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Mining & the mines, 1913

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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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Mining Matters. Trouble at South Greta

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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Mining Matters. South Great Colliery

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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Welsh Colliery Disaster

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 November 1913 · page 5

The explorers at Senghennyd to-day recovered 44 bodies…

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Coal-dust Inquiry

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…

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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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Coal on the Upper Richmond

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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Mining Matters. Pelaw-main Award

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…

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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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Theft of Gold Coins

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…

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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…

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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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Goal Dust in Mines. Catastrophe May Occur

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…

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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…

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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…

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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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Recent Colliery Disaster

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…

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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…

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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…

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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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