35-Hour Week for N. Zealand Miners
WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Thursday.--The Minister for Mines (Mr. McLagan) said last night that a seven-hour, five…
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35-Hour Week for N. Zealand Miners
WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Thursday.--The Minister for Mines (Mr. McLagan) said last night that a seven-hour,…
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Operations at the Florence Mine at Daylesford had been suspended except for a drive on a recently discovered body of…
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Coal output loss from strikes this week of 53,000 tons is the highest weekly loss this year, with the…
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Fight mins in the north one in the south and one the west are idle today but production for the day should be about be 44,00 tons…
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EIGHT mines are idle in the north today and there is one stoppage in the south and one in the west…
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CANBERRA, Friday. -- The Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) said in the House of Representatives today…
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Gold Prospecting and Development N.L. has accepted a six-month free testing option over the Jubilee mine sands, the…
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Sir,—In the letter from R. Windeyer in Thursday's "Herald," he has made out a good case as regards the reopening of the…
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Methods for increasing coal production will be discussed at a conference convened by the Minister for Supply and…
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Low-quality, "dirty" coal sent from northern and western fields in NSW to consumers causes enormous economic losses in waste of manpower, transport, and money…
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MELBOURNE, Saturday. -- The Victorian Government is expected to introduce a bill in the next session of…
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Development of Blair Athol coalfield in Queensland may change the whole structure of Australia's industrial set-up. British company, the Electric Supply Corporation…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.--The Victorian Government has decided to introduce a bill to authorise the £16,000,000 brown…
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MELBOURNE, Saturday. -- The Victorian Government is expected to introduce a bill in the next session of…
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MEXICO CITY.—Miners here are renewing theri demand that the Mexican government nationalise the mines as negotiations for new…
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WASHINGTON, Saturday.—The United States Department of Commerce reports that Britain shipped £5,701,750 (Stg.)…
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A fortune was left with bookmakers when Westralian, the crack three-year-old from Western Australia,…
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Senator Ashley, the Government's chief trouble-fixer, has called for this week a conference of coal interests, to see…
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NEWCASTLE, Tuesday-- The Northern Miners' Board of Management has pledged financial support to the…
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