Miners' General Pres. Ballot
A nation-wide ballot on Wednesday will elect a new general president of the Miners' Federation, to hold office for two years In recent years the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1954
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Man Injured In State Mine
Hugh Goodsir, 56, of Awaba, loader at Awaba State mine, had his bend lacerated and suffered from concussion…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners To Vote To-morrow
SYDNEY, Monday.—Miners in four States will hold secret ballots at pit tops on Wednesday to elect a General…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners Idle Again On Pillars Issue
Miners at Burwood Colliery were idle again today after a pit-top meeting on a dispute over the method…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Counter To Falling Coal Export Sought
The need to export more wool, wheat and other primary products from Newcastle to counter a declining coal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Threat to Cardiff Mines Employment Body To Meet
The Coal Industry Re-employment Committee will meet on Monday to discuss a threat to the jobs of 150 Cardiff mine-workers. A meeting of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mine Accident
Henry Townsend (32), of Millfield, a loader hand at Stanford Main No. 2 mine suffered extensive…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mines Director Appointed
HOBART, Tuesday. — A Broken Hill mining engineer has been appointed Tasmanian Director of Mines to succeed…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Owners' Bid in Mine Threat
Cardiff mineowners decided yesterday to ask the Joint Coal Board to meet them to discuss keeping the pits open. The Minister for Mines (Mr. Gollan) said he would discuss the issue with the Coal Board…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Talks On Mine Work At Cardiff
Efforts to secure the employment of miners at the Cardiff collieries will be made at a conference between the N.S.W. Mines Minister (Mr. Gollan) and representatives of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mines Affected By Strike On Wharves
Effects of today's waterfront stoppage in Newcastle spread to the northern coalfields, where supplies of empty waggons to the pits have been seriously cut by the tie-up of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →U.S. Answer To Pressure Mine "Herald" Service
NEW YORK, Nov. 2. — The U.S. Navy has begun work on an electronic age minesweeper which can track down every mine an enemy ship might lay on the scabed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Creation Of Coal Seams Was A Big Earth-Moving Job
This district provides many examples of what happened to create coal and also there is along the Myall River a striking example of a coal bed in the making This is one of the illuminating facts in the latest These pictures of palaeozic plant fossils were taken in the Newcastle district by Mr. Laseron. The one on the left is a leaf of Noeggerathiopsis and the one on the right of the Permian fern Glossopteris…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Wharf Strike Soon To Affect Miners
While the waterfront strike continued to tie-up the port of Newcastle today, northern miners were brought closer to large scale unemployment as collieries struggled to keep working with dwindling numbers of empty waggons…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Shortage Of Waggons Hits Mines In North
The idleness of coaltrimmers to-day will mean an almost complete shutdown of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →U.K. Gold, Dollar Reserves Up
LONDON, Nov. 3 Reuter.— Britain's gold and dollar reserves rose by 35 million dollars (£stg. 15,625,000) in…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Miners Injured At Work
John Harrison, 40, of Vincent-street, Cessnock, miner at Aberdare Extended colliery. suffered injuries to his ribs and…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Dog Awarded Gold Medal
The National Portuguese Society for the Protection of Animals awarded a gold medal to a dog which saved 31…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Waggon Hold-Up Puts Mines Out
Nearly 1000 miners were thrown idle today at northern collieries which were cut off from waggon supplies by the waterfront tie-up in Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Subsidy For Gold Provided In Bill
CANBERRA. The Commonwealth will pay up to £2 an ounce subsidy 'for gold produced in Australia…
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