Railway Appeal for Coal
SYDNEY, Friday: The Joint Coal Board will assist the New South Wales Railway Department by arranging to load 10,000 tons…
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Mining & the mines, 1949
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Coal Output By Miners At Maximum Miners' Secretary
SYDNEY, Sunday. — Until the New South Wales coal mines are nationalised, reorganised and mechanised, it will be impossible for the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gold Salvage Attempt Soon
LONDON, Monday (AAP). — First attempts to recover gold worth several million sterling, which has been at the bottom of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Quick Loading of Timber During Miners' Holidays
GRAFTON, Monday. — Many thousands of feet of timber piled up at North Coast railway sidings are being cleared by the Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Plan to Get Gold From Sunken Ship
LONDON, Monday: Attempts to recover gold worth several million pounds sterling, which has been at the bottom of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mine Host Gets Top Weight
SYDNEY, Tuesday. — Carrington Stakes winner, Mine Host, has been allotted the top weight of 9.3 for the Challenge Stakes, the last…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →U.s. Gold Hoard
WASHINGTON, Tuesday: United States gold stocks totalling 24,230 million dollars (£A7,300million) now amount to the greatest gold…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Gold Coast Cocoa Trees Hit by Disease
LONDON, Tuesday: A British Colonial Office report states that at least 50million cocoa trees, affected by a virus disease…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Increase in Germany Coal Output
ESSEN, Wednesday : A postwar record in Western German coal production was made during. December, with a total output of,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Big Canadian Gold Reserves
EDMONTON, Thursday (AAP).— The Canadian Finance Minister (Mr. D. C. Abbott) told the Edmonton Chamber of Commerce last…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Canada's Big Gold and D0ller Reserves
EDMONTON, Thursday: The Canadian Finance Minister, Mr. D. C. Abbott, told the Edmonton Chamber of Commerce last…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Union Ban on Holiday Mining
SYDNEY, Thursday: The Federated Engine drivers and Firemen's Association will direct its…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →F.e.d.f.a. Sec. Orders Coal Mining to Stop
SYDNEY, Friday: The State Secretary of the Federated Engine-drivers and Firemen's Union, Mr W. Lane, declared tonight that there would be "hell to pay" if the Joint Coal Board…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shortage of Coal Not Likely
SYDNEY, Sunday. — Country electricity and gas undertakings are not likely to run short of coal before the miners resume work on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Qld. Coal Stoppage Averted
BRISBANE, Monday.—A Statewide coal stoppage was threatened to-day. Arrangements to carry the threat into effect, however, were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Qld. Coal Strike Deferred
IPSWICH, Monday: Coal miners' action in respect to State-wide stoppages has been deferred pending an all-party conference on…
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LITHGOW, Monday. — Open cut mines at Benbullen and Lidsdale provided almost 1000 tons of coal for essential services today…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Out for Coal Record
LONDON, Tuesday: Britain is confident that her coal exports during 1949 will beat all postwar…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Queensland Coal Dispute Settled
BRISBANE, Wednesday:--A basis of settlement for the Burgowan dispute, which threatened wide repercussions, was reached…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Combined Mining Unions' Council Executive decided today against the resumption of work in any New South Wales open cut mines before next Monday…
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