60,400 Tons Of Coal Shipped
A total of 60,400 tons of coal was shipped from Newcastle to Sydney, interstate ports and Noumea this week…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1953
1,237 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 17 of 62
Miners' Board Backs Lodge
The Northern Miners Board of Management to-day supported the John Darling Lodge, which has…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Higher Holiday Pay For Miners Urged
The vice president of the Northern Miners' Federation (F. H. Cockerill) today advocated higher pay rates for miners on holidays and long service leave. Cockerill was giving…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →6000-Ton Coal Loss
Strikes at three Northern mines yesterday caused a loss of nearly 6000 tons of coal. Hebburn No. 2 was idle…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Spread Of BHP Mine Dispute
Burwood miners left the pit property and held a meeting on the road outside this morning when the management objected to representatives of John Darling Colliery strikers…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Atom V. Coal Tests Soon
OTTAWA, April 13. A.A.P.—Science still does not know whether the atom will be able to compete commercially with coal for power production…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners' Stockpiling Fears "Very Real," Tribunal Told
Mineworkers' fear of stockpiling was based upon the realisation that there were now more men in the industry producing a greater amount of coal than could be used…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Conditions On Mining Of Uranium
SYDNEY, Monday.—Conditions covering uranium mining would be similar to those for other metallic mineral…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mine Dispute Continues
A conference before the Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. Gallagher) in Newcastle today failed to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →'Savage' Horses In Mine
Wheelers at Burwood Colliery have to cope with "man-eating" horses in addition to the normal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Quit" Order to Miners
Burwood colliery, idle yesterday after the management had ordered officials from another miners' lodge off the property, is expected to resume to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LETTERS To The Editor Mine Subsidence Act
I REFER to the editorial, "The Pelaw Main Subsidence" (N.M.H.," April 8). You convey the impression…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Questions on Owners' Log Opposed in Miners' Case
The General Secretary of the Miners' Federation (Mr. G. Grant) today questioned the Coal Industry Tribunal's right to allow questions on the colliery proprietors' log of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →U.K. Wants A-Power To Replace Coal
MONTREAL, April 14. AAP.—Britain had decided to give priority to the development of nuclear energy for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners' Chiefs Differ
Miners' leaders differed yesterday on argument over the jurisdiction of the Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Salvage Ship After Gold
WELLINGTON, April 15. A.A.P.-Reuter.—The salvage ship Foremost 17, which will attempt to recover the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miner Struck By Coal Fall
Henry Hooker, 42, of Colliery-street, Neath, miner at Aberdare colliery, was struck by falling coal and lacerated…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Letters To the Editor. Mine Dispute
IN THE serious dispute at the John Darling mine the time has arrived when consideration must be given to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Poor Air, Dust "Cut Gas Coal"
Deteriorating ventilation, dusty roads and bad lighting were factors causing a drop in gas coal production on the South Maitland field, the Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. Gallagher) was told in Newcastle yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Full Mechanisation Given Support by Miners' Man
A Miners' Federation official fold the Coal Industry Tribunal today that he believed in full mechanisation of the coal industry and would advise the federation to accept it subject to…
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