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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1917

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Work at the Collieries

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 1 January 1917 · page 8

the holidays intervening, the full the northern [?] for the [?] Work was [?] brisk [?]…

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Roumanian Oil Mines. Thorough Destruction. Amsterdam

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 1 January 1917 · page 5

Latest details of the destruction of the Roumanian oil wells are contained in the Munich "Noueste Nachrichten," which says. "The surface damage of [?] does not…

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Burwood Colliery to Belmont

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 3 January 1917 · page 4

The extension of the railway line from Burwood Extended Colliery to Belmont has been opened for traffic, and the times of the running of trains on week-days and Sundays…

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Federal Coal Tribunal

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 4 January 1917 · page 3

The returns for the election of two representatives to act as assessors on the Federal Coal Tribunal, presided over by Mr. Justice Edmunds, were completed at the…

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Mining Mechanics

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 4 January 1917 · page 4

A meeting of members of the Federated Mining Mechanics and Surfacemen's Mutual Protective Association will be held in Fatzens' Hall on Saturday afternoon. at…

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Coal Lumpers on Strike

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 4 January 1917 · page 5

A number of colliers are at another in the harbour waiting to put put gas coal from Newcastle, but no coalies have put in appearance at Mortlake since Monday. It is…

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Mining Matters. Federation Ballot

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 4 January 1917 · page 3

The ballot of the members of the Northern Colliery Employees Federation, to determine whether or not they favour the acceptance of the terms of the order made…

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Britain and Norway. Coal Embargo. Copenhagen

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 4 January 1917 · page 5

Great Britain has prohibited the export of coal to Norway. The British Legation at Christiania states that this is due to the unsatisfactory…

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Miners Dislike Daylight Saving

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 5 January 1917 · page 4

The miners in the Cessnock district do not take kindly to the daylight saving scheme, and an attempt is to be made to in-duce the colliery proprietors to revert to the…

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Baths for Miners in Wales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 5 January 1917 · page 4

An English exchange states:It is announced that the pithead baths scheme man[?] by the Ocean Coal Company at the Treharris pits, in Glamorgan, has proved an…

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Federated Mining Mechanies

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 5 January 1917 · page 4

An aggregate meeting of members of the Federated Mining Mcchanies and Surfacemen's Mutual Protective Association will be held in Fatzens Hall. High-street. West…

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Mining Matters. Federation Ballot

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 5 January 1917 · page 3

Returns have been received by the executive officers of the Northern Colliery Employees' Federation, from 13 lodges, of the ballot taken on Wednesday upon the order…

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Mining Matters. Federal Coal Tribunal

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 6 January 1917 · page 8

The returns for the election of two representatives to act as assessors on the Federal Coal Tribunal, presided over by Mr. Justice Edmunds, were completed at the…

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Colliery Mechanics Dissatisfied

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 6 January 1917 · page 2

The Cessnock branch of the Colliery Mechanies Association has refused to endorse the draft agreement drawn up by conference with the proprietors last week. It is…

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Colliery Mechanics. Agreement with Proprietors

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 6 January 1917 · page 3

Following is a copy of the memorandum of agreement arrived at by representatives of the Northern Colliers Association and the Federated Mining Mechanics and…

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Cessnock District News. Colliery Workers' Grievances

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 6 January 1917 · page 2

Members of the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemen's Association employed at the Maitland Collieries are very dissatisfied with the new rates of wages set out in Judge…

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Mining Matters. Federation Ballot

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 6 January 1917 · page 2

Further returns were received yesterday or the voting of the various lodges of the northern colliery employees upon the acceptance or otherwise of the order by Mr…

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Queensland Coal Commission. (By Telegraph.) Brisbane

Singleton Argus · Saturday 6 January 1917 · page 4

The Queensland Government has appointed a commission to invostigate the price of coal…

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Mining Matters. Colltery Mechanics Conference

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 6 January 1917 · page 10

When seen after the conclusion of the conference between the proprietors and the Colliery Mechanics' Association. Mr. Waller, secretary of the latter body said…

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Colliery Fatality

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 8 January 1917 · page 4

Through a fall of coal at the South [?] Colliery about 9.3O this morning, John Wil-liam, an elderly man, was killed, and his son, Samuel Williams, 33, received serious…

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