Local and General News. Enlistment of Miners
A military order issued on Saturday provides that youths eighteen years and their months old who have enlisted with their parents' consent may be taken into camp, but…
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Mining & the mines, 1918
498 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 16 of 25
Brown Coal Workers. Trouble in Victoria
Mr. Barnes, Victorian Minister for Mines, has been advised that 120 man employed in the brown coal mine at Morwell have ceased work. The Minister assumes that they had decided to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Housing of Miners. Board of Trade Inquiry. Cessnock
The Board of Trade sat at the Cessnock Courthouse this morning to inquire into the questions of housing of miners, sanitation of mines, bathing facilities for employees, etc…
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Exemption has just been granted to a man named Beardsley, aged 25, who is the owner, manager, and only employee of a coal mine near Matlock. He…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Housing of Miners. Board of Trade Enquiry
In making its enquiry as to the actual facts of the miners' housing conditions, the Board will set itself to ascertain:— 1. What is the predominant style of a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Purchase Board. to Keep the Coalmines Going
It was sated on Thursday by Mr.Poynton Acting Minister for the Navy, that the object of the Coal Purchase Board now being [?]stituted way to a large extent to keep the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Mining of the Wimmera How Survivors Escaped. Fight for Life in Stormy Sea
Extended details of the sinking of the steamer Wimmera by a mine on the voyage from Auckland to Sydney on Wednesday morning, June 26…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gold for Gold
The Victorian Chamber of Mines has cabled to Mr. Hughes suggesting that gold mining companies working at a loss should be subsidised up to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Housing of Miners. Board of Trade Inquiry. Cessnock
The Board of Trade sat at the Cessnock Courthouse this morning to inquire into the questions of housing of miners, sanitation of mines, bathing facilities for employees, etc…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Work at the Collieries for Fortnightly Pay
The coal trade was fairly brisk in the early part of the fortnight, but slackened off towards the later part. Full time was worked at 13 collieries, Lymington was Idle…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners' Demands, London
The Miners Federation have passed a resolution demanding a six-hours day after the war, and six days' puy for a five-day week…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners' Accident Relief. Claims Dealt With
A report prepared by Mr. J. Blanksby, the officer in charge, states that during the currency of the Miners's Accident Relief Fund—a period of 16½ years—there were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →News by Wire. Tin Mining. Sydney
Warden James reports that the tin mining industry at Ardlethan is in full swing owing to the high price of tin and the consistency of the yield in some of the best…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →South Greta Miners
A largely attended meeting of the South Greta miners was held at the Sportsman's Arms Hotel. Mr. J. M. Baddeley, district president, and Mr. W. Brennap, general…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal Federation. Meeting of Executive
The executive of the Australasian Coal and Shale Federation met at the federation's offices, Sydney, yesterday. Consideration of a number of matters had not concluded when…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Abermain Colliery. Dispute Concerning Top Coal
A deputation from the Australasian Coal and Shale Federation, headed by Mr. J. M. Baddeley, president, waited upon Mr. Chapman, managing director of the Abermain…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Federations Attitude
At a meeting of the executive of the Australasian Coal and Shale Federation at Sydney the I.W.W. cases were discussed, and the following resolution carried: "In view of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Baths for Miners. Appreciated Innovation
The bathing facilities for the miners employed at Coledale colliery have been completed. A room 60ft by 16ft, near the month of the pit, has been constructed. It is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Coal Tribunal. Restoration Deferred
The meeting of the executive of the Australasian Coal and Shale Federation, which began in Sydney the previous day, was continued at the federations's offices yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mining Boom in New England. Monoply Resented
Mining is still booming in the NewEngland district, and applications for permission to enter land for tin and molybdenite are being made to the…
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