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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1916

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Work at the Collieries. for Fortnightly Pay

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 19 June 1916 · page 3

Operation at the Newcastle and Maitland districts colliers were fairly brisk during the pay ending on Saturday last, and Fourteen of them got in the full ten days, one being lost…

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Miners' Working Hours. Conference in Melbourne

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 19 June 1916 · page 3

A conference of coal properties throughout Australia, and the Australia coal and Shale Employees Federation, took place before Mr. Justice Higgins on Saturday,…

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Important Mining Case Alleged Breach of Special Rules. at South Greta Colliery

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 20 June 1916 · page 3

Arthur Blanche was charged at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday afternoon, before Mr. W. J. N. Fincham, P.M., with that being an employee of the South Greta…

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Colliery Fatality

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 23 June 1916 · page 4

A fatality occurred at the East Greta Colliery this afternoon, a man named William O'Brien being suffocated, Deceased, who was working on what is Known as the duff-heap…

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Coal Mining Fatality. Kurri Kurri

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 24 June 1916 · page 8

David John Roach, a miner, was killed by a fall of roof stone in Hebburn Colliery last evening. Deceased, who resided at Weston, leaves a widow and four children…

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Important Mining Case Alleged Breach of Special Rules. at South Greta Colliery

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 24 June 1916 · page 10

Arthur Blanche was charged at the West Maitland Police Court on Monday afternoon, before Mr. W. J. N. Fincham, P.M., with that being an employee of the South Greta…

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Mining Activity

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 24 June 1916 · page 5

General Sir Dougins Haig reports:—The enemy exploded an exceptionally large mine at Givenchy, just north of La Basso Canal, on Thursday morning, during which the…

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Miners' Working Hours. Conference in Melbourne

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 24 June 1916 · page 13

A conference of coal proprietors throughout Australia, and the Australian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation, took place before Mr. Justice Higgins' on Saturday,…

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Coal lumpers' Battalion

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 27 June 1916 · page 4

An agreement has been signed by Mr. Jensen, Minister for the Navy, and the Sydney Coal Lumpers' Union, providing for a Coal Lumpers' Battalion for the…

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Russian Steamer Strikes a Mine. Four Hundred Victims

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 27 June 1916 · page 2

Petrograd, Saturday—The Russian steamer Mercury (4046 tons), with 800 passengers on board, struck a mine near Odessa and sank in five minutes. The…

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Hebburn Colliery Fatality. Inquest at Weston

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 29 June 1916 · page 7

An inquest was held at the Criterion Hotel Weston yesterday, before the District Coroner (Mr. G. Brown) and a jury of six concerning the death of David John Reach,…

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Colliery Officials' Award. Appeal by Proprietors

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 29 June 1916 · page 3

Application was made on behalf of the Northern Colliery proprietors to Mr. Justice Edmunds, in No. 3 Industrial Court, for leave to apply for the variation or…

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Cobar Mines. a Reference in Court

Singleton Argus · Thursday 29 June 1916 · page 1

In the Arbitration Court at Melbourne on Monday, before Mr Justice Powers, parties to the plaint by the Federated Mine Employees' Association against…

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The Strike Clause and the Coal Trade

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 29 June 1916 · page 4

Happily, no serious strikes have occurred in the colliery industry in New South Wales during the war, but those that have occurred, and threats of others bring about a…

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Mining Case. Alleged Breach of Award

Singleton Argus · Thursday 29 June 1916 · page 1

Mr Justice Powers gave judgment in the Arbitration Court at Melbourne on Monday on the plaint by the Federated Mining Employces' Association of…

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Breakdown at Hebburn Colliery

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 30 June 1916 · page 5

Owing to the breakdown of an engine shaft at Hobburn Colliery last night, the old tunnel has been thrown idle, and it is considered there is no likelihood of repairs being…

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Colliery Mechanics. Pay of Ballast Guards

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 July 1916 · page 14

The Coal Mining Group (North) No. 2 (Colliery Mechanics) Wages Board sat again at the Newcastle Courthouse on Saturday. the board comprises Messrs. W. Halse…

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Mining Activity

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 July 1916 · page 12

General Sir Douglas Haig reports:—The enemy exploded an exceptionally large mine at Givenchy, just north of La Basse Canal, on Thursday morning, during which the…

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Mining Matters. Arranging of Conferences

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 1 July 1916 · page 11

At the request of Mr. Justice Higgins at the recent compulsory conference in Melbourne, between the representatives of the cothery proprictors and the Australasian Coal and…

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Colliery Federation. General Organisation

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 3 July 1916 · page 2

Mr. J. M. [?]ddeley, president of Northern Colliery Employees' [?] proceeded to Muswellbrook [?] upon an [?]…

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