Evatt To Raise Coal Crisis
The Leader of the Federal Opposition (Dr Evatt) will raise the coal crisis issue in the present sitting of Federal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1954
1,307 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 40 of 66
Six Mines Idle In The North
Coal loss on the northern field today was 4790 tons, Six mines were idle, two of them—Neath and Greta…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—The Victorian State Electricity Commissions decision to use 4000 tons more of N.S.W…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Five Mines Idle in North
Coal production loss in the North yesterday was about 4200 tons as a result of the idleness of Aberdare…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Buried Under Fall Of Coal
LITHGOW. — A man was buried alive when a blasting operation split a coal face at the State Mine…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gosper's Gold Medal Is His Present For Mother
Newcastle's champion runner, Kevan Gosper, told his father In a radio-telephone talk from Vancouver…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Future Assured For State Coal Mines
The Minister for Mines (Mr. Gollan) said in Sydney today that no question would arise of the closing of State coal mines owing to the reduced demand for coal. Last week Mr. Gollan…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Collie Miners
PERTH — Collie Miners' Union representatives will attend the Australian and New Zealand mineworkers'…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fall Of Coal
LITHGOW. — Norman Fisher, married, was buried by a fall of coal during blasting at the State mine…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →30 Mines Full Time
Thirty pits on the Northern field worked full time of 10 days for the fortnight ended last Friday. Nineteen pits on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pumpman Buried In Mine Fall
LITHGOW, Tuesday.—Norman Fisher, a pumpman at the State Mine, was seriously injured to-day when a coal…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mine Detectors In Murder Hunt
LONDON. — Mine detectors were used by police at Bournemouth in a search for the knife with…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →EDITORIAL Call The Doctor For Coal Industry
THOROUGHLY RUN down, the N.S.W. coal industry needs a physician. Its malady may be acute or it may be mild, and corrective measures may be complicated or relatively…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Coal Stockpile Funds "At End" "Jobs Elsewhere"
The Commonwealth was not prepared to continue to provide funds for stockpiling coal, Senator Spooner said in Canberra last night. There were ample opportunities for miners…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Reprieve for Small Mines
Small mines in the Kotara and Cardiff area, faced with closure within a month, were given an extra month's reprieve yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Witnesses Called For Mine Case
Witnesses have been subpoenaed for a sitting of the Local Coal Authority (Mr. M Lydon) at the colliery office…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Burning Wood For Gold
WELLINGTON (N.Z.) (Reuter). — A great era of goldmining is ending at Waihi…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Renewed Bidding For Gas Coal
With facts and figures, the Chairman of the Combines Colliery Proprietors' Association (Mr. Warren)…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Letters To the Editor. Coal Industry
THE mineworkers and citizens of the Newcastle-Maitland Coalfields districts must be concerned by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Homes Plan For Miners Going To New Areas
SYDNEY: The Minister for Housing (Mr. Kelly) is considering a plan put forward by Mr. G. Booth, M.L.A., to provide additional housing for displaced miners who fill vacancies on the Cessnock-Kurri field…
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