Lodge Protest Over Miners' Pensions
A meeting of Hebburn No. 2 Miners' Lodge decided to ask the central executive of the Miners' Federation to protest…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1949
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Lift Firm to Make Mine Machinery
Standard-Waygood Ltd., experts in lift and weighing machinery, have entered a new field of manufacture. The 40th annual report said…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Night Shift Dispute Unlikely At Mine
MELBOURNE, Friday.—A dispute among maintenance workers at Wonthaggi State Coalmine over the introduction of continuous night…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners' Policy Unchanged on Migrant Labour
SYDNEY, Friday.—There had been no change in Miners' Federation policy towards the admission of displaced persons from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →There's Gold In The Beaches
There really is gold in Newcastle's beaches (over which a visiting professor enthused this week): in fact they are a source of the atom, itself. But the gold is only…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gold Ring Found In Crocodile
PERTH, Friday. — A man's gold signet rig was found in the stomach of a 14ft. crocodile caught in a trap in the blood drain at the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Indian Coal Cargo Still Held Up
MELBOURNE, Friday.—Unless the present crew was replaced with members of the Canadian Seamen's Union or Australian Seamen's…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ship Queensland Coal To Victoria Soon
BRISBANE, Friday.—The first shipment of a 30,000-ton order of Callide coal to Victoria might be made in seven or eight weeks, the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Board Officer For Oversea Tour
Mr. Harris, Assistant District Engineer for the Cessnock branch of the Joint Coal Board, has been selected by the board to tour…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gold Bars Found In Yard, Seized
PERTH, Friday. — After a five-hour search to-day, police seized four bars of gold, valued at over £1100, which they dug up in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fabulous Gold Strike In South Africa
JOHANNAESBURG, June 3. A.A.P.—A fabulous rich gold strike—nearly three times larger than the previous record—was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal May Be Source Of Food Supply
NEW YORK, Fri. (O.S.R.): A Harvard chemist has pictured a world in which people would eat food made from coal, while beef cattle would not be worth raising…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal Losses Rose Today; 9 Mines Idle
SYDNEY.—The heaviest coal output loss for several weeks occurred today, when nine mines were idle and one partly…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →More Bar Gold Dug Up
PERTH, Sunday.—Members of the gold stealing detection staff have found six more bars of gold, valued at £1500, in the yard of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →South Africa Moves For Gold Price Rise
CAPE TOWN, June 5. A.A.P.—South Africa has made formal application to the International Monetary Fund for a higher gold…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Colliers Battle Big Seas Race For Gas Coal Supply
The 1375-ton collier Hetton Bank took more than 30 hours to battle through winds up to 70 miles an hour and big seas between Newcastle and Sydney at the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Owners Agreed To Long Service Leave, Says Tribunal
SYDNEY: There were heated exchanges between parties this morning when the Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. F. H. Gallagher) admitted as evidence a pamphlet issued recently by the Joint Coal Board, which…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Seek One-Day Stoppage Of All Coal Mines
Aberdare Miners' Lodge will recommend to the Cessnock District Miners' Area Committee that all mines in the area hold one-day stoppages in protest against the cancellation of aggregate…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Output Down
In the North five mines were idle and one was partially manned for a production loss of 6650 tons. In the South two mines were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Age To Replace Oil
Australia must be prepared to follow the example of Great Britain and the United States in the fuller use of coal and shale resources and their preservation by more efficient mining…
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