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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
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SYDNEY: Sir Colin Davidson, knighted in today's New Year honors list and former Commonwealth Coal Board president, said today that the coal-mining industry should work two shifts instead of one to provide Australian industry immediately with the coal it…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A large grass fire which broke out near Neath School yesterday ignited a dump of waste coal at Neath colliery…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DARWIN, Tuesday.—Thefts of wolfram, known as "black gold," are increasing in the Tennant Creek area…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A general profit-sharing scheme for the coal industry and the working of two shifts were advocated to-day by Sir Colin Davidson…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Second-grade coal was blamed for Newcastle's severe blackouts yesterday. Sections of the city were without…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Zara-street Power station has the biggest stock of coal for years, but electricity production has been down almost 20 per cent because none of the coal is…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →More power could be expected in Newcastle to-day as the result of New haven coal being mixed with Newcastle coal at Zara-street, Power Station, Mr. J. G. Arthur said…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MELBOURNE, Friday. —No restriction on the use of coal by industry was likely before the New Year's…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →WHEN the Newcastle Collector of Customs in 1874 compiled a return of business for the year, he…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Although New Raven coal was not as good as Maitland, its mixture with Newcastle coal had resulted in a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A total of 13,900 tons of coal was shipped from New-castle to Sydney and Victoria this week…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →About 2000 tons of coal at grass is being moved daily from Branxton. It is being movel from a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fifteen thousand Newcastle and northern coalfields workers today began the last week of their annual holidays. They include about 12,000…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NEW YORK, Jan. 6. A.A.P.—Despite sharp cuts in imports, Britain's gold and dollar reserve continues to fall and her trade gap with the rest of the world to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →When the miners' holidays started more than 20,000 tons of coal lay at grass on the New South…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →DARWIN.—Northern Territory wolfram miners believe that the stage is now set for organised and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A start is expected in a few weeks with coal stowage at some mines in the north…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →It used to be a standing New Guinea joke—and may be it is still—that visitors to the territory could meet anything up to twenty or thirty "original" discoverers of the fabulous…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Coal exports from Newcastle during the past three weeks have been unprecedently…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →WASHINGTON, January 9. A.A.P.—An electric are or spark "from non-permissible electrical equipment" caused…
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