AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 December 1923, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

tUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. COLLIERY OCTITTS. SYDNEY. December 20. Coalminers are fft’kl.* lellows. One day they are on strike and the next ikov are tearing into the bowels ol the earth at almost breakneck speed. Only iveentlv xliev i*stabli-.hed a woihl s lieoril at Mr John Brown's leiaw Main colliery at- Newcastle, with an output !’,,* tlu. shift of 3076 tons. lVrhaps they just wanted to show the coal baron the term by which Mr Brown is generally niiudid to. for the reason, apart from his great possessions, that le* races under the name nt Mr "Baton what they really can do "hen the lit .stfizos them. Mr Brown -ay- t hi- is not merely a. Hash in the ] an. but that the colliery is capable of maintaining the enormous output. A recent Louden cablegram announced that the wvrhl s record for a tunnel colliery had been established at Broadworth Main Culiiorv near Deueaster. v.lxn. in 6 hours •!0 minutes winding time. 21)20 toms ol coal were raised. .1 he output at Relav. .Main ha- surpassed this substantially. j,i ten minutes less winding time. Then there w.s the output for the Richmond Main Colliery, of 2*6710 tons lor the shift. This, tor a shitt mine, i- also regarded as theuomenal. In the vernacular, the coalminers can ce.tninly “hog in ' when they fed in -he mood. Nothing, of course, would delight the coal-owners more than to see them doing this probably ovoiy div.