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Mining & the mines, 1917

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British Gold Storage Immense Increased Space. a Handicap on Loyalty. (Australian Cable Assn. Message.) London. Tuesday Night

Singleton Argus · Thursday 8 November 1917 · page 3

At the luncheon of the Cold Storage nut Ice Association, Mr Wardle, Director of Cold Storage, said it had been found necessary to increase cold storage…

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Victorian Miners

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 10 November 1917 · page 4

Another batch of 20 miners from Victoria arrived at Pelaw-Main yesterday, to swell the number of mem from the southern Stale engaged in that colliery. About the same…

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State Gold Yield. Increase for October

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 November 1917 · page 8

Mr. R. H. Cambage, the Under-Secretary for Mines, has furnished a return which shows that the gold yield recorded in the State for October was 11.368 ounces crude,…

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Man Power Wins. Coal-handling Plant Beaten

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 November 1917 · page 5

Replying to a question in the Legislative Council, South Australia, regarding the coal-handling plant at Port Price, Mr. Bice, the Minister for Works, gave the following…

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British Mining. Scientific Methods Urged. London

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 November 1917 · page 13

The Press Bareau announces that the Ministry for Munitions is inviting owners of tin and tungsten mines in Cornwall and Devon to establish a research association…

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Northern Colliery Troubles

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 13 November 1917 · page 2

Matters are not going too smoothly at the collieries. Hebburn and Stanford Merthyr men are nearly all back, but at Pelaw-Main much…

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Conditions at the Mines

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 13 November 1917 · page 4

Matters are gradually settling down at the South Maitland collieries, where loyalist workers are engaged, and it has been found possible to further withdraw members of the…

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South Wales Miners. London

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 13 November 1917 · page 5

The comb-out ballot of the South Wales miners was a most remarkable demonstration of working class patriotism. The question asked was the adoption of…

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Recruiting. Miners and Engineers Corps

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 16 November 1917 · page 5

Only one recruit, William Fleming, of Kurri, Kurri, applied for enlistment yesterday, Arthur O'Conner, of Sydney, applied to-day. Both were accepted…

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Coal Miners' Troubles

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 17 November 1917 · page 2

Mr. Baddeley, president of the C.E.F., is reported to have stated recently that the position of the old employees at Muswellbrook coal mine is receiving…

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Work at the Collieries. for Fortnightly Pay

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 19 November 1917 · page 3

Work at the collieries of the South Maitland and Newcastle fields was of an intermittent character during the past fortnight, and only eight mines put in the…

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Patriotic Welsh Miners. London

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 20 November 1917 · page 5

Mr. Clem Edwards has written to the King, pointing out that three-fifths of the South Wales miners, who voted in favour of combing out, are men and youths liable to service,…

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West Australian Mines. Output for the Year

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 21 November 1917 · page 3

In the report of the West Australian Department of Mines for hte year 1916. It is stated that the value of the mineral output for the year was £4,803,417, being…

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Coal and Shale Federation. Application for Cancellation

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 23 November 1917 · page 2

The High Court continued the hearing yesterday of argument in connection with the reference of the President of the Commonwealth Arbitration Court in the application…

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Muswellbrook Mine

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 24 November 1917 · page 2

The Muswellbrook miners' appeal to the Coal Court, held at Newcastle last week, on the matter of alleged victimisation, was struck out owing…

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Patriotic Welsh Miners. London

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 24 November 1917 · page 2

Mr. Clem Edwards has written to the King, pointing out that three-fifths of the South Wales miners, who voted in favour of combing out, are men and youths liable to service…

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Miners and Mateship

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 26 November 1917 · page 4

Mateship is a very real thing in the British Army, and those who have come into touch with our boys in the firing line are full of admiration for their fine self-forgetfulness…

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Colliery Fatality

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 27 November 1917 · page 4

Word, was received this morning at the West Maitland police station that an employee named George Carpenter had been killed in the Pelaw-Main colliery…

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A Coal Pool. Victorian Suggestion

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 27 November 1917 · page 3

Mr. Hagelthorn, late Minister for Agriculture (Vic.) referring to the situation created with regard to coal by the withdrawal of portion of the coastal fleet, said…

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Two Vessels Missing. Both Coal Laden

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 27 November 1917 · page 3

Two smiling vessels, the Aurora—Used by Sir Ernest Shackleton some time ago—and the Peruvian ship Mario, both set out from Nwecastle in June last with cargoes of…

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