AUSTRALIA’S COAL PRODUCTION

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22313, 24 April 1947, Page 5

AUSTRALIA’S COAL PRODUCTION

SYDNEY, April 23. In the next ten years Australia may have to produce 50,000,000 tons of coal yearly instead of the present 11,000,000 to meet the demands of industry, said Professor David Jones, Professor of Mining- at Cardiff University, Wales.

Professor Jones, who is in Australia at the invitation of the Federal Government to report on the mining industry, has made seven weeks’ inspection of the New South Wales fields and is now going to other States. Professor Jones urged an immediate survey of coal resources, the establishment of a University Chair of Mining

to direct research and the education of miners and the public to counter industrial suspicion, mechanisation of the mines, increased mechanical control of dust and a preliminary and periodical examination of all miners. lie -aid that from both material and psychological points of view, education was the most urgent need in the min ing industry.