Week-end Coal Talks: Ministers Told To Stand By
SYDNEY, Friday.—State Ministers have been asked to stand by during the week-end for an emergency conference on the coal crisis. There will be a Cabinet…
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Mining & the mines, 1949
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Mine Production Badly Hit
Flood damage will throw idle or affect the operation of many mines in the North to-day. It was broadcast from Cessnock last night that the following mines…
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Telegrams urging that the threatened miners' stoppage on June 27 should be prevented are to be sent to Mr. Chifley and the General…
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FORTY of the 62 horses trapped when Aberdare Extended mine was flooded on Friday are alive…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—The Miners' General President (Mr. Williams) said to-night that unions in the heavy industries, especially in South…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Northern Coal Output Crippled By Floods
Northern N.S.W. coal production has been crippled by the floods. Known loss of output on the field today was 11,000 tons, though the actual loss may be higher as interrupted communications have left the overall position indefinite…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Core Brought Up in New Gold Strike
JOHANNESBURG, June 19. A.A.P.—Another core has been bought up from the borehole of Erfdeel Farm in Orange Free State…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Queensland Coal Report Open-Cu[?] Seams Hold 150M. Tons "Herald" Service
LONDON, June 19.—It is estimated that at least 150 million tons of coal can be mined in Queensland by open-cut methods. This volume of coal is…
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The open cut over No. 2 west section of Aberdare Extended colliery, where flood water from Lavender Creek rushed into the…
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SYDNEY: A spokesman for the Miners' Federation said today that the warning by the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal For Ships Cut Heavily
By order of the Joint Coal Board, no bunker coal, except for 60-milers and some other vessels…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gold Chalice For Mons. Peters
At a luncheon in his honour in the Redemptorist Monastery, Waratah, yesterday, Monsignor Peters was presented with a gold chalice…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Bunkering Suspended; Shipping Tie-up
Coal bunkering for all ships except "60-milers" was suspended in Newcastle yesterday afternoon. Most coal burning ships will be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →North Coal Intake Down to 9000 Tons
Flooding has reduced the intake into Newcastle of coal from the Northern field to between 7500 and 9000 tons daily. All this is from the Newcastle field…
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PITTSBURGH, Monday (A.A.P.). — The national coal strike which ended today lopped 11,500.000 tons off the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Diversion Gives Newcastle Extra Day's Gas
Diversion of 200 tons of Stockrington coal from a ship which was loading will give Newcastle gasworks sufficient coal for a rationed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →ACTU Calls Conference On Coal Unions' Strike Threat
MELBOURNE: The Emergency Committee of the Australian Council of Trade Unions decided today to call a conference on the coal position. The conference will be held in Sydney on Thursday at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →In Brief Probe Of "Richest Ever" Gold Report
The South African Government has appointed a special commission to investigate a report circulated two weeks ago of an alleged "richest ever" gold strike on a farm at Dankhaarheid (Orange Free State), which was later denied. The…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Value of State Coal Output Higher by £2½m
SYDNEY, Monday.—Coal output in New South Wales in 1948 was 11,643,570 tons—64,844 tons less than 1947—but its value was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Floods, Strikes and Other Causes Meant Coal Loss of 12,000 Tons
Coal loss was again heavy throughout the State with 27 mines idle for a loss of 12,000 tons because of floods, lack of empty coal waggons, absenteeism and strikes. In the north the known loss was approximately…
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