Colliery Engine Drivers. Drawing Up New Log
The engine driver and firemen are to meet at Cessnock on Saturday to draw up a new log of wages and working conditions…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1927
1,322 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 52 of 67
Coal Industry Trouble Foreshadowed
The Minors' Delegate Eoard, at its sitting in Newcastle on Wodnesday, gave lengthy consideration- to the questions of intermittency of employment…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miner Fined. Took Matches Into Colliery Cessnock
John Halliday, an employee of Abermain No. 2 Colliery, was fined £1, plus £2/10/ costs, at the Police Court to-day, for taking matches into…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Coal Export. Shipments From Newcastle
The quantity of coal shipped at Newcastle during the week for places beyond the State was 60,250 tons. of which 40,380 tons represented…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Coal Export Shipments From Newcastle
The quantity of coal shipped at Newcastle last week for places beyond the State was 38,421 tons, of which 71,685 represented…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Miner Killed. Fall of Coal at Mount Pleasant
David Duncomb, one of the most prominent members of the Miners' Federation in the wollongong district, was killed by a fall of roof in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal and Oil Shale. Question of Utilisation. Mr. Baddeley's Recommendations
A mass of information is given in the report of Mr. J. M. Baddeley, Minister for Mines, regarding the utilisation of coal and oil shale in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →U.S.A. Coal Strike. Settlement in Illinois. Chicago, Oct. 3
The coal operators and miners both believe that the coal strike settlement, which was effected throughout illinois is likely to influence…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Mines. Delegate Board Meeting. Modernising Internal Working
The Miners' Delegate Board resumed its deliberations at the Newcastle Trades Hall yesterday. All the lodges were represented. Mr. T…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →South Greta Miners
A meeting of the South Greta Miners' Lodge will be held this evening at 6.30 o'clock. All members are specially requested to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →How Coal Values Have Increased
Although the number of tons of coal exported from Newcastle for the nine months ended September 30 was 58,069 tons less than the total…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Extraction of Coal Alleged Wasteful Method
Allegations of neglect in the extraction of coal at Stanford Merthyr Colliery were made by a deputation of miners to Mr Baddeley on Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Testing for Coal Bore to Be Sunk at Bunnerong
The electricity committee of the Sydney City Council has given the general manager of the electricity department (Mr. Mackay) permission to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gold Passes Returned
Mr C. Murphy is the first of the defeated members of Parliament to return the gold pass issued to him when he was elected to the Legislative Assembly…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners Healthy Men. Lodge Decision Resented at Cessnock
Some resentment has been caused at Cessnock by the refusal of the grand executive of the Protestant Alliance Friendly Society to grant…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Man's Remarkable Escape Buried by Fall of Coal
Joseph Druery, aged 51, of Dartbrook Road, Auburn, was lucky to escape with his life from a pit in the Balmain Coiliary on Monday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →British Miners. Wage Reduction Suggested Talk of Another Strike. London. October 12
Close on the heels of a suggestion from a section of the COR[?]owners that there should be a reduction of miners' minimum percentages and subsistance…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BARKSBY v. East Greta Coal Mining Company
Stanley Barksby made an application for compensation against the East Greta Coal Mining Co Claimant, said was injured on 25th August and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Work at the Collieries
Ten days constituted [?] time [?] colliers in the [?] district for the fortnight during which trade was unusually slack. One or two of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bellbird Colliery Employee's Death
The death occurred on Tuesday night, in the Cessnock District Hospital, of William ("Snowy") Clements, 22, top-hand employed at…
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