Illawarra Miners
Metropolitan Lodge met on Friday last. The minutes of the delegate meeting were adopted. A long discussion ensued over three headings in…
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Mining & the mines, 1909
186 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 2 of 10
Illawarra Miners
The Conciliation Board met during the week in Sydney to consider and deal with a number of claims on the part of the miners and wheelers. A…
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A recent return shows that the average annual quantity of coal consumed in Victoria during the ten years 1897-1908 was 885,570 tons,…
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Large numbers of women are employed at the pit top on the Scottish coalfields. The Lothian Miners' Association has decided to agitate…
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The Board of Conciliation met in Sydney on Wednesday. A claim from Mt. Pleasant mine for re-setting props was allowed to remain in…
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The opinions of the State geologists respecting the extent of the coal deposits at the Powlett Basin, Gippsland, are of such importance to Victoria…
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Further trouble is threatened at the South Greta colliery. The men have just completed the six weeks' test, provided for in the recent settlement,…
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Repeated efforts have been made to discover coal in or about Grisborne (N.Z.), but these were fruitless until, about the middle of January, a…
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On Wednesday the Corrimal-Balgownie output, filling 112 waggons, averaging about 8 tons each, was the largest for some time. The mine had…
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Speaking at the banquet to the late miners' general secretary on Saturday night, Mr Druey, district president, said Illawarra, for the past…
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With regard to the complaints received from Great Britain as to the alleged shortage in weight of Newcastle coal cargoes, the "Newcastle…
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In a chat with the manager of the Hetton Colliery, on coal matters, Mr. Alex. Mathieson related how he witnessed the extraordinary process…
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Mr. R. Pyers, of Casino, has for some time past been interesting himself in the sinking of a trial bore for coal in Casino. He has been in communication…
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The miners' general secretary (Mr. A. Gray) forwarded yesterday £123 to the Broken Hill lockout fund. This amount was the result of 1¼ per…
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Arrangements have been made by the authorities of the Colonial Bank of Australia, who hold the Coal Creek Company's property at…
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The miners of Rix's Creek Colliery are again in conflict with their employers, the trouble on this occasion being that, as members of the…
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The Board of Conciliation met at Bellambi Hotel on Wednesday last, when the Board ordered a wheeler's claim for increase of wages from South…
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After boring for ten months, Mr. Tom. Coventry, acting on behalf of Capt. Philip Charley, has succeeded in discovering a coal deposit of great…
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A meeting of the Conciliation,. Board was held in the Bellambi Hotel on Wednesday. Wheelers' claims from South Clifton; rates to…
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Compared with the trade of the opening months of last year, business in Newcastle coal during the last two months has been depressed. And…
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