Chifley May Appeal To Miners
CANBERRA, Tuesday: The Prime Minister, Mr Chifley, may visit the NSW coal fields soon to urge…
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Mining & the mines, 1948
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Reports of Soviet Mines Discounted
SEATTLE, Tuesday: Officials of the United States Navy and Coastguards stations here discount a story, published in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Control of the Coal Industry
Sir.—Your correspondent "Victim" is certainly a champ, as a quick-change artist. First he was of opinion that all the coal…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Still Finding Mines off Q'land Coast
MELBOURNE, Tuesday: An average of six mines a month were still being found drifting off the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Talks Last Night In Effort to Prevent Stopwork by Miners
SYDNEY, Tuesday: A last-minute bid is being made by Federal and State Government Ministers to avert a disastrous stoppage on the N.S.W. coalfields on Thursday. Members of the Joint Coal Board and Miners Federation leaders…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners' Leaders Promise to Seek Coal Peace Stoppage Tomorrow Cancelled
SYDNEY, Wednesday: Miners' Federation leaders today promised to begin immediately at programme to achieve peace in the coal industry. The Federation secretary, Mr G. Grant, who gave this assurance to the Coal Industry Tribunal, Mr F…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Settlement Terms For Coal Crisis
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—After hearing the terms of settlement in the coal crisis the Goal Industry Tribunal (Mr. Gallagher) to-day adjourned indefinitely the hearing of the Joint Coal Board's application for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railways Seek Coal To Move Wheat
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Allocation of coal to enable the railways to move 550 million bushels of last season's wheat to the coast will be…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gold Coast Govt. Fights Distrust
LONDON, Thursday (AAP).—African distrust and suspicion of the European is poisoning life in the Gold Coast…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hitch on Plan to Increase Coal Production
SYDNEY, Thursday: A hitch developed at the conference today between the Joint Coal Board and the Combined Mining Unions Council to discuss the board's proposals to…
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WELLINGTON, Thursday: A bill providing for the nationalisation of privately- owned coal measures from April 1, 1949, was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Letter To The Editor (Letters to the Editor should not exceed 250 words.) Control of the Coal Industry
Sir,—F. Crowther in his latest letter (29/7/48) produces an economist to try to show (unsuccessfully) that when the leader of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Coal Cuts to Be Eased
SYDNEY, Friday.—The Joint Coal Board hopes soon to ease restrictions on coal consumption as a result of fresh negotiations with mining unions to increase production in New South Wales mines…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Drastic Penalties For Disobeying Coal Tribunal
SYDNEY, Friday: Drastic penalties for coal miners and owners who disobey a direction to resume work after a dispute in New South Wales mines are announced today by the Coal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mur-bah Using Too Much Coal
"To much coal is being used the president of the Tweed Shire Council, Cr Alick Buckley, warned…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Objection to Mining Lease
SOUTHPORT, Sunday: The Broadbeach Development Association today decided to object to the application of Mr J. T…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Floating Mine Warning
BRISBANE, Monday: The Navigation Department has broadcast warnings to coastal shipping that a mine has been sighted floating…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Miners to Vote on Back
SYDNEY, Monday: The New South Wales miners will decide by ballot whether they will work on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Less Gold Found in May
CANBERRA Tuesday. — Gold production in Australia for last May was 68,020 fine ounces valued at £732,065 a drop of £A47,130…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Further Beach Mining Opposed
Having given its approval to one application for beach mining rights at Currumbin, Coolangatta Town Council on…
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