N.Z. Miners To Resume
WELLINGTON, July 4. A.A.P.- Reuter.—The striking New Zealand miners will return to work from midnight to-day, 127 days after the…
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Mining & the mines, 1951
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Mine Unions To Meet Monthly
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Executive members of three major mining unions to-day decided to hold monthly meetings to discuss…
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CANBERRA, Tuesday.—The means by which coal is trimmed in Newcastle is one of the prime examples of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Losses Rise With Strikes
Coal production losses yesterday as a result of strikes were the highest for more than three weeks. Disputes caused six mines in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →No Decision At Mine Stop Talks
LITHGOW, Tuesday.—A compulsory conference called in Lithgow to-day in an attempt to prevent stoppages by western miners…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →No Council Action On Kotara Mine
Newcastle City Council will take no action on the proposed mine at Kotara, pending negotiations between the owner of the mine and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →No Early End To Coal Gap
CANBERRA, Tuesday.—The gap between demand and production of coal will not be closed before 1954. The Joint Coal Board, in its…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Loss Mounts
Five Northern mines were idle yesterday and two partly so for a coal production loss of about 7000 tons—the biggest daily loss for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners' Claim On Tonnage Rate
The application by the Miners' Federation for an increase in the tonnage rate for machine-cut coal will come…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Greta Asks State To Open Mine
Greta residents have asked the Minister for Mines (Mr. Arthur) to develop a mine there. Mr. Barrett, Northern Miners'…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Western Mines Idle on Glen Davis
Western miners yesterday reaffirmed their decision to hold mass stopwork meetings to-day in protest against the closing of Glen Davis shale oil plant…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Train Crashes Into Another Near Maitland
The driver and fireman of a coal train travelling from East Greta Junction to Port Waratah had an amazing escape from injury when their engine crashed into the rear of a stationary brake van and 17 hoppers loaded with coal near East Maitland about 1.30 a.m. today…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Arm Hurt in Mine
Jack Foster, of Albert-street, Speers Point, machineman at Killingworth colliery, had his left arm lacerated yesterday when jammed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Good Output Of Coal Today
N.S.W. coal mines had their best working day of the week today. Production loss due to stoppages throughout the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Disputes At Five Mines In North
Disputes were continued at four Northern mines yesterday for a coal production loss of about 4400 tons. A new dispute caused another…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Watersiders And Miners To Hear Dairymen's View
SYDNEY Thursday.—Officials of the Miners' Federation and the Waterside Workers' Federation will confer to-morrow with…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Improved Coal Production
With improved working at N.S.W. mines in recent weeks, coal production is beginning to overhaul last year's figures…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →One Mine Idle In North
Only one mine was idle in the North yesterday, the coal production loss being 700 tons. The mine was Maitland Main,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Shipments 81,000 Tons
Coal shipments from Newcastle to Sydney and interstate ports totalled 81,000 tons this week. Victoria received 31,600 tons in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Paris Pavements Bring In Gold
When Louis XIV and Napoleon laid out the wide and treelined boulevards of Paris they "builded them better than they knew." Those…
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