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Mining & the mines, 1922

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Coal Control. EFFECt Upon Industry

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 3 June 1922 · page 3

When the question as to Commonwealth control of coal was keeping the price of the commodity up was referred to Sir Thomas Henley,…

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Miners' Wages. Owners' Proposals Rejected. Employees' Reply

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 3 June 1922 · page 8

The conference between the coal proprietors and the representatives of the miners, concerning the claims of the former, was continued in…

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Goal Mine Explosion. Seventeen Killed. London, June 2

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 3 June 1922 · page 5

Reuter's Berlin correspondent reports that seventeen were killed and twenty-five others inured in an explosion in an coal mine belonging to Krupps, near…

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A Gold Rush. Discovery in Rabbit Burrow

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 3 June 1922 · page 16

A tributary of what is known as Kennody's Gully (Vic.), about four miles South-east of Napoloon's, has been pogged out for some distance…

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New Gold Find. Sensational Reports Not Warranted

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 3 June 1922 · page 13

The Minister for Mines (Mr. FitzPatrick) has received the report of Mr. J. R. Godfrey, of the goological survey, who was sent to Canbelego…

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Coal Industry. Question of Reduced Wages. Conference Adjourns

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 3 June 1922 · page 9

The conference between the representatives of the coal owners and the miners, which was commenced on April 26, was resumed at the rooms of the…

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Gold at Bribbaree. About 32 Miles From Young

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 3 June 1922 · page 7

A report has been received by Mr. J. C. L. Fitzpatrick, Minister for Mines, from Mining Warden Williams, of Goulburn, respecting the…

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Visit to Colliery

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 5 June 1922 · page 4

Through the courtosy of the management, the Botany Harriers, who are in Maitland for the annual challenge with the local Amateur Athletic Club,…

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Miners' Wages. Conference Fixed for

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 5 June 1922 · page 6

The Chairman of the Coal Industry Special Tribunal announced on Saturday that there had been filed with him under the provisions of the…

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Brown Coal. Large Formations in South Australia

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 5 June 1922 · page 8

A syndicate of capitalists, in conjunction with the Wallaroo and Moonta Mining and Smelting Company, is engaged in proving the…

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Wool and Coal

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 6 June 1922 · page 2

A grave industrial crisis is developing in two different directions. The first is respecting the rates to be paid for shearing. The shearers'…

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Tho Coal Question

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 6 June 1922 · page 2

Coal is more directly a matter of public interest than shearing rates, though everybody is concerned in insisting on due respect for the…

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Coal Industry. Over-production in Queensland

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 6 June 1922 · page 3

Mr. Jones, Minister for Mines in Queensland, was waited upon recently a deputation, which placed before [?]proposals whose adoption was…

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Colliery Worker for 77 Years

Singleton Argus · Thursday 8 June 1922 · page 2

Mr Edward Davies, a South Maitland coalfield pioneer, has died, at the age of 86. He became a colliery employee at. Dudley (England) at the age of seven…

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Mining Conference. Masters and Men Meet. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 8 June 1922 · page 5

The colliery proprietors and miners attended a compulsory conference, which was opened in Sydney to-day with a view to the settlement of their…

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Neath and Cessnock Collieries

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 9 June 1922 · page 4

The stoppage of work at Neath and Cessnock collieries was discussed by the Coal Tribunal on Thursday afternoon, when it was decided by…

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British Coal Miners. Big Strike Aftermath. London, June 8

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 9 June 1922 · page 5

The executive of the Miners' Federation to-day discussed at London the serious situation of coalfields. The secretary, Mr. Hodges, stated that every…

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Central Greta Colliery

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 9 June 1922 · page 4

Central Greta Colliery has been idle this week owing to a dispute arising out of the manager giving a pair of miners 14 days' notice. It is…

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Ashtonfield Miners' Lodge

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 9 June 1922 · page 4

A meeting of the Ashtonfield Miners' Lodge will be, held on the East Maitland reserve on Sunday, 11th instant, at 10.30 a.m. The business is…

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Coal Industry. Dispute Referred to Coal Tribunal

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 9 June 1922 · page 2

The compulsory conference called by the chairman of the Coal Industry Special Tribunal in connection with the claims of the Australian coal…

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