Coal Board Will Sponsor Tree Plating Scheme
Redhead Progress Association, which has endeavored to carry out a free planting scheme with the Lake Shire Council, will…
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Mining & the mines, 1949
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Letters to Editor Miners' Generosity
UNDER the heading "Miners' Generosity" ("N.M.H." 23/3/49) Mr. F. Manning takes me to task very severely for my alleged…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Anti-Union Strikes In Mines
A conference of lodge delegates has made a timely appeal to miners on the northern coalfield to obey majority decisions of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mine 'Not Meant For Sunken Liner'
HONGKONG, March 27. A.A.P.— Reuter.—The mine which sank the luxury liner Miss Orient on Thursday night was meant for British…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →No Work For Three Northern Mines
At least three mines in the North are expected to be idle to-day. Stockrington No. 1 colliery, idle last week over a dispute on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A.W.U. Move Against Miners' Federation
SYDNEY, Sunday.—The A.W.U. has applied to the Industrial Registrar for an order restraining the Miners' Federation from enrolling…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →High Coal Loss in North
Most mines idle in the North yesterday are expected to resume working this morning. The coat production loss for the day was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Ships May Be Delayed
Some ships arriving in Newcastle to take cargo coal and bunkers for interstate ports this week may be slightly delayed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Board Denies Bunnerong Neglect
SYDNEY: A spokesman for the Joint Coal Board today denied that negligence by the board had helped to put out of commission one of the four main boilers at Bunnerong…
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MELBOURNE.—Ernest William Fraser, 39. was buried alive last night by a fall of coal in the bunker at the Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Miners Back At Work In United States
PITTSBURGH. Mon. (A.A.P.)—ners returned to work to-day after a 14-day memorial strike, which was also partly in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tie-up Threatened In Coal Shipments
Threats of a stoppage by four members of the Australian Railways Union at Carrington may lead to a tie-up in coal shipments from Newcastle. The men, who are employed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fatalities Reduced 60 Per Cent In American Mines
NEW YORK, Tues.—Fatal mine accidents in the United States have decreased by about 60 per cent. in the 29 years that the Federal Bureau of Mines has been in existence…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gold Earth Case Sent to A.J.C.
Having completed their investigation into the eligibility of Gold Earth, Newcastle stewards will submit a report to the A.J.C…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Gallager Says He Will Not Be "Stampeded" on Miners' Claims
SIDNEY: The chairman of the Coal Reference Board (Mr. F. H. Gallagher) said today that he would not be "stampeded" by miners into giving a decision on a wage increase claim…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →State Coal Loss 7276 Tons
The coal production loss in New South Wales yesterday was 7276 tons. The loss in the North was 5400…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →U.S. Miners Back At Work
NEW YORK, March 29. A.A.P. —Work was resumed yesterday in coalmines cast of the Mississippi River which had been Idle for a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Higher Coal Output Than Last Year
N.S.W. coal production to the end of February was higher than in the corresponding period of last year. This is indicated by figures…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Maitland Coal Losses 'Hit Housing Plans'
LITHGOW Tuesday.—Hundreds of trivial and petty stoppages on Maitland coalfields were reducing steel production and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Experts Here For Open Cut Mine At Minmi
SYDNEY: Two British engineering construction experts, with equipment and a five-year contract for a million tons of coal from an open-cut mine near Newcastle, reached Sydney on the freighter Coptic from London today…
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