mines, 1949
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Steel Works Again Faces Coal Crisis
Another coal crisis faces the Steel Works as a result of a strike begun at Burwood colliery yesterday. The mine will not work again to-day. The Manager of the B.H.P…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →No Federal Plan to Import Coal
CANBERRA, Wednesday.—The Victorian and South Australian Governments were considering importing coal to overcome shortages,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mine Host Fastest In Soft Going On Sydney Tracks
SYDNEY: Mine Host, top-weight for the Flying Handicap on Saturday at Canterbury, ran an excellent five furlongs in 1.4 on a dead track at Moorefield today. He carried J. Waterhouse, who…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Two Entombed in Lead Mine
BROKEN HILL, Thursday.—Relief workers were working at top pressure to-night at North Mine, where between the 1850 and 2100ft…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mines Seen in Shipping Lanes
BRISBANE, Thursday.—Shipping an North Queensland waters had been warned of five floating mines is shipping lanes off Coolstown,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miner Caught in Coal Fall
Caught by a fall of coal in Pacific Colliery yesterday, Patrick Purcell, 28, of Third-street, Booragel, Teralba, a miner, suffered a fracture…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Grim Race To Save Entombed Miners
BROKEN HILL: More than 30 miners are working frantically to reach two of their workmates entombed 2000 feet below the surface in the North Broken Hill mine…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Suggests Rail Shift To Get Coal
The Northern District Miners' Check Inspector (Mr. J. Barrett) suggests that a railway line which passes over Bellbird colliery lease…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Relays In Attempt To Save Miners
BROKEN HILL, Friday.— Relief parties of men worked 2000 feet below the surface in relays last night from 8 o'clock…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Likely To Make Changes In Branxton
If the long range plans of the Joint Coal Board are carried out, some big changes in Branxton are likely. Prior to the decision of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cannot Nationalise Coal, Steel
The Prime Minister advised Newcastle Trades Hall Council that the Federal Government had no power under the Constitution to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hope Abandoned For Entombed Miners
BROKEN HILL, Sunday.—Hope has been abandoned of finding alive the two miners trapped in a fall of earth at North mine on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Minmi Request To Coal Board
The annual meeting of Minmi Progress Association decided to ask the Joint Coal Board for aid to Proceed with [?]rth work on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners' Argument In Weekly Hire Case
The Miners' Federation proposed to show by evidence that maintenance work that had been performed in certain mines during periods of breakdowns was work that should have been done…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Heavy Coal Loss Today, Despite Resumption of Train Services
Though goods and passenger train services conducted by South Maitland Railways have resumed there was again today a heavy loss of coal output from mines on the Cessnock-Kurri field. Total THE COAL INDUSTRY TRIBUNAL (Mr. F. Gallagher) heard an application in Newcastle today involving the principle of weekly hiring and all sections of the industry were represented. In the group waiting to appear before Mr. Gallagher are the secretary of the Northern Colliery Proprietors' Association (Mr. R. A. Davie), the president of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Waggons Stream to Coalfield Lift Gas Coal: Railmen Back
Shortly after midnight last night a shuttlecock service was began on the Newcastle-Cessnock coal traffic line in an attempt to clear 20,000 tone of gas coal at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Britain's Coal Board Tough With Miners
LONDON, Tues. (A.A.P.): Britain's Coal Board is getting tough with the miners. It has bluntly told the National Union of Mineworkers that the men can expect no more wage rises or other concessions until they produce more coal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mines "Behind in Maintenance"
Unless urgent maintenance work is carried out at Aberdare Extended and other collieries, the Miners' Federation would consider withdrawing labour from then, the Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Distributions Worry Board
SYDNEY, Monday.—A spokesman for the Joint Coal Board said to-night that there was a general coal shortage. The board…
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