Coal Federation. Cost of Considered
During the past week the council of the Australasian Coal and Shale Employees Federation has been in conference in Sydney. Consideration has been given to a number…
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Mining & the mines, 1919
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Bursaries for Mining Students
By means of a rund of £5400 subscribed by a number of large mining companies, bursaries and scholarships are being offered to mining and metallurgical students at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →H. C. L. Miners' Demand. London, October 23
At the Miners' conference Mr. Barker a prominent South wales delegate. urged that the Trade Union Congress should send an ultimatum to the Government threatening a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hidden Notes and Gold. Nurse's Fire Loss
While Nurse Cleland's weatherboard cottage, in Glover-street. Mosman, was ablaze late on Monday night, one of the occupants informed the firemen that £110 was hidden…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Big Coal Strike. America's Turn. Vancouver October 31
The coal strike involving half a million miners, has started. A later message states that it is announced that troop are on the move in connection…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Work at the Collieries
Work generally at the collieries of the Smith Maitland and Newcastle coal fields was moderately good for the fortnight ended on Saturday last. Following are the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Electric Power. Direct Production. Plant at a Mine-mouth
For year's engineers with large vision have dreamed about the electrical transmission of power from cheap coal burned at the very mine itself; but with no practical result…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Big Coal Strike. U.S.A. Troubles. Vancouver
The strike of 500,000 bituminous coal minors in the United States has started. It was announced this afternoon that troops are moving in connection with the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fortunes Hidden in Coal
Getting all the wealth there is in coal by low temperature distillation has hovered for years like an elusive will-o-the-wisp before the vision of innumerable engineers. Again and again…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Exports Embargo. Wharfies Support Miners
The Waterside, Workers' Federation Ims carried the following motion in connection with the unionist scheme for the hold-up of exports:—…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Straw Gas to Supersede Coal
A Canadian farmer has invented a means of converting straw into gas, thus producing a good coal substitute. The process is cheap. It might easily be taken up by British farmers. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →British Progress Scientific, Technical and Industrial Fortunes Hidden in Coal
Getting all the wealth there is in coal by low-temperature distillation, has hovered for years like an elusive will-O'-thewisp before the vision of innumerable…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal Shortage in France. Position Growing Serious. (Australian Cable Assn. Message.) Paris, Sunday Night
Owing to the coal shortage there will be a [?]sion of electrical power in Paris for three days. A diminution of the broad supply and tramway service is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Colliery Mechanics' Association
Sir,—In reply to Mr. Waller's StAtements of the 30th ultimo, I may state that I, do not know, nor do I care, what he might wish to say in future. I have no reason, nor…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Coal Land at Lithgow. Leases Applied For
G. and C. Hoskins Ltd., have applied for leases of about 3000 acres of coal land in Lithgow. The ground was originally part of an area reserved for a State coal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal for New Zealand. Export Question
Mr. Holman, the Premier, has received a cable message in the following terms from Mr. Massey, Prime Minister of New Zealand:—…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Big Coal Strike. Affects British Trade. London, November 4
The American coal strike is badly affecting British experts. A substantial pool of re-exports is held up and all outgoing cargoes are restricted to essentials…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →German Train Service Food and Coal Take Precedence. (Australian Cable Assn. Message.) Berlin, Tuesday Night
All passenger train service has been suspended throughout Germany for a fortnight to facilitate the goods traffic, especially in coal and potatoes…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Colliery Mechanies' Claims
No settlement was effected at the conference in Sydney between the representatives of the mechanies and the employers. The conference will be continued on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mining Accident
It was reported yesterday that a fall of ground had occurred in the Ednn May Consolidated gold mine, which is situated at Westonia, Western Australia, and, as a…
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