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Mining & the mines, 1922

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LOCAL & General News Ayrfield Miners' Lodge

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 14 October 1922 · page 4

A meeting of members of Ayrfield Miners' Lodge will be held at Telarah at the big tree, at 10 o'clock, to-morrow (Sunday) morning…

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Laurentic's Gold. Long-kept Secret

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 14 October 1922 · page 11

Secrecy continues to enshround the salving of the Laurentic's treasure-millions it has been stated that £1,000,000 has been salved this year, but…

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Coal Industry. Safety Lamp Question. Conference Fails

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 14 October 1922 · page 14

The conference called by Mr. Fitzpartrick, the Minister for Mines, to consider the vexed question of safety lamps in coal mines, was held at the…

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State Gold Yield. Big Decrease for Nine Months

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 14 October 1922 · page 8

Mr. R. H. Cambage, Under-Secretary for Mines, has furnished a return showing that the gold yield in Now South Wales for the month of…

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Mining Position. Restored to Normal. Southern Men Agree to Resume

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 14 October 1922 · page 5

When the Coal Tribunal resumed its sittings at the Commonwealth Bank on Wednesday afternoon, the Chairman announced that the…

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The Collieries. Work for Fortnightly Pay

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 16 October 1922 · page 7

Work at the collieries of the Newcastle and South Maitland districts showed considerable improvements during the fortnight ended on Saturday…

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Collieries Idle. Aberdare and Aderdare Central. Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 17 October 1922 · page 5

Notwithstanding the promise to the Coal Tribunal yesterday that the man at Aberdare Colleries would return to work this morning, Aberdara and…

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Miners' Council. Important Discussions

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 17 October 1922 · page 6

A number of important matters were discussed at the meeting in Sydney of the Workers' Industrial Union of Australia. Mining…

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Correspondence Miners' Earnings. (To the Editor.)

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 17 October 1922 · page 3

Sir,__ln your issue of the "Argus" of the 10th inst. I notice a paragraph headed "A Minor's Pay." A miner who was a witness, in a case at…

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Coal at Dartmouth First Truckload Sold

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 17 October 1922 · page 2

The first sale of coal from a mine at Dartmouth was made yesterday, when a truckload, consisting of 10 tons of coal, was purchased by the…

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Suspected Foul Play Discovery in a Mine

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 17 October 1922 · page 4

Suspecting foul play, the police authorities at Adelaide have sent Detective Dedman to Yudnamutana to inquire into the death of Andrew…

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Ayrfield Colliery Dispute

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 18 October 1922 · page 4

A conference was held at Ayrfield Colliery on Tuesday, with regard to the stoppage at that mine, arising out of a dispute between the…

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Price of Coal. Question in Assembly

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 18 October 1922 · page 8

In the Legislative Assembly, Mr. W. J. Skelton asked the Premier if it was a fact that coal contracts recently entered into by the Railway…

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Coal Industry. Position Again Critical. Cancellation of Awards Sought

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 18 October 1922 · page 5

An application was made to the Coal Tribunal on behalf of the Northern Coal proprietors for the cancellation immediately of existing…

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Piece of Everest for the Pontiff. Gold Medal for Gen. Druce, From "Alpinist Pope."

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 18 October 1922 · page 5

The members of the Mount Everest expedition (says a Reuter's Rome message to the London "Daily Chronicle") have sent the Pope a…

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Coal Industry. Cancellation of Awards. Formal Application to Tribunal

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 19 October 1922 · page 2

The northern coal proprietors formally applied to the chairman of the Coal Tribunal (Mr. C. Hibble) for the [?] cancellation of the whole of…

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Idle Collieries

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 20 October 1922 · page 4

Pelaw-Main Colliery has been idle since Monday, the wheelers contending that preference should have been given to them when new men…

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South Greta Colliery

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 20 October 1922 · page 4

South Greta Colliery has been idle all the week. On Monday there were insufficient trucks out on Tuesday a dispute arose. The men…

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Kalingo Colliery Dispute

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 20 October 1922 · page 4

A conference was held at [?] Colliery concerning trouble arising out of the dismissal of a bricklayer's labourer. Mr. C. Jones,…

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Paxton a New COlliery Township

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 20 October 1922 · page 4

The first sub-division sale of the new colliery township of paxton, Ellalong, the terminus of the South Maitland railway, will be held by…

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