Smoke Panel Plan to Gasify Coal
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 April 1950 · page 2
The Newcastle Smoke Abatement Advisory Panel was preparing data on a scheme to gasify coal at the coalfields and pipe it to Newcastle for use by major industries in preference to raw coal, the Chairman…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Chinese Amateur Rider On Gold Valley
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 April 1950 · page 14
Thoe Soon Leong, who rode Peter Ruler at Randwick and Double Gift at Moorefield in the last two Corinthian races held in…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →No Result From Talks On Pillar Coal
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 April 1950 · page 4
SYDNEY, Friday. — State Parliamentarians of Coalfield electorates to-day conferred with leaders of the Miners' Federation on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gold Valley Pleased In Corinthian Cup Trial
The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 29 April 1950 · page 4
Gold Valley, a candidate for Monday's Newcastle Corinthian Cup at Broadmeadow revelled in the heavy going at Broadmeadow this morning and beat Fast Jim over half a mile in 5¼ sec. Gold Valley, galloping on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →£7020 Grant By Coal Board For Shire Library
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 April 1950 · page 2
The Joint Coal Board has made a grant of £7020 to the Lake Macquarie Shire Council to help in the establishment of a free library…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Board's Ruling On Amenities
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 1 May 1950 · page 2
SINGLETON, Sunday.—The Joint Coal Board advised Patrick Plains Shire Council that expenditure of grant-in-aid must be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Fall Injures Miner
The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 2 May 1950 · page 9
Jack Googe, 23, of Jamieson-st., Gateshead, a miner at Burwood Colliery, received severe bruises to his back and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Miners "Will Not Stand Interference"
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 2 May 1950 · page 2
The Miners' Federation would not countenance interference with elections of officers, the General Secretary (Mr. Grant) said…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cessnock Mining Accidents
The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 2 May 1950 · page 3
Evan Phillips (32) of Government Rd., Kearsley, a miner at Abordare Colliery, fractured his right foot when a lump of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Resist Mechanised Pillar Coal Working
The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 2 May 1950 · page 2
SYDNEY: Though the Miners' Central Council has yet to make a decision on the use of machines to extract pillar coal, the Miners' General President (Mr. I. Williams) gave a strong hint today that the miners would resist mechanised pillar working with all means…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →What Extraction Of Pillar Coal Means
The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 2 May 1950 · page 6
To thousands of people for whom coal troubles mean gas and electricity rationing and transport cuts the controversy about mechanical extraction of pillar coal is just another irritating threat to winter comfort…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Advise on Pillar Coal Work Owners To Set Up Committee
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 2 May 1950 · page 1
SYDNEY, Monday.—The Combined Colliery Proprietors Association decided to-day to set up a committee to advise on the mechanical extraction of pillar coal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mine Area Sewerage Committee
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 3 May 1950 · page 6
The Hunter District Water Board yesterday approved the setting up of a committee to consider the provision of sewerage…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Coal Production Near Peak
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 3 May 1950 · page 3
Coal production throughout the State yesterday was almost at a peak. In the North one small mine was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Pillar Coal Not Strike Issue
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 3 May 1950 · page 2
The decision of the colliery proprietors to set up a committee to examine proposals submitted by mine managers for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miner Caught By Coal Fall
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 3 May 1950 · page 3
Caught by a fall of coal in Bur-wood colliery yesterday, Jack Googe, 23, of Jamieson-street, Gateshead, received abrasions to the back and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Board Projects "Delay Shire Work"
The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 3 May 1950 · page 7
The Lake Shire Council's policy of giving priority to Coal Board amenity projects had slowed up local shire…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Three-year Order On Pillar Coal
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 3 May 1950 · page 3
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. Gallagher) issued a formal order to-day making his pillar coal judgment operative for three years…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Forged Cheques, "Gold Brick" Swindle Alleged
The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 3 May 1950 · page 2
SYDNEY: Allegations that a part-proprietor of "The Tulips" restaurant had planned to "get a fortune" from forged cheques and that he had engaged in a gold-brick swindle through Singapore, were made…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners' Pit-Top Meetings On Anti-Red Bill
The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 3 May 1950 · page 1
SYDNEY: The Central Council of the Miners' Federation today directed miners throughout Australia to hold pittop meetings tomorrow morning on the anti-Red bill and authorised them to take any action they deemed necessary…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →