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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
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LONDON: With 16,000 fewer workers in the industry, Britain's coal miners in 1949 beat the targets set them by producing no less than 215,113,800 tons of coal—6,000,000 more tons than in 1948…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Delegates to the International Labour Office pneumoconiosis conference in Sydney to-day will inspect South Coast coalmines and the Joint Coal Board's new medical bureau at Corrimal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON. — Two coal delivery men who delivered short weight to a constable's home in High Wycombe, Bucks.,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY::— Coal rationing appeared to be inevitable this winter, Mr. W. S. Winning told the Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. F. H. Gallagher) today. Mr. Winning (for the Joint Coal Board) added that this…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It is doubtful whether Australia will have sufficient coal stocks to tide the country, without restrictions, over the Easter holidays. The northern coalfields have…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WASHINGTON, Thurs. (A.A.P.) : President Truman announced today that plans had been drafted to seize the nation's coal mines. He described the Coal situation, produced by a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →WELLINGTON, March 2. A.A.P.-Reuter.—An attempt is likely to be made this year to salvage the remaining £200,000 worth…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CANBERRA, Thursday.—The Minister for Development (Mr. Casey) said in the House of Representatives to-day that the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The coal production loss in the north yesterday was about 10,000 tons. On the South Coast, five mines were on strike for a coal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—The gap between Australia's coal requirements and New South Wales coal production was widening. Research Service in its fourth…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cleve Hines, 37, of Watkins-road, Wangi Wangi, wheeler at Awaba State Mine, suffered internal injuries when thrown by a horse…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Friday.—The best way to end coalminie stoppages would be a move from within the Miners' Federation to outlaw stoppages…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Steel production at Newcastle Steel Works has dropped to almost two-thirds of the plant's normal production because of coal shortages. The plant is working with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WASHINGTON, Fri. (A.A.P.): Asking Congress today for power to seize strike-bound coalmines, President Truman declared: "There will be human suffering and disastrous economic dislocation if coal production is not resumed at once…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The coal production loss in the North yesterday exceeded 9000 tons. The position was—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Friday.—Several miners' lodge secretaries to-day sent telegrams to the Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. Gallagher). The telegrams protested against the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MELBOURNE, Friday.—By 1953, the Commonwealth's coal production should be 18.8 million tons a year, which would provide a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MELBOURNE: A Federal Government proposal to import one million tons of coal in the next three years has been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY: The Minister for Fuel and Shipping (Senator McLeay) will meet N.S.W. coal-owners for the first time in Sydney today. While no definite agenda…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Loss of 5000 tons of coal output by the idleness today of the B.H.P. Company's two biggest collieries on the northern field will jeopardise still further Australia's steel…
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