Coke Supplies. Reported to Be Dwindling. Navy Department's Coal Stacks. Melbourne
Supplies of smelting coke are becoming exhausted. This coke is distinct from gas coke. The ironworks and the Newport workshops are likely…
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Mining & the mines, 1917
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The Coal Position. Miners Given Until Next Thursday to Return. Sydney
The Acting-Premier (Mr. Fuller) stated last evening that the coal position was being more satisfactorily met and the Government felt justified in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Coal Mines. Amending Bill for Providing Labor. Passes the Legislative Assembly. Sydney
The bill to empower the Minister for Mines to authorise the employment in coal mines of persons other than those specified in the Coal Mines Regulation…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Saved by His Mate. a North Mine Incident
Mr. Alfred Watson, an employee at the North mine, was recently concerned in an accident there which involved a narrow escape from death for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Effect in Broken Hill. Coal Runnning Short. "Ten to Fourteen Days" Supply in Stock
The following statement was made to-day by the president of the Broken Hill Mining Managers' Association:— "As the stocks of coal held by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Strikes. Improving Train and Tram Services Proposed. Legislative Assembly Agrees to Coal Mines Amending Bill. Strike Committee Decides to Call All Men Out. Government Gives Them Till Thursday Next to Return to Work. Extended Waterside Trouble Spoken Of. Train and Tram Services. Operations at the Workshops. Sydney
No trams will be run from about 3 p.m. to-day until Monday morning. Yesterday 230 cars were in commission. Thursday's revenue was a record for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On a Mine-sweeper. in the Submarine Zone
Quietly but with unparalleled courage, England's mine-sweeping flotilla is daily clearing her boasts of the most cruel and insidious of Germany's…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Naval Fight. Near Heligoland Bight. Enemy Destroyer Set on Fire. Mine-sweepers Damaged. Submarine Attacks Fail. (Reuter's Message.) London
The Admiralty reports:— "Our light naval forces scouting in the vicinity of the Heligoland Bight on Thursday sighted an enemy…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →On the Mines
Following the resolution carried at the special meeting of the A.M.A., held yesterday afternoon, the members of the A.M.A. came out on strike right…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Utilising Coal Hulks. Adelaide
The Premier (Mr. Peake) has sent proposals to the Prime Minister to fit up hulks now used for coal with the object of making them seaworthy. He…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In West Australia. Mining Operations Curtailed. Kalgoorlie
The Lake View and Star Company is continuing operations, but the output is being reduced. Operations are being curtailed on the Hannan's Star…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Strikes. the Broken Hill Mines. Mineowners' Committee Waiting for News. Melbourne
The Broken Hill mineowners are awaiting definite advice before the committee is called together to consider the strike of employees…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In Newcastle. Introduction of Labor Into Mines. Suggested Cessation of Work Throughout Australia. Mutton Famine Threatened. Newcastle
The president of the Colliery Employees' Federation said yesterday that that body was not mach alarmed at the Government's threat to introduce…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →State Coal Mines Idle. Melbourne
The State coal mines are idle. The men are declining to work owing to the Sydney unrest…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Statement by the Miners' President
Mr. Baddeley, president of the Colliery Employees' Federation, said on Sunday (says the correspondent of the "Advertiser") that the executive…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Position Becoming Serious. Sydney
The coal position in Sydney is the coming serious. The other States which are depending upon New South Wales for coal are faced with grave…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Another Lithgow Mine Closed Down. Sydney
The Ironworks Tunnel mine, Lithgow, which suplies the ironworks with coal, has been closed down…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Waterworks Employees Exempted. Also All Mine Officials
It is unofficially stated that at a conference of unions held last night it was decided that members of unions employed on the Government…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In Newcastle District. Greta Mines Mechanics Called Out. Sydney
The mechanics at the mines in the Greta district were called out yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In Broken Hill. Pulling Out Visits. to North Mine to De Bavays
At about 3 oclock this afternoon, a crowd of about 300 men marched to the North mine and the De Bavay Treatment Plant for the purpose of pulling…
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