Miners' Wages Board. Matters of Precedence. Newcastle
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 5 November 1913 · page 5
A successful application made this morning by the colliery proprietors to the Miners' Wages Board has brought about another rearrangement in the order of dealing with…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 5 November 1913 · page 3
A meeting of the South Greta miners was held at the tunnel mouth yesterday morning when, as the result of alleged non-fulfilled promises made by the…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 November 1913 · page 2
A deputation, representing the South Great Miners' Lodge, with Mr. W. Brentian, district secretary, conferred with Mr. A. J. Miller, the manager, yesterday,…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 November 1913 · page 5
The explorers at Senghennyd to-day recovered 44 bodies…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 November 1913 · page 2
The committee, consisting of Mr. D. A. A. Robertson. Metropolitan colliery (chairman), A. A. Arkinson, Chief Inspector of Coalmin[?] R. A. Harle, A. A…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Danger of Coal Dust
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 7 November 1913 · page 4
The committee appointed by the Minister of Mines to investigate the subject of coal dust spent a busy day in Sydney yesterday. The members went through a paper…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 7 November 1913 · page 4
For some time past the Tooloom and Woodenbung Butter Factory at Urbenville, on the Upper Richmond River, has been using locally obtained coal for fuel…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 7 November 1913 · page 7
The award of the board in the Pelaw-Main case has now been completed, and is as follows:—(1) That every machine man working the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →District Collieries. the Next Pay. Newcastle
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 8 November 1913 · page 5
For the pay to be drawn by the minors next Friday, the district collieries have worked good time during the fortnight that ends at the pits to-day. Nine pits have…
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The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 8 November 1913 · page 11
Complaints have been made lately that sold coins have been extracted from the bags of bullion forwards from the Continent to London. Several hundreds of gold…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Peculiar Colliery Fatalities. Drowned in a Cage. London, Friday evening
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 8 November 1913 · page 5
Wh[?] a three-decker cage was travelling to the surface at Bromley colliery, Somerset, an accident to the ma[?]nery caused the cage to des[?]and into the sump, where three…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Old Man's Suicide. 1 Down's a Colliery Shaft. Newcastle
The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 8 November 1913 · page 7
Ellermore Yale colliery was thrown idle, today through a very unusual cause. When the miners descended this morning they found at the shaft bottom the mangled body of an old man,…
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The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 8 November 1913 · page 7
Mr. A. C. Willis, secretary to' the South Coast Miners' Federation, referred to coal dust in mines, when speaking at the Eight hour sports at Newcastle yesterday He…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Pelaw-main Colliery Fatality. Inquest at Kurri Kurri. Kurri Kurri
The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 8 November 1913 · page 6
The adjourned inquest concerning the death of William Richardson, who died in Kurri Hospital on October 21 from Injuries received in Pelaw-Main Colliery on October…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Miners' Wages Board. Matters of Precedence. Newcastle
The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 8 November 1913 · page 7
A successful application made this morning by the colliery proprietors in the Miners' Wages Board has brought about another rearrangement in the order of dealing with…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →New Zealand Strike, Miners and Tram Men Out. Firemen Leave Vessels. Auckland (N.z.)
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 8 November 1913 · page 5
The wharf-labourers on strike were orderly to-day. No trams will be run tomorrow. The employees at the Exhibition Buildings have ceased working. Justices…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 10 November 1913 · page 2
The relief funds in connection1 with the recent colliery disaster at Senghenydd total £55,000. Fifty thousand people viewed the wedding presents of Prince Arthur of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →General Cable News. Welsh Colliery Disaster
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 10 November 1913 · page 5
Twenty more bodies have been recovered at Senghenydd. Six of the victims apparently lived for some time after explosion…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Maitland Coalmines. Miners' Lodge
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 10 November 1913 · page 2
The monthly meeting of the Stanford-Methyr minors' lodge was held at the Empire Hall, yesterday, at which Mr. J. J. Hudson presided…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining Matters. Work at the Pits
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 10 November 1913 · page 6
Work at the collieries has been carried on during the fortnight fairly well. A large number of the pits got in full time, allowing for the cessation on Eight-hour…
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