Broken Hill Miners. Arbitration Award
In the Federal Arbitration Court. Melbourne Mr. Justice Higgins delivered his award in the Broken Hill claim.He granted the 44 hours week and provided increase in…
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Mining & the mines, 1916
813 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 12 of 41
Black Sea Mines. Extraordinary Inscription. Petrograd, May 3
It Is officially stated that it minefield has been discovered in the Black Sea, all the mines bearing the inscription: "Christ is Risen."…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →German Mine Sweepers. Sunk by British Submarines. (By Cable.) London, Thursday Night
A Danish paper states that in October last eight German mine sweepers, undor the auxiliary cruiser Kaiser, anchored in the Sound at Jutland. Several…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Work at the Collieries
Following upon the Easter holidays, the collieries for the pay ending on Saturday last worked satisfactory time. More than the number usual of the worked the full…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Swedish Copper Mine. Amsterdam, May 7
Advices from Golhenburg state that a German company has bought the King Carl XV. copper mine at Jonkoping (one of the most important industrial town of Sweden)…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bellbird Colliery Idle
The Bellbird Colliery was thrown idle yesterday. It is stated that the stoppage was due to dissatisfaction amongst the wheelers, but the exact nature of the trouble…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Coal Output
The Government has requested the miners to confer on the 16th as to how to increase the coal output in view of the demands of the Allies. The output has decreased by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Killed by Fall of Coal. Mining Fatality. Kurru Kurri
James Munton (35), a single man, who resided at Kurri Kurri, was killed in the Stanford-Merthyr Colliery. Munton, who was a wheeler, was filing a skip when…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Colliery Fatality. (By Telegraph.) Sydney
James Munton, 35, a wheeler, was killed last night at the Stanford-Merthyr colliery…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sanatorium for Miners
At a meeting of the A.M.A., Broken Hill, correspondence was received from the Chief Secretary regarding the erection of a sanatorium, and it was resolved to inform Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Swedish Copper Mine. Amsterdam, May 7
Advices from Gothenburg state that a German company has bought the King Carl XV copper mine at Jonkoping (one of the most important industrial towns of Sweden)…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →German Mine Sweepers. British Submarine's Coup. Copenhagen
The newspaper "Ribe Stifts Tidende" narrates that on the 7th of October eight mine sweepers under the auxiliary cruiser Kaiser anchored in the sound…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Mining Matters. the Southern Award
In the Industrial Court, Mr. Justice Edmunds delivered his reserved judgement in the appeals by the Blacksmith's Society and Amalgamated Society of Engineers from the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →State Gold Yield. Decrease for Four Months
The usual return furnished by the Under-Socretary for. Mines' shows that the gold yield In Now South Wales for April, was 21,023 ounces crude, equal to 14,948…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Colliery Thrown Idle
The Bull Colliery, which employs about 200 men, was idle yesterday. It appears that two miners refused to pay the usual union levy of 1/ to the Miners' Union, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Colliery Dispute Settled
Trouble amongst a soction of the employees of Pelaw-Main coiliery, through which the mine has been idle for over a week was settled yesterday, and the mine…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stanford Colliery Fatality. Inquest at Kurri Kurri
An inquest was held at the Kurri Kurri Courthouse yesterday before the district coroner, Mr. G. Brown, and a jury of six, concerning the death of James Allan Munton,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bulgarian Miners. Sent to Broken Hill Indignation Felt
Considerable excitement was created in Broken Hill on Wednesday by the arrival on twenty-two Bulgarians, under military escort. It was stated that they had been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Blown Up. German Mine-layer. Copenhagen, May 17
A German mine-layer was blown up at Fal[?] by one of her own mines. One of the crew was killed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Coal Embargo
Mr. M. Chariton, M.H.R., stated yesterday in Melbourne, that he had been informed by Mr. Tudor, Minister for Customs, that the embargo upon the export of coal is to be…
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