Talks to Prevent Lithgow Mine Creep Extension
SYDNEY, Sunday.—Government experts will confer tomorrow on steps to be taken to prevent an extension of the mine creep at…
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Mining & the mines, 1947
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Hope Mines May Be Able to Resume
SYDNEY, Sunday: A meeting of Cessnock branch of the Federated Enginedrivers and Firemen's Association, which was to…
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SYDNEY, Monday: The East Lithgow miners decided today not to continue working near the collapsed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners to Resist Cut In Hewing Rate After Mechanisation
SYDNEY, Monday: Miners' leaders threatened today to resist with all the resources at their disposal an application by the colliery proprietors to the Coal Industry Tribunal for a redaction in the hewing rate consequent on…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday: Engine drivers on the Cessnock coalfields refused to resume work tonight because no public…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday: The Cessnock mines and all New South Wales open cut mines, which have been…
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CANBERRA, Wednesday: Coalcliff colliery, on the South Coast of New South Wales, which was…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday: Fresh tremors were felt today in East Lithgow indicating a further subsidence in the Vale Clwydd…
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CANBERRA, Wednesday.—The Federal Government today agreed to transfer the powers of the Central Coal Reference Board to the Coal…
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CANBERRA, Wednesday.—The Coalcliffe colliery on the South Coast of New South Wales, which was taken over by the…
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CANBERRA, Wednesday: The Federal Government today agreed to transfer the powers of the Central Coal Reference…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →B.h.p. Workers Stood Down: Coal Shortage
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A large number of men are to be stood down at the B.H.P. steelworks at Newcastle as the result of the coal…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday: At dawn today, detectives, with ropes and ladders, searched old mining shafts at Little Bendigo…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday. —Detectives are searching old mining shafts near Ballarat for £900…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dept.ReportonN.C. Coal Resources
GRAFTON, Monday.—The views of the State Electricity Authority on the possibility of using local coal for steam power generation stations on the Clarence or Richmond River districts were disclosed in a…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday: "Coal miners will not work on public holidays at the present wages," the Miners' Federation president…
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CANBERRA, Wednesday: The Prime Minister (Mr Chifley) said in the House of Representatives today that he doubted if he could…
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SYDNEY, Thursday: Coal miners were granted additional annual sick leave by the Coal Industry Commission today…
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BRISBANE, Thursday.— A Supreme Court jury today returned a verdict for the Crown for £67,235, the full amount claimed in its action…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.— The Coal Industry Tribunal today awarded 13,000 miners in Queensland, N.S.W., Victoria and Tasmania additional…
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