2 Shifts For Mine Fire
The Northern Miners' Management Board agreed yesterday to double shifts at Cessnock No. 2 to cut a barrier between…
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Mining & the mines, 1951
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Company To Mine At Burragorang
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—State Cabinet to-day approved negotiations to enable a private company to extend coalmining on Crown…
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Retired miners from the Belmont-Swansea dis net held their first picnic at Speers Point yesterday. Snapped arriving at the picnic grounds were Mr. H. England, Mr. G. Gilmore (secretary). Mr. J. Jack (vice-president), a former district president of the Miners' Federation, and Mr. R. Dick. Many had not met for years and a lot of northern mining…
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1. Girls from Home Science High presented a number of plays when they entertained their parents at the school. Shirley Cox in a scene from "Dashing Away With a Smoothing Iron." O 2. At Swansea-Belmont retired miners' picnic at Speers Point—Left to right: Mr. and Mrs. W. Hodge, Mr. and Mrs. S. Coates and Mr. G. McCurry at afternoon tea. O 3. Retired miners' picnic: Messrs. G. Russell and S. Giggins and Mesdames S. Giggins, G. Russell and L. Pybus. O 4. Some of the girls…
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Mine subsidence insurance so far as it relates to the West Ward of Newcastle Municipality has developed into a jumble that…
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BATHURST: Six men were trapped in a shaft of New Deven gold-mine at Hill End today. Early this afternoon four men had been rescued…
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Two cargoes of coal which will leave Newcastle tonight and early tomorrow will remove the threat to Sydney's gas supply…
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A Northern miners' lodge delegate conference decided yesterday to ask the Central Executive for a conference of district executives to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Near Peak Coal Output In North
Coal production on the northern coalfields yesterday was the maximum. Only one mine was idle. The coal production loss was 650…
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SYDNEY: There was no sinister basis in the granting by the State Cabinet of coal rights in the Burragorang Valley to a private company, the Minister for Mines (Mr. J. G. Arthur) said today. "I will stake my political re-…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.— Members of the Miners' Federation were reminded to-day by the Central Executive of the union's "unqualified…
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IN ANSWER to "Aweka" ("N.M.H.," 2/4/'51) and other correspondents who do not sign their names, I say that years ago…
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SYDNEY, Thursday—The Vicepresident president of the Miners' Federation (Mr. W. Parkinson) to-day told the Central Executive of the…
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AUCKLAND, April 5. A.A.P.- Reuter. — Most of New Zealand's 4800 coal miners are on strike, excepting open-cut miners in North…
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The collier Pelton Bank left Newcastle last night with the first cargo of gas coal for Sydney since the settlement of the collier strike in…
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BATHURST, Thursday.— Two miners were rescued by mates today after lying unconscious for nearly two hours 100 feet…
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The 24-hour stoppage by members of the Federated Enginedrivers and Firemen's Association on the northern coalfields today threw nearly all big mines idle and caused a loss of production of nearly 37.000 tons…
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Belmont-Swansea retired mine pensioners held their first picnic at Speers Point. They travelled across the lake by launch, the ferry…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—The Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. Gallagher) to-day adjourned till 2 p.m. on Tuesday in Brisbane the hearing…
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SYDNEY: About 50,000 tons of coal lying at grass at the Fox Colliery, Burragorang Valley, is excellent for power generation. The Director of State Coal…
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