Ships Mostly Coal Burners
In 1939 the world's shipping was approximately 45 per cent coal burning, 30 per cent oil burning and 25 per cent Diesel as compared with 27…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →North West (Tamworth to Moree) · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1948
51 stories in North West (Tamworth to Moree)'s papers · page 1 of 3
The Steel Behind the Coal
Second only to the miners' call for men is the miners' call for steel to build the equipment which will make the miners' work result in a maximum tonnage of coal at the surface. The cure is on the way—more mechanisation and more long-term…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal to Burn for 100 Years
Queensland, in one freak deposit, has enough fuel coal to supply all of Australia and build up a tremendous export market…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fluorescent Lighting for Mines LONDON
Tests are being carried out in Britain to determine whether fluorescent lighting provides the most suitable form of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →French Parliament May Pass Gold Bill. PARIS
The Prime Minister, M. Schulman, may yet force his Free Gold Market Bill through the National Assembly…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Free Gold Market Bill. Paris, Wednesday (A.A.P.)
A Government spokesman announced after a meeting of M. Schuman's Cabinet yesterday, that the Government has decided…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lord Hyndley, C.b.e., Chairman of the National Coal Board
Lord Hyndley, presiding at a Session of the National Coal Board. At the age of 64 he is the head of the biggest industrial enterprise in the world, with assets of approximately £6,000,000,000, with 750,000 employees and an annual wages bill of £300,000,000…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Indicates Miners Won't Back Q'land Rail Strike [?]-Strikers Again Take Brisbane Trains Out to Time BRISBANE
Although, under the watchful eyes of the police units and strike pickets, trains being operated by non-strikers again got away to time this morning. The prospects of maintaining the present skeleton services are not…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners Out As Protest in Q'sland Strike Sydney
Most N.S.W. coal miners were idle in protest against the clash yesterday between the police and strikers in Brisbane…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Britain Steps Up Coal Exports
Fifteen to sixteen million tons of coal mined in the United Kingdom are to be sent overseas this year—ten million tons more than in 1947…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Critical Coal Situation SYDNEY
Western N.S.W. mining lodges today are discussing their attitude to the establishment of pit-top conciliation committees designed to prevent unnecessary stoppages on the coalfields…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Upset by Coal Position. Restoration of North-West Trains
Restoration of the train service in the north-western area, promised by the Railway Commissioner from May 30, had been upset…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Large Coal Deposits at Gunnedah
According to a Department of Mines report, there are extensive coal bearing deposits in Gunnedah district. Coal mining companies have known…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Serious Coal Situation Forces Drastic Power Cuts SYDNEY
Drastic cuts in railway and tram services, because of coal and power shortages, are being considered by a special transport committee in Sydney to-day. It is expected there will be no trams running in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Eight Idle Mines Cause Further Coal Trouble SYDNEY
Idleness at eight N.S.W. coal mines today will lower today's coal yield below the 49,000 tons mark instead of a possible 56,000 and reduce the prospects of an early lifting of coal cuts to essential services and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Eight Mines Idle To-day. Sydney
Idleness at eight New South Wales coalmines today will lower to-day's coal yield below the 49000 tons mark instead of a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Move Toward Nationalisation of Coal Industry SYDNEY
The Joint Coal Board is negotiating for the purchase of small mines and collieries capable of mechanisation or a higher degree of mechanisation in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →It All Depends on Coal
Industry throughout the whole of the Commonwealth is dangerously close to complete breakdown, as each day it anxiously wonders if power…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners to Discuss Saturday Work SYDNEY
A move to reintroduce back Saturday work on the coalfields will be discussed in Sydney today by the executive of the Miners Federation and N.S.W. district presidents as part of the Federation's scheme to increase…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners Donate Pay To Widow LITHGOW
Coal miners at the Commonwealth open cut mine will not attend the funeral of a workmate today, but will work, and donate their pay to his widow. The dead miner, Maxwell K. Campbell, 112…
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