Coal Rationing Talk Described as "Premature"
SYDNEY, Thursday: A Joint Coal Board spokesman said tonight that reports that coal rationing to industrial users was threatened were "completely premature."…
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Special Mining Technique to Be Demonstrated
SYDNEY, Thursday: A special mining technique developed by the Atlas Diesel Company in Sweden will be demonstrated to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners Refuse To Cut Xmas Holidays Next Move Up to Joint Coal Board
SYDNEY, Friday: New South Wales miners have now officially notified the Joint Coal Board that they have rejected the Board's proposal that they take two…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Action Fails Against Coal Board
SYDNEY, Friday: The Joint Coal Board was at liberty to obtain ejectment orders against tenants of Frazer House Bridge…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rail Concessions on Coal and Timber From North to Be Cancelled
SYDNEY, Friday: Railway freight charge agreements for bringing coal from some Northern Collieries and timber from the North Coast and main Northern lines will be cancelled from December 31…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Six Jam Tins Full of Gold
Veteran miner, Mr C. H. Chapman, quietly handed over to the bank in Alice Springs recently no less than six jam tins full of gold, totalling…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mining Machine Impresses Overseas Engineers
The British mining machine with a world reputation is making new records at a North of England colliery. The machine is called the "Meco…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Board Expects Enough Coal For Christmas Position to Be Reviewed
SYDNEY, Monday: The Joint Coal Board will advise the Miners' Federation this week that if coal production is kept at its present level there may be enough supplies for Christmas…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →U.S. Coal Strike Miners Ordered Back
CHICAGO, Thursday—John L. Lewis and his United Mine workers' Policy committee have ordered 380,000 striking…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Enough Coal for Xmas Likely
SYDNEY, Wednesday: New uSoth Wales miners will have to produce an average of 186,000 tons of coal a week between now…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →U.s. President Firm on Gold Price
WASHINGTON, Friday — President Truman told a Press conference that the price of gold in the United States, now 35…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Council's Loss on Gas Power Coal Strike Played Big Part
A number of Indirect causes Including a recent coal strike and increased basic wage and and coal costs, were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Healthy, Happy — and Back to Mothers "Now as Good as Gold"
MIGRANT BABIES who were taken to hospital from the liner Anna Salen with measles when they arrived from Europe, left…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mine Worker Killed Near Cessnock Crashed by Mechanical Tipping Device
SYDNEY, Monday: A fifty five year old mine worker was crushed to death between a mechanical upping device and a coal skip at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Film Review "Make Mine Music"
The current show at the Capitol), "Make Mine Music" is another Disney triumph—a film that is born from the magic of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two Mines Idle After Tragedies
SYDNEY, Monday: Charles Ackers, 55, pit-top hand of Bellbird, was crushed to death at Pelton Mine, near Cessnock…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Nangus Withdraws From Hogan Gold Cup
Unable to field a team in the first grade competition Nangus has decided to withdraw from all Hogan Gold Cup fixtures…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Miners May Oust Red Leaders Big Communist Setback in North
SYDNEY, Wed.: Labor Party supporters may gain control of the Miners' Federation from the Communists in the New Year as the result of ballots for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two Mining Officials Overcome by Gas Bodies Recovered This Morning
CESSNOCK, Thursday.—Two officials of the Millfield-Greta Colliery were overcome by "black damp" gas, and died while inspecting the mine. They were Raymond John Lane (35), under…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two Collapse, Die After Entering Mine
CESSNOCK, Thursday: Two mine officials collapsed and died yesterday when they descended into a pocket of deadly "black damp" gas in an abandoned section of Millfield colliery…
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