Western Mine Posts Filled
LITHGOW, Monday.—Mr. E. Mara has been re-elected President of the Western district of the Miners'…
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Mining & the mines, 1954
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Mining Decision Reserved
In Newcastle yesterday, the Local Coal Authority (Mr. M. Lydon) reserved his decision on two Northern district…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Coal Output May Be Record
New South Wales miners may set a new record for coal production this year. The record is 15,020,200 tons established in 1952. Latest figures issued by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Talks on Mine Strike To-day
A conference on the Burwood mine strike has been called in Newcastle to-day by the Joint Coal Board. Burwood, a B.H.P. pit at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Mission in Burma
SYDNEY, Tuesday—The coal industry's trade delegation is now in Rangoon (Burma) on the last stage of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →All Mines But One At Work Today
With one exception all collieries worked in the northern district today. The only mine idle was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mining Decision Labourers Get Height Money
Bricklayers' labourers employed underground in mince were awarded 1/6 a shift yesterday for work on scaffolding 10 feet high or higher…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Secret Of Gold Goes To Grave "Herald" Service
LONDON, Nov. 30.—Eighty-year-old "Klondike" Armstrong, who has died at Preston (Lancashire) took to his grave the secret to a fortune in gold…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mine Surveyors' Certificates
At the examination for certificates of competency as mine surveyor under the Coalmines Regulation Act, held at…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Burwood Only Idle Mine
Burwood was the only idle mine in the State yesterday. The mine has not worked since November 1 on a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners' Poll Result Soon
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The new general president of the Miners' Federation is expected to be announced before the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gold in the Fleece
Wool from northern N.S.W. has been bringing high prices at sales in Newcastle this week. In the picture at left woolgrowers, buyers, and employees move among the hundreds of bales in a crowded store at…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Grant From Coal Board Sought
Boolaroo Urban Area Committee will ask Lake Macquarie Shire Council why it has not received any grants…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lithgow Miners Fight State Pit Closure
LITHGOW: Miners' leaders said today they would use all influence possible to prevent the State Government abandoning millions of tons of coal in the State Mine. The Minister for Mines…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mining Unions Accept Ban Proposals
Proposals by the Local Coal Authority (Mr. W. Lydon) were accepted by three mining unions at a compulsory…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Warning by M.L.A. Mine Strike May Widen
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Unless there was an early settlement of the Burwood mine dispute, the whole of the Northern coalfields were likely to be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mine to Close
It was reported yesterday that Fern Colliery, a small pit at Dudley, would close to-day because of loss of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Burwood Only Idle Mine
Burwood was the only mine idle in the State yesterday. Pelaw Main, near Kurri Kurri, was only partly manned…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Good Working Week At Mines
With the first week of the miners' Christmas pay period ending today, all except three collieries have…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Huge Coal Loss From Fire
Fires in scaled off sections, followed by a creep, are stated to have caused a huge loss of coal in No. 1 tunnel of…
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