Bottleneck In Coal Transport
The coal transport bottleneck on the northern N.S.W. field is becoming more acute and today three mines were not able to work because they could not get supplies…
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Mining & the mines, 1951
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4 Years Work In Mine
Ald. T. Armstrong, the new Lord Mayor, worked as a miner in the Wallsend C pit for four years in his youth…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New Coal Peak Was On
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—New South Wales miners passed their previous production last Friday, the Joint…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Discovery is Claimed Of King Solomon's Mines
LONDON, Thurs. (O.S.R.) — King Solomon's mines have been discovered in Southern Israel, according to the London "News Chronicle's" correspondent in Beersheba…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mine Meetings
Aggregate meetings of Northern district miners will be held on Sunday to consider decisions of the recent convention. The convention decisions…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fire Squads At Mines
SYDNEY: Caledonian Collieries and Newcastle Fire District officers will cooperate in training fire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hot Coal Threatens Freighter
The coal cargo on the freighter Macedon is being discharged at a rapid…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Board Grant To Ambulance
Cessnock District Ambulance Board has been advised by the Chairman of the Joint Coal Board (Mr. Cochran)…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mine Pensioners To Be Paid Ahead
SYDNEY, Thursday.—Miners' superannuation cheques would be paid in advance for the Christmas period, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →High Court Test On Coal Body
SYDNEY, Thursday.—The authority of the Central Coal Reference Board was challenged by colliery proprietors…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railway Not Able To Take Coal Output
So much coal is being produced on the northern coalfields that the railways cannot handle it…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Haul Lag Due To Ships, Hopper Shortage
The bottleneck in transport of coal from northern N.S.W. mines had been caused by insufficiency of ships to lift coal cargoes from Newcastle and by shortage of privately-owned coal hoppers. The Railway Department was in no way to blame…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Eye Injured by Coal
Sid Bryant, 23, of Elford-street, shiftman, at Elrington colliery, injured his eve when struck by a piece…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Oversea Gold Sale Plan
CANBERRA, Friday.—The Commonwealth Government had arranged for the sale of gold on oversea premium…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Decision Reserved On Coal Case
SYDNEY, Friday.—The Full High Court to-day reserved judgment on a challenge to the authority of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Too Much For Transport
For the first time in 26 years Northern miners have worked a full week without a stoppage over an industrial dispute. In the last 10 working…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Non-Stop Work On Hot Coal
The collier Macedon will work non-stop at the week-end in an attempt to discharge over-heated coal by Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners And The W.F.T.U.
Broken Hill miners, in rejecting that decision of the Miners' Federation Convention which would bind the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners' Record Production
LONDON: Miners in Leicestershire and South Derbyshire have throughout the year maintained…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Coal Output Examined
Research Service expects New South Wales miners to establish this year a new coal output record of about 13½ million tons…
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