Melbourne's Coal Stocks Improve
MELBOURNE, Monday: Although coal stocks have improved Melbourne is still short of supplies for industry, electric power and railways…
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Critical Coal Position in Victoria
MELBOURNE, Monday: The coal position on the railways is desperate, Commissioner N. C. Harris said to-day. Locomotive depots in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners and State A.L.P. Get Together Nationalisation of Industry
SYDNEY, Tuesday: A plan to reorganise the New South Wales coal industry, including the setting up of a statutory authority which…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday: All mines on southern and western N.S.W. coalfields worked to-day, but on the northern fields there were stoppages…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →General Coal Strike in Queensland Expected to Paralyse Industry
SYDNEY, Wednesday: A general strike on all Queensland coalfields was agreed to to-day by a majority vote, the central executive of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →State Control of N.S.W. MINES A.L.P. Conference to Consider Plan
SYDNEY, Wednesday: The State A.L.P. Conference, which will open In Sydney next week-end, will be asked to agree to Government…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Federal-state Plan to Control Coal Mines in N.S.W. Claimed to Be Semi-Nationalisation
CANBERRA, Thursday: A joint Commonwealth-State authority will be set up for the purpose of re-organising and rehabilitating the coal industry in New-South Wales. Parliamentary draftsmen of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rich Coal in Heart of Sydney
SYDNEY, Friday: The director of Mutual Gas and Oil Corporation (Mr. DR. Windeyer, K.C.) said to-day that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Britain Weeds Out the Misfits From Her Coal Mines
LONDON, Monday: Nearly 30,000 workers were being discharged from coal mines in the next six weeks in an effort to make the industry…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gold Watch Found
The Wagga police have in their possession a woman's gold wristlet watch, which was found in Wagga on Saturday night. The owner should…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Australian Bound Ship Strikes Mine
LONDON, Sunday: The Netherlands steamer Meerkerk (8000 tons) bound from Rotterdam to Australia, struck a mine near West…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Munitions Dispute May Disrupt Coal Industry
MELBOURNE, Tuesday: In the Federal Arbitration Court tomorrow Judge O'Mara will deliver judgment on the Deer Park…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Position Grave in South Australia
ADELAIDE, Tuesday: The Premier (Mr. Playford) said today that the coal position was so grave in South Australia that supplies in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mine Stoppage Threatened Over V-day Pay
CESSNOCK, Tuesday. A stoppage of all mines on the South Maitland coalfields next Monday is threatened by the Maitland Association, which…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Efforts to Avoid Coal Stoppage
SYDNEY, Wednesday: In an effort to avoid a hold-up on South Maitland coalfields next Monday, the Commonwealth Coal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Disabled Miners to Get £1000 each
SYDNEY, Wednesday: Disabled from work because their lungs were infected ty coal-dust, nine South Coast miners were each…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Melbourne Coal Shortage
MELBOURNE, Thursday: The manager of the Metropolitan Gas Co. (Mr. R. G. Evans) said to-day that the immediate introduction of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Little Coal Left in Victoria
MELBOURNE, Friday: Stocks of coal in hand throughout the whole of the State at midnight last Saturday were 20,112 tons. This…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Shortage Causes Electricity Crisis More Severe Power Cuts Inevitable
SYDNEY, Sunday: "Desperate" was the term applied last night by the Minister for Local Government (Mr. Cahill) to the coal, power and transport crisis. Mr. Cahill said there was no room for optimism. Figures submitted to him showed that the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Biggest Gold Rush Since Klondyke Golden Circus In South Africa
The greatest gold rush since the Klondyke was on [?] a recent exchange. But most of the prospectors were the slick, sharp-eyed spec…
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