The Coal Position
IN February the Prime Minister (Mr Curtin) told the nation that he firmly believed that the capacity of Australia to wage the…
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Mining & the mines, 1944
564 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 12 of 29
All Mines Worked Yesterday
SYDNEY, Tuesday: For the first time since November 8, every colliery in New South Wales was working today…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cuts in Coal Consumption Likely
MELBOURNE, Wednesday: The coal position has deteriorated so much in recent months that only…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Boots Missing So Mine Was Idle
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A pair of boots hidden on the top of a partition. apparently by a practical joker, led to the only stoppage on the New…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mine Idle Through Practical Joke on Pit Boy
SYDNEY, Wednesday: A practical joke relayed on a nit boy by a mate laid a coal mine idle to-day and prevented a record of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Output
SYDNEY. Thursday: Compared with one small pit yesterday and none on the previous day two New South Wales coalmines were idle…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Need Again Stressed
MELBOURNE, Thursday: Unless there is an immediate and substantial increase in coal production, vital Australian war…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Low Coal Stocks Cause Alarm
SYDNEY. Thursday.—Latest reports presented to the Commonwealth Government show that while the coal output has…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mines Make Kiel Bay Ships' Cemetery
LONDON, Friday: Swedish shipmaster, Captain Hedberg, who recently made six trips between Sweden and Kiel Canal, told a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Fiasco Continues
PERIODICALLY the community is harried with threats of general restrictions of transport gas and electricity because of…
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SYDNEY, Monday: Coal rationing would increase absenteeism in war industries because of sickness, and even at this late hour it would…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Govt. Takes Over Another Mine
SYDNEY, Morning. — In New South Wales three mines were idle to-day following a production loss of more than 2000 tons. The…
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LONDON, Monday (AAP).—The British are using a new type of nnne with the qualities of both magnetic and acoustic, according…
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LONDON, Monday: The Associated Press correspondent at Stockholm says: A Swedish sailor, after six voyages with German…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday: The production loss of 7000 tons of coal today was due to six mines being idle, five being on the northern field…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday. — Four mines were idle in New South Wales today. The production loss was 2780 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Proposed Second Shift In Mines
SYDNEY, Wednesday: The Central Council of the Miners' Federation would give no assurance today that it would agree…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.— Although the War Railways Committee to-day discussed for some hours the serious coal position, the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ticking Revealed Big Land-mine
The ticking of a clock revealed a gigantic Japanese land-mine to Australian troops delousing the Alexishafen airfields…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Northern Miners Opposed to Afternoon Shift
NEWCASTLE, Monday: The miners' Northern president (Mr Crooks) said tonight that it had been made clear to the…
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