Effect of Coal Strike Felt Transport and Gas Restrictions
The Bega District News · Tuesday 28 June 1949 · page 2
To imagine that the people of this district, with its self contained power and gas supply, would feel very little discomfort from the strike which tied up the coalfields of this State yesterday, would be leave one’s self open to a rude…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Plenty of Coal
The South Coast Register · Thursday 30 June 1949 · page 1
There are two thousand million tons of coal within easy reach at Burragorang. You will ask why it isnât…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal at Burragorang Mr. Jeff Bate’s Move to Mine It
The South Coast Register · Thursday 28 July 1949 · page 1
Mr. Jeff Bate, Member for Wollondilly, is pressing for the immediate opening up of the two thousand million tons of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners Making Money Buying Pea Crops
The South Coast Register · Thursday 28 July 1949 · page 1
The enterprise and versatility of young miners on the South Coast who have been placed out of work because of the coal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →“Failed In Coal Strike Issues” Liberals Charge Government
The Bega District News · Friday 29 July 1949 · page 1
Mr. Vernon H. Treaty leader of the State Opposition, in Sydney this week said that & party meeting of Parliamentary members of the Liberral Party charged the State Government with faih[?] to face up to the main issues of the coal struck…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Gas Direct From Mine First U.k. Underground Gasification Experiment
The Bega District News · Friday 16 December 1949 · page 7
Britain’s first experiment in converting coal into gas without mining It will be conducted by the Ministry of Fuel and Power early in the New…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Britain Has Coal Deposits Enough for Two Hundred Years
The Bega District News · Friday 23 December 1949 · page 6
Britain has enough workable coal to last more than two hundred years, assuming it is mined at the rate of 250 millions tons a year. This estimate was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →