The Mines Work for Fortnight NEWCASTLE
Six collieries on the Northern Coalfields worked full time during the fortnight. Details furnished by the shipping agents in Newcastle, are as…
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Mining & the mines, 1937
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Three Aberdare Mines are Idle Combined Meeting of Men Decides Cessnock
The three Aberdare collieries, Aberdare Control, Aberdare Extended, and Aberdare Shaft remained Idle to-day due to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Arrested by Dutch Warship Steamer with Spanish Gold and Goods (Australian Press Assn. Message.) LONDON
The steamer Thorpe Hall, at present under Basque charter, and carrying 130 cases of gold, shares, bombs and jewellery, estimated worth £150,000, and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dispute Over Electric Coal Cutter at Central. Miners of the Three Aberdare Pits Refuse to Resume Work. Until Elliott Safety Device Is Installed
Following the disaster at Stoke On Trent, where the same conditions operate as at Aberdare Central Colliery, it does not appear reasonable to ask the men employed at Aberdare Central to resume work with the coal-cutting…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mines Will Stop If Claims Are Refused Able to Fight Meetings on the Coalfields Working Conditions
More men attended the aggregate meetings held to-day throughout the coalfields, when lodges were asked to endorse the recently prepared log of claims, than at any time since the lock-out of 1929. In order to ensure a full representation…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Miners' New Log of 'Claims Aggregate Meetings Endorse Action of Federation Leaders. Authority Given for General Cessation of Work If Necessary
At the aggregate meetings held to-day in the Cessnock area there were unanimous votes given to the proposals by the executive officials of the Miners' Federation for their submission of a new log of claims to the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Collieries Idle on Northern Fields 1500 Men Cease Work
Three of the largest coalmines on the northern coalfields, Aberdare, Aberdare. Extended, and Aberdare Central, employing altogether 1500 men, ceased…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners' Claims Branxton, Meeting BRANXTON
A fairly representative aggregate meeting of the members of Rothbury, New Greta and Whitburn, collieries was held here last night. Mr. W. T…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Struck by Skips Mine Manager Killed NEWCASTLE
Richard William Marks. 72, manager of North Wallarah Colliery, where the first New South Wales stay-in strike occurred early this years, died…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Aggregate Meeting of Miners' Federation May Order Strike If Necessary
Overwhelming and, in most cases, unanimous votes at stop-work meetings on the Newcastle and South Maitland coalfields yesterday gave power to the Direction and Negotiation Committee of the Miners'…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Oil From Coal Sir D. Rivett's Comment MELBOURNE
The case for immediate action in the production of oil from coal by hydrogenation in Australia is decidedly weak, considered from the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →May Import Coal N.Z. Output Falls Wellington (N.z.)
The Minister for Mines, Mr. Webb who before his election to Parliament was President of the Miners' Federation, to-day issued a warning to coal…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mr. Richard Marks Colliery Accident Fatal. Well-known Mine Manager
Mr. Richard William Marks, Manager of North Wallarah colliery, died in the General Hospital on Tuesday, night following an injury in the mine…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners' Broadcasts
Representatives of miners' lodges throughout the Coalfields and delegates from branches of the Unemployed and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Mines
Load, zinc and silver are the basic wealth of the locality. We went down one shaft, a speedy trip in a cage, to the 2000 feet level. Climbed up a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Miners' Log of Claims
Southern and Western miners, at aggregate meetings on Wednesday, adopted the resolution endorsed the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Life of the Mines
As a result of scientific investigation, the ore lode has been proved to guarantee a life of 50 years at the least, and further prospecting will…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Muswellbrook Miners. Support New Log
At a meeting of members of the Muswellbrook Miners Lodge held on Wednesday last it was resolved to support the new log of claims for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gold Snap Southern Tablelands Heavy Frosts
A cold snap was experienced on the southern tablelands lost night. Canberra, Cooma, and Charlotte Pass reported temperatres 14…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Stove Explodes Gelignite in Coal Christchurch (N.z;)
Two people Were injured and a kitchen was wrecked when an explosion occurred at the home of Mrs. Hatch, Revell-street. Hokitika…
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