Progress View On Coal Point Roadwork
The annual meeting of Coal Point Progress Association decided yesterday to ask Lake Macquarie Shire Council to use the general…
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Mining & the mines, 1950
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Minister To Confer To-day On Coal Output
SYDNEY, Sunday.—The Minister for Fuel and Shipping (Senator McLeay) will attend conferences in Sydney to-morrow on plans for…
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WASHINGTON, March 5. A.A.P.—The worst coal strike in the history of the United States is likely to end to-morrow. A few hours after President…
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The Steel Works, where coal stocks are meagre, received another setback yesterday when its two biggest producers were idle…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—The Minster for Shipping and Fuel (Senator McLeay) said that his talks in Sydney to-day with the…
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WASHINGTON, March 6. A.A.P.—A contract ending America's worst coal strike has been signed by representatives of the…
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The Commissioner for Railways said in Newcastle last week that his department was importing thousands of tons of steel…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Continued Mine Disputes Cut Deeply Into Industry Stocks
Disputes at three B.H.P. mines today again cut deeply into the flow of coal to Newcastle Steelworks where stocks are approaching a low ebb. Two of the three mines idle today-Burwood and John Dar-…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Refusal To Appear At Coal Hearing Alleged
SYDNEY: A Queensland coal owners' representative, who did not attend a hearing before the Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. F. H. Gallagher) today, was alleged to have refused to come…
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LITHGOW, Tuesday.—C. Davies, colliery driver, was admitted to hospital to-day with a probable fracture of the spine…
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SYDNEY.—The Chairman of the Joint Coal Board (Mr. K. A. Cameron) today confirmed that he would resign to take up an…
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George Minter, 16, of New Tunnel-road, Wallsend, suffered an injury to his back and lacerations to his face when he was struck by the…
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CANBERRA, Tuesday.—The Federal Government is considering a long-range progranmmne for the purchase of oversea coal and steel. Commonwealth authorities…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Missionaries in Mine, Says Vatican Radio
VATICAN CITY, March 7. A.A.P.—Vatican Radio, quoting reports from Seoul, said to-day that at least 123 Catholic missionaries…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Western Mine Flooded From Open Cut
LITHGOW, Tuesday.—Floodwaters are pouring into the Huon underground mine on the Western field from floods in Huon…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Most Miners" Want Secret Union Ballots
CANBERRA, Tuesday.—An over whelming number of coalminers desired the introduction of secret ballots in union elections, Mr. Dean…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Teralba Boy Wins Coal Board Award
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Richard William Gray, 17, of Awaba-street, Teralba, has been awarded a Joint Coal Board scholarship at the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ration Threat Increased By Loss Of Coal
Another disastrous coal output loss on the northern coalfields today has increased the probability of winter rationing and of widespread dislocation in the steel and allied metal industries…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Board Offers £1095 Grant For Kahibah Works
The Joint Coal Board will make a grant of £1095 to Lake Macquarie Shire Council for the purchase of land and construction of a bowling green, rest park and children's playground at Kahibah…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Work Likely To-day at 2 Idle B.h.p. Mines
Two of the B.H.P. pits whose idleness threatens to affect employment at Newcastle Steel Works are expected to resume work this morning…
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