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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
1,307 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 18 of 66
The strike wave on the northern N.S.W. coalfields reached a crisis today and the fields had their worst production day of the year. Principal factor was the strike at Hebbum No. 1…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Monday.—State Cabinet to-day approved a draft bill to increase mineworkers' superannuation…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A fall of top coal, estimated to contain about 2000 tons, has heated up in No. 5 bord section of Abermain No. 3…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY: The Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. F. H. Gallagher) will resume the 13 months' old hearing of the miners' claim for a new award on Thursday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Public Works Department has rejected a suggestion by Newcastle Council that the boilers of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Northern Coalfield had its worst daily production loss this year when 24 mines were idle yesterday. The total loss of 16,000…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Continuance of the wave of strikes over the Hebburn No. 1 Colliery dispute, in conjunction with a crop of stoppages on other issues, established a new record daily coal production loss for 1954 for the northern field today of nearly 17,500 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Mr. Booth (Lab., Kurri Kurri) today asked the Premier (Mr. Cahill) in the Legislative…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A broken leg has featured in the dispute at the three Muswellbrook collieries—a stoppage which for more than a week has meant a daily coal loss of 3300 tons of gas…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Emergency stockpiles of coal were now 1,250,000 tons but there was little chance of miners working themselves out of jobs,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →SYDNEY: Increased coal production was a major factor contributing to the prosperity in Australian secondary industry, the Minister for Development (Sen. Spooner) said in a broadcast last night…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At best the New South Wales coal industry is faced for several years with a static market and, in fact, it will probably be a shrinking one. The extent to which the industry can hold its markets…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Serious interruptions of work occurred again today on the northern N.S.W. Coalfields, with 10 mines idle for the full shift and one for part of the shift for a total loss…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Twenty-five mines on the Northern Coalfields were idle yesterday for a loss of about 17,500 tons of coal. It was the worst loss this…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CANBERRA, Wednesday.—Continuance of the Joint Coal Board, exercising control "lightly," was advised in the board's annual report, tabled in the House of Representatives to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Striking mining mechanics at Pelaw Main Colliery are expected to resume work tomorrow following a compulsory conference before the Acting Local Coal Authority (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →CANBERRA, Wednesday.—The Commonwealth Public Accounts Committee believes the Joint Coal Board will find…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CANBERRA, Wednesday.—In its annual report, tabled in the House of Representatives to-day, the Joint Coal Board warned that there was no certainty that if the coal industry reverted to free competition, without supervision in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fears that processes to cripple the Miners' Federation were being brought into action were expressed last night. These fears were referred…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →James Leslie, 52, of Congewai-street, Aberdare, miner at Aberdare colliery, was struck by a fall of coal yesterday,…
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