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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
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JOHANNESBURG, June 6. A.A.P.—Shares in Free State Gold Areas, on whose property, Erfdeel Farms, is situated, opened at 47/6 this morning and rose quickly to 56/, with the public buying [?]ndis…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A deputation of representatives of Newcastle business interests will ask the Acting Minister for Transport (Mr. Sheahan) in Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Newcastle Central Junior Technical School Parents and Citizens' Association decided last night to ask the Joint Coal Board to grant…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Laurie Craft, 48, of Millfield, a fitter at Millfield Colliery, injured his back and right leg when he fell over a rail…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The State's coal production loss yesterday was about 7000 tons. Seven mines were idle in the North and three in the South. One mine…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Six mines on the northern coalfields were idle today and another was only partly manned. Resultant loss of coal was 5300 tons. There were continued…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →SYDNEY: A conference on mine workers' claims for a 35-hour week and 30/- week pay increase broke down today. The Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. F. Gallagher), who…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Joint Coal Board will make temporary repairs to the access road to No. 2 tunnel of Buchanan Borehole Colliery…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Perce Grainger (37), a miner, of Maitland St., Stanford Merthyr, received an incised wound to the right shin while at work…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →A special meeting of .the Retired Mine Pensioners' Association, held at Federation House, agreed to send a letter of protest to Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal production throughout the State was down 5500 tons yesterday. Seven mines were idle, and one…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →IT was reported ("N.M.H." 3/6/49) that a report was made to the miners' Central Council by Mr. J. B. Simpson, Secretary, Northern…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Aberdare Miners' Lodge proposal for a one-day stoppage of mines in the Cessnock area was rejected last night by the Miners' Area…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rail transport restrictions, including double demurrage rates at week-ends, were owing to poor coal and a shortage of locomotives, the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SYDNEY: The Commonwealth Government is prepared to consider placing an excise tax on coal to establish a fund to pay for long service leave for miners, the secretary of the Joint Coal…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A recent statement by the president of the Miners' Federation (Mr. I. Williams) that men who retired from the mining industry at 60 were no longer fit for work in the collieries has aroused…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WASHINGTON, Wednesday (A.A.P.): John L. Lewis has ordered his 450,000 coalminers to start a week's walkout next…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →SYDNEY: Coal mine owners today asked the Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. F. Gallagher) to order miners not to carry out their strike threat…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—At a sitting next Tuesday the Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. Gallagher) will read a draft award on the mining unions' claim for long service leave…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A meeting of mineworkers in Kurri Kurri School of Arts formed an Area Committee. Officers elected were: President,…
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