Meetings Bring Big Coal Loss
The Miners' Northern Management Board's direction for pit-top meetings today led to the loss of 75 per cent, of the field's potential coal output…
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Mining & the mines, 1951
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A Plan To Save Cessnock Mines
The report of the South Maitland and Coalfield Coal Conservation Committee is not the first, but it is the most important…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Many Mines Likely To Stop To-day
Indications last night were that while some mines would work to-day, most would be idle. Under the direction of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners' Board Nominations
Nominations have closed and are expected to be announced soon for positions on the Miners' Northern Management Board…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners' Board Awaits Results
Neither Canberra nor Washington has been quick to react to the dilemma created for them by the Northern Miners' Board of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mine Pensioners Seek Increase
Belmont-Swansea Retired Mine Pensioners' Association will ask the association's District Council to take steps to secure an immediate…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Price of Filling Coal
In a letter by Mr. J. Comerford, a Vice-president of the Northern Miners' District, in the "Newcastle Morning Herald" yesterday, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stoppages At Five Northern Mines
Stoppages at N.S.W. coal mines today cost about 4800 tons of coal output. On the northern field the loss was 2500 tons. with five…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Big Coal Loss; Board Surprise
The Northern Miners' Board of Management had anticipated that most lodges could and would have worked yesterday, the Northern Miners' President (Mr. Neily) said in Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Only Two Mines Idle Today
Only two mines on the northern coalfields were reported idle when today's shift began. They were Stockrington No…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →2130-Ton Northern Coal' Loss
The coal production loss in the North yesterday was about 2130 tons, as a result of disputes at four mines…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miner Injured by Coal Fall
Raymond Whitehead, 33, of Valentine, a miner at South Waratah colliery, suffered a probable fracture of the right thigh, lacerated…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Naminations Announced for Northern Miners' Boards
Nominations for the Northern Management Board of the Miners' Federation for 1952 and for northern district positions on the union's Central Council were announced today…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Letters To The Editor Pillar Coal
THE Ministre for Mines (Mr. Arthur) should be commended for his attempt to recover and safeguard the future of our coal seams…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Colliery Dividend
Directors of J. and A. Brown and Abermain Seaham Collieries Ltd., are recommending a final dividend of 4 per cent. for the year…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bigger Shipments Of Coal
Coal shipments from Newcastle to interstate ports and Sydney this week were the highest for several weeks…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Production Near Peak
The State's coal production was at near peak yesterday. In the North, only two mines were idle for a loss of about 500 tons. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Disused Mine Search For Missing Man
GOULBURN, Friday.â Police and miners will search a 50ft. disused mine nine miles from Captains Flat in the hope of finding a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two Miners Burnt In Gas Explosion
Two miners suffered facial and other burns when a pocket of gas exploded at Wallarah colliery yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ridiculous, Says Tribunal Miners' Walking Time Claim
It was ridiculous to think that an employee who went down a mine and then decided not to work should be paid for walking time, the Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. Gallagher) said in…
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