Despite Floods and the Stoppages Half Year's Coal Figures Set New Record
SYDNEY: Coal production for toe first six months of this year Mas been a record, despite flooding and wet weather…
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New Machinery May Win Forty Million Tons of Coal
The Samson Stripper a new all-British machine which wins 100,000 tons of coal yearly—with only five men at the face—is to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Britain's Coal Industry
During 1949, Britain's coal industry, in its third year of public ownership increased its output and exports compared with…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bitter Debate by Miners on Korea Expected
SYDNEY, Friday: A bitter debate is likely to take place over the Korean issue at a meeting of the Miners' Central Council,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Board Member's Death
SYDNEY, Tuesday—Mr. Robert P. Jack, a member of the Joint Coal Board, died early to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Three Miners Seriously Injured Line of Skips Overturns
NEWCASTLE, Wednesday—Three miners were seriously injured when a line of skips overturned on them at Burwood…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Three Men Injured in Mine Accident. Others Have Fortunate Escape As Skips Topple
NEWCASTLE, Wednesday: Three miners were seriously injured when a line of skips overturned on them at Murwood Colliery…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sheep Dog Spends Four Days Down Mine. No Effort, Spared in Junee Reef Rescue
Extraordinary measures had to be taken to rescue a one-and-a-half year old sheep dog which had fallen down an old 65-feet deep…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal and Steel Pool
STRASBOURG, Wed: British Conservatives yesterday presented the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe [?]th…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Funeral of Coal Board Member
SYDNEY, Wednesday: Representatives of the State and Federal Governments and the mining industry attended the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners Expected to Hold Bitter Debate Today
SYDNEY, Wed.: The Miners' Central Council today decided to recommend the reviving of area committees on the coalfields…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Three Miners Seriously Hurt in Bad Smash
NEWCASTLE, Wednesday: Three miners were admitted to hospital seriously hurt end a number of others treated for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Miners Crushingly Defeat Communist Move for Alliance
SYDNEY, Thursday: The Miners' Central Council was told today that rank and file members had overwhelmingly rejected a proposed alliance with the seamen and waterside workers…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Increase in Coal Output
SYDNEY, Friday: Coal output for the year to mid-July was 6,494,000 tons, over a milli[?]tons higher than in the [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Move to Upset Miners Decision Against Alliance
SYDNEY, Friday: A move will be made at a meeting of the Miners' Central Council tomorrow to review a rank-and-file…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Casey Suggests Open-Cut for Oaklands Coal
MELBOURNE, Friday: Open-cut development of coal deposits at Oaklands, in Riverina, might eventually be possible, the Minister for National Development (Mr. Casey) said today…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →British Miners Send Cable to Stalin on Korea
LONDON, Sunday (A.A.P.): A cable sent to M. Stalin yesterday on behalf of 100,000 Durham miners stated: "Withdraw…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tumut Untroubled to Trounce Gundagai Complete Lack of Teamwork And Understanding Made Murrumbidgee Team Look Like Novices Buck and Gold Brigade Gave Woeful Exhibition
THE Tumut team completely outclassed Gundagai in yesterday’s Group 9 competition fixture wincing convincingly by 11 points to 6. Playing constructive football Tumut fully deserved the win, and ran all over Gundagai in the second half of the game. No…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Gold Strikes in Kalgoorlie District
KALGOORLIE, Wednesday—Two prospectors have just recovered £3000 worth of gold from an abandoned mine near…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Pooling Coal, Steel
LONDON, Wednesday: Leading British Conservative Harold McMillan yesterday proposed an "honorable marriage"…
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