The Maitland Coalmines. Pelaw-main Colliery
The Pelaw-Main miners received another week's victimised pay on Thursday, at the rate of £1 per man, and a small allowance for each child under 14. The money was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1911
875 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 19 of 44
At the Mining Townships
At most of the schools in the mining district the Empire Day celebrations were of a quiet nature. The children were assembled at the usual hour, and were…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mining Situation in the District. a Momentous Crisis Arises Newcastle. Monday afternoon
The miners' lodge of this and the Maitland district are to-day dealing with a momentous question, thier votes on the matter having more than the possibility of a general strike…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Junior Competiion. ("Notable Australian Explorers.") First, gold medal (presented by Mr James Fallick, M.L.A.). Written by Alick Gould
Australia is a young country, and, so far, it has few heroes. These heroes are men who attained that title, not amid the clamour of war, but in the peaceful…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Work at the Collieries
Good time was again made by the majority of the collieries in the Newcastle and Maitland districts for the fortnight ended on Saturday. Out of 31 mines in the two…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Welsh Colliery Strike
The representatives of the South Wales miners have rejected the proposals for the provisional settlement of the Cambrian strike…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Minmi-pelaw Main Collieries. Peace Proposals. Kurri Kukri
It is reported here that the miners employed at Messrs. Brown's Minmi collieries gave agreed to accept an offer by Mr. John Brown to give the miners the present…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →General Cables. Electric Mine Lamp. London, May 27
A colliery owner placed at the disposal of Mr. Winston Chruchill the sum of £1000 as a prize for the best invention of an electric mine lamp…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Welsh Colliery Strike. Extreme Measures Proposed. London, Monday night
The South Wales' miners' delegates have resolved to ask the National Conference of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain to declare a national stoppage on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Welsh Miners' Strike. (By Cable). London,Monday
The representatives of the South Wales minors have rejected the terms of the provisional settlement of the Cambrian strike…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tramway Extension. Opinions in the Mining Towns. Kurri Kurri
The secretary to the Kurri Progress Association, Mr. S. Rees, has received a letter from Mr. W. Keareley, M.L.A., advising him of the proposed visit to the Maitland district, of the Tramway…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Maitland Coalmines. Abermain Miners' Lodge
At a meeting of the Abermain Miners' Lodge held on Sunday, the following notice of motion was tabled, to the executive of the federation: "That Abermain…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners and Strikes. a Peace. Proposal
It is reported that the miners employed at Mr John Brown's Minmi (Newcastle) collieries have accepted an offer by that gentleman to give the miners the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gold Weather
Like various parts of the Commonwealth very low temperatures have prevailed here since Sunday. Monday and Tuesday nights were bitterly cold, the days chilly, the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Miners and Strikes. a Peace Proposal
It is reported that the miners employed at Mr. John Brown's Miami (Newcastle) collieries, have accepted an offer by that gentleman to give the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pelaw Main Colliery
The pay-sheet at the Pelaw Main colliery yesterday amounted to something like £3000. This, of course, is much below the average, as the miners had only three days to draw…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Proposed State Mine. Railway Commissioner's Position
The possibility of friction between the State Government and the Chief Railway Commissioner over the question of a State coal mine was touched upon in the Legislative…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Miners' Remarkable Escape a Fall of 120 FEET
A Andrews, whilst working in the Blocks pump shaft, Broken Hill had a vellous experience. Some six-inch pipes being lowered, when three lengths fell off…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Pelaw-main Colliery
The committee of the Pelaw-Main miners ledge held a special meeting on Sunday which several matters of importance to the miner were diseussed. The actual object for which the meeting was called…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Welsh Coal Strike. Cambrians Criticised. London, Sunday, afternoon
Mr. Ashton, secretary to the Miners Federation of Geat. Britain, has issued a circular an[?]nadveting upon the Cambrians for rejecting the agreement which emhodied what was asked…
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