Stay-in Strike at Northern Colliery
Fifty employees of a northern colliery began a stay-in strike yesterday morning in an effort to enforce a demand for improved bathroom…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mining & the mines, 1945
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Grave Coal Position; Disastrous Effect on Industry Likely
SYDNEY, Wednesday: Train services may be drastically cut next week, a serious decline in coal stocks having necessitated this move. The Railway Commissioner (Mr. Hartigan) announced to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Miners on Strike
Eight pits and 1300 miners are now idle on northern field following stay in strike of miners at Rhonda colliery. Stay in men have now been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Curtailment of Rail Services: Coal Shortage
Railway services in New South Wales are to be reduced owing to the serious decrease in stocks of coal. His was announced by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mine Strike Ends; Work to Resume To-day
NEWCASTLE, Thurs.: The stay in strike at the Rhondda Colliery ended at 10 o'clock this morning, after the men had been in the pit…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Curtailment of Rail Services Coal Shortage the Cause
SYDNEY, Friday: Railway services in N.S.W. are to be reduced owing to the serious decrease in stocks of coal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Preparations for Occupation of Singapore British Fleet Awaits Orders Malacca Strait to Be Swept of Mines
LONDON, Friday: Major units of the British East Indies Fleet are awaiting orders to steam down the Malacca Strait and occupy…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Loss Million Tons in Under Eight Months
SYDNEY, Mon.: For seven and a half months of this year, up to 1,000,000 tons of coal had been lost in New South Wales because…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Million Tons of Coal Lost In Under Eight Months
SYDNEY, Tuesday: "For 7½ months of this year, up to 1,000,000 tons of coal have been lost in N.S.W. because of strike action." said the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Without Coal, No Prosperity
Now that the community is beginning to realise that the [?]ctacular discovery of a method of splitting the atom is not likely for a long time to be used in industry there is some glimmer of hope that the supreme importance of the one great essential…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Nationalisation of Coalmines Urged Miners' Convention
SYDNEY, Tuesday: "The nationalisation of the coalmining industry as an urgent immediate necessity; the acceptance of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rail Services to Be Cut Further Coal Stocks Low
SYDNEY, Tuesday: Railway services throughout the State are to be further curtailed as a result of a worsening of the coal stocks…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Idle Mines
SYDNEY, Thursday: The coal production loss to-day was 7550 tons from three northern and four southern idle mines. All…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Huge Mine Blast at Mount Morgan
BRISBANE, Thurs.: Seven and a half tons of explosives were sent off at Mount Morgan open cut yesterday in a successful…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal Shortage May Affect Victorian Racing
MELBOURNE. Thursday: The current coal position in Victoria may result in Sydney owners and trainers being unable to send…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →I History of the Adelong Gold- Fields (Article 57)
From this point onwards I do not propose to offer any more i diary entries on the affairs of the partners on the White Dog Reef…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Raider Laid Mines Off Sydney Heads in 1941
An Australian merchant marine cadet officer was a prisoner of war on a German raider which laid mines off Sydney in 1941…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Nationalisation of Coal Mines Urged
"The nationalisation of the coal-mining industry as an urgent immediate necessity; the acceptance of the inevitable advance of mechanisation…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Modern Mining
A recent survey of Britain's coal mines has resulted in a report which recommends that gasification should be introduced. This process…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sensational Theft of Gold Consignment Replaced with Parcel of Nuts and Bolts
CANBERRA. Wednesday. In one of the most audacious thefts in years, a consignment of imported gold worth nearly £2000…
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