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Mining & the mines, 1913

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The Small Coal Question

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 20 August 1913 · page 5

After dealing with the Pelaw-Main case, the Board proceeded to hear further evidence called by the proprietors in answer to the miners' claims for 1/6 a ton for small coal…

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Mining Rescue Station

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 20 August 1913 · page 4

An area of 2 ¼ acres of land adjoining the Kurri Kurri Post-office (says our mines representative) has been set apart by the authorities as a site for a mining…

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Schooner Sunk. with Coal Cargo

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 20 August 1913 · page 7

Details have been received in Sydney regarding the fate of the four-masted schooner J. H. Lunsmann, which was sunk in collision in San Francisco Harbour shortly…

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Mining Matters. the Pelaw-main Dispute

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 20 August 1913 · page 6

The Coalminers' Wages Board again sat in Newcastle yesterday, to deal with the reference by the Minister of Labour and Industry concerning the payment for work…

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Miners' Wages Board. the Pelaw-main Case. Board's Award. Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 20 August 1913 · page 5

His. Honor Judge Edmunds, caairman, this morning delivered the award of the Miners' Wages Board on tho two following questions affecting Pelaw-Main colliery…

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West Wallsend Colliery. Two Days Idle. Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 August 1913 · page 5

West Wallsend colliery was stopped yes-terday and to-day through a dispute between the management and the youths em-ployed at the mine. Several hundred hands…

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The Small Coal Question. Evidence Before Wages Board. Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 August 1913 · page 5

The Minors' Wages Board, presided over by Judge Edmunds, this morning resumed the hearing of the colliery proprietors' evidence in reply to the Miners Federation's claims…

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New Goldfield. Belgian Congo Discovery. Johannesburg, Aug. 20

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 August 1913 · page 5

Authoritative accounts have been received of the discovery of a new goldfield near Kitte, in Belgian congo. It is asserted that the reefs there yield 70 per cent of gold…

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Mining Matter. Small Coal Question

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 22 August 1913 · page 6

Evidence on behalf of the proprietors on the question of paying for small coal was continued before the Coalminers' Wages' Board (Judge Edmunds presiding) at…

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Broxburn Colliery Idle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 22 August 1913 · page 6

Work was suspended at Broxburn Coillery, Greta, at noon on Tuesday, and the pit has not worked since. It is said that the step was decided on by the manager…

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The Wages Board. More About Small Coal. Newcastle, Friday afternoon

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 22 August 1913 · page 5

The principal witness at the Miners Wages Board hearing to-day was James Burr, manager of the Co-operative colliery, who gave evidence supporting the proprietors '…

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Mining Matters. Work at THe COLLIERIES

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 August 1913 · page 14

The brisk state of the coal trade has continued during the past fortnight so far as the collieries of Newcastle and Maitland districts generally are concerned, and 22 of them…

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The Small Coal Question

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 August 1913 · page 7

After dealing with the Pelaw-Main case, the Board proceeded to hear further evidence called by the proprietors in answer to the miners' claims for 1/6 a ton for small coal…

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Strikes and This Coal Output

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 23 August 1913 · page 5

The output of coal In the United Kingdom In 1912 decreased by over 9,000,000 tons as a result of strikes…

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Schooner Sunk. with Coal Cargo

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 August 1913 · page 7

Details have been received in Sydney regarding the fate of the four-masted schooner J. H. Lunsmann, which was sunk in collision in San Francisco Harbour shortly…

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Mining Accident. Delhi

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 23 August 1913 · page 5

It is reported that a cage in the Edgar shaft of a gold mine at Mysor fell to the bottom, killing 50 persons…

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Canadian Miners' Strike. Situation Controlled. Vancouver

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 23 August 1913 · page 5

The strike of tho Nanaima miners has practically been suppressed. The military effected the arrest of 150 of the ringleaders. The special police now control the…

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Miners' Wages Board. the Pelaw-main Case. Board's Award. Newcastle

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 August 1913 · page 7

His Honor Judge Edmunds, chairman, this, morning delivered the award of the Miners' Wages Board on the two following questions affecting Pelaw-Main colliery…

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Late Cables New Goldfield

Singleton Argus · Saturday 23 August 1913 · page 6

Johannesburg, Wednesday.—Authoritative accounts have been reccived of the discovery of a new goldfield near Kito, in Belgian Congo. It is asserted that…

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THE Weswellbrook Chronicle O, [?] weapon, left for truth's defence Sole dread of folly, vice and insolence, everent we touch thee! but with honest zeal [?] [?] of the public weal Saturday Aug 23 1913 LOCAL & Generai News. Mining

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 23 August 1913 · page 2

It is reported that a Newcastle syndicate has secured Mr. H. Hall's proparty, at Dry Creek, Upper Hunter, and has sent up a quantity of…

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