Fete for Coal Point Community Hall
To raise funds for a community hall to be built at Skye Point-road, Coal Point Progress Association on Saturday conducted a fete on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1949
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12 Interstate Coal Cargoes
Twelve interstate ships are due in Newcastle this week to load coal. The Echunga, which began to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →U.S. Miners Start Strike
PITTSBURGH, September 19. A.A.P.—A strike which threatens to paralyse the United States coal industry began early to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →State Coal Loss 2400 Tons
With three mines in the North and one in the South idle yesterday, the coal loss was 2420. tons. The position in the North was—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mine Detectors Aid Search For Weapon
AUCKLAND, Monday.—A.A.P.-Reuter.—An Army detachment swept the north beach of Piha this afternoon with mine detectors for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fortunes Ma[?] On Gold Deals
Some people in Australia and abroad have made fortunes in gold shares as a result of the devaluation of the pound. In London yesterday a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Absorb 5000 British Miners In New Pits"
SYDNEY, Monday.—Mr. J. Johnson, an Australian coalmining expert, said to-day that if new coalmines were opened up in New…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners' Delegates at A.c.t.u
Among the delegates of the Miners' Federation at the opening of the A.C.T.U. Congress in Sydney yesterday were Mr. J. Comerford (Northern District) and W. Parkinson (Western)…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Letters To The Editor Director of State Mines
WHAT are Mr. Baddeley's qualification for the position of The job demands high technical qualifications. The weekly w[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sudden Strike By 480,000 U.S.A. Miners
PITTSBURGH, Mon. (A.A.P.): All 480,000 members of the United Mineworkers' Union staged a lightning strike today. Although there was no strike…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Rise In Miners' Pensions
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Increased pensions and allowances for miners and their dependants are provided for in the bill amending the Mineworkers' Pensions Act…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners' Lamps on Chancel Screen
LONDON.—On the chancel screen in the parish church at Emley (Yorks.) the other Sunday night there hung a line of…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Coal Output at High Level
The coal production loss throughout the State yesterday was only 1200 tons. There was no work at Hebburn…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Less Coal Won With Machinery
SYDNEY: Production at three B.H.P. collieries had decreased, despite an expenditure of £840,739 on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners' By-Election Won By Moderate
A by-election for the position of treasurer of John Darling Miners' Lodge resulted in a victory for the moderates…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Bumper" Production at Northern Mines Today
Northern district coal mines had a bumper production day today. When the shift began all pits on the field were working. This followed yesterday's good production when the loss…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cessnock Band Seeks Coal Board Grant
Cessnock Council last night decided to support an application by Cessnock Band to the Joint Coal Board for finance…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miner Struck by Fall of Coal
When he was struck by a fall of coal at Elrington Colliery today Ralph Gibson, 42, miner, of Northcote St., Aberdare,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →More Men, But Less Coal, Tribunal Told
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Coal production through the years had decreased considerably, although more men now worked in the industry,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Board's Grant Of £6769 For Ground At Cardiff
The divisional engineer of the Joint Coal Board told Lake Shire Council last night that the board had made a grant of £6769 2s 6d towards the capital cost of developing the sports ground at Cardiff…
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