Conference Today on Coal Stoppages and Crisis
Daily Advertiser · Friday 9 July 1948 · page 1
SYDNEY, Thursday: The miners' leaders will hold a special conference with members of the Joint Coal Board in Sydney tomorrow to discuss the coal crisis. All aspects of coal production and the causes…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Proposal to Increase Coal Production
Daily Advertiser · Saturday 10 July 1948 · page 1
SYDNEY, Friday: The Joint Coal Board today proposed [?] Miners' Federation that "back" (alternative) Saturday shifts…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Penalties—but Not Against Miners!
Cootamundra Herald · Monday 12 July 1948 · page 2
"The Premier announced heavy penalities for failure to observe the drastic restrictions which his Government has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners May Work Extra Shift
Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 13 July 1948 · page 1
SYDNEY, Monday: Miners' leaders today postponed for one week a decision on a Joint Coal Board proposal that New…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →How Communists Control Industry Through Coal
Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 13 July 1948 · page 3
Stoppages at five northern collieries, and subsequent disputes in the coal industry, have inflicted drastic gas rationing on much of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Importation of Coal Would Solve Electricity Problem
Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 13 July 1948 · page 1
SYDNEY, Tuesday—Every country except Australia seemed to have a surplus of coal, the chairman of the Sydney County…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →No Decision Yet on Extra Shift for Miners
Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 13 July 1948 · page 1
SYDNEY, Tuesday—Miners' leaders postponed for one week a decision on a Joint Coal Board proposal that New South Wales'…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Rationing Likely to Last All Winter
Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 13 July 1948 · page 1
Rationing of coal by the Joint Coal Board to New South Wales, Victorian and South Australian consumers is likely to last until the end of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Big Loss in Tram Revenue Due to Coal Shortage
Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 13 July 1948 · page 1
SYDNEY, Monday: Despite an increase in bus revenue in Sydney and Newcastle yesterday of £1750, there was a loss in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →State's New Coal Mine Opened
Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 14 July 1948 · page 1
SYDNEY, Wednesday:— The Awaba coal mine, one of the three new State mines, Was officially opened today by the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →10 Per Cent. Cut in Beer Because of Coal Position
Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 14 July 1948 · page 1
SYDNEY, Wednesday — Tooth's draught beer to all N.S.W. hotels will be cut by 10 per cent. from today…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners Give Day's Wages to Widow
Daily Advertiser · Thursday 15 July 1948 · page 1
SYDNEY, Wednesday: Mineworkers at the Commonwealth open-cut mine at Lithgow, on the Western N.S.W. coalfields…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Victorian Govt. Criticised on Coal Position
Daily Advertiser · Thursday 15 July 1948 · page 2
MELBOURNE, Wednesday: Criticising the Government for its handling of the coal position, the former Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gold and Wool Prices Comparative Rises
The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 15 July 1948 · page 8
The price of wool has been considered by many people to have been very high. It is decidedly higher than, immediately prior to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Meeting Urges Nationalisation of Coal and Gas
Daily Advertiser · Thursday 15 July 1948 · page 2
SYDNEY, Wednesday: More than 1500 people at a public meeting tonight organised by the Miners' Federation called for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Civic Matters Wagga Coal Consumption; Kindergarten Property: Homes for Aged
Daily Advertiser · Saturday 17 July 1948 · page 3
The establishment of homes in Riverina for aged people was a long-felt want, the Mayor (Ald. L. Barrand) said at a meeting of the Wagga City Council last night…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →How Communists Control Industry Through Coal
The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 20 July 1948 · page 3
Stoppages of five northern collieries, and subsequent disputes in the coal industry, have inflicted drastic gas rationing on much of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gold and Wool Prices Comparative Values
The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 20 July 1948 · page 4
The price of wool has been considered by many people to have been very high. It is decidedly higher than immediately prior to the war,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Abandoned Baby Blue with Gold, Survives
Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 20 July 1948 · page 2
SYDNEY, Monday: After being found naked and blue in this morning's intense cold, an abandoned newly born baby…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Shortage May Cause Slump in Industry
Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 20 July 1948 · page 1
SYDNEY. Monday: The Prime Minister wanted Increased production, and industry was anxious to help, but shortage of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →