South Maitland Coalfield. Whole of the Collieries Idle
The whole of the collieries on the South Maitland coalfield were thrown idle on Tuesday owing to trouble over the wages and working conditions' of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1916
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Colliery Mechanics' Trouble. Questions in the Assembly
In the Legislative Assembly yesterday afternoon. Mr. Levy asked the Acting Premier, in the temporary absence of Mr. Estell, Minister for Mines, if he had received any…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Colliery Mechanics' Dispute Aggregate Meeting. Work to Be Resumed
Members of the Federated Mining Mechanics' Association met at Fatzeous' Skating Rink this afternoon in consider the offer of the proprietors regarding a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Old Gold and Silver War Fund
One of our recent editions continued an appeal by the committee of this fund asking for gold and silver articles of any and every description. Those who read the paragraph…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal-mining Industry. Dangerous Unrest. London
The Miners' Federation executives has unanimously decided to protest against the Board of Trade allowing the South Wales coalowners to increase their prices…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Colliery Mechanics' Trouble. Eight Hours Urged
At the aggregate meeting of the Federated Mining Mechanics' Association yesterday afternoon after our report closes, a resolution was carried providing for the question…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Old Gold & Silver War Fund Fight! Work! Give!!
Can we do enough for those men who are doing all they can for us? —they are giving their lives, for the country. The very least, that…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Miners' Strike
The miners employed at Muswellbrook Coal Mine took a day off on Thursday, apparently in anticipation that a general strike of miners had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →British Collieries. Output Falls. London, Friday morning
The Admiralty has informed the South Wales miners that the coal output in the United Kingdom has fallen 35,000,000 ten since the start of the war, whereas the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Colliery Mechanics' Trouble. Conference at Newcastle
The conference, between representatives of the Collirey Proprietors' Association and the Colliery Mechanics' Association was opened at the colliery proprietors' office,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mine War at Sea. Small Craft Heroes
The work of the small craft in this war is an epic of human bravery—perhaps the most wonderful that the imagination of man can conceive. Twenty months of the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Submarine in Collision Mine Hit on Enemy Coast
In a certain dockyard in England is one of the finest of his Majesty's sulmarines, which with her how twisted and bent as the result of a collision with an enemy mine in…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Quest for Gold. Romance of the Sea
The return to New Zealand of Captain P. V. Catling and his dare-devil companions in the little cutter Enterprise (14 h.p.) marks the closing chapter of one of the greatest…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miser's Gold. Chapter Ii. a Secret and a Charge
For a couple of hours at least the old man, lying on the bed, wandered through the mazes of debrious fantasies. Norman mixed him a cooling draught with lemons and…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Maitland Mines Resume Work in Full Swing. (By Telegraph.) Sydney
This morning nearly all the collieries were working at West Maitland. The remainder of the men will be at their posts to-morrow, and then the mines will…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Gaseous Mines. Statement by Miners' President
The president of the Colliery Employees Federation (Mr. J. M. Baddeley) said yesterday: "Through pressure of time I had not the opportunity to consider a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Colliery Mechanics. Conference at Newcastle. Newcastle
The conference between the representatives of the colliery proprietors and the colliery mechanics was continued this morning at the proprietors' offices. Mr. Jeffries,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal Waggons Derailed
The coal traffic was held up for about three hours last night in consequence of a derailment which occurred at the West Maitland station. An empty coal train was proceeding to the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Colliery Mechanics. Newcastle Conference. Newcastle
To-day was the third day of the Colliery Mechanics' conference When Mr. Waller was seen after the luncheon adjournment, he said that they had done…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Edna May Central. Mine Manager to Resign
The direction of the Edna May Central told mines held a meeting in Melbourne to consider the course to be adopted with regard to the error made in despatching the…
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