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Illawarra · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1911

239 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 2 of 12

Miners' Homes

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 10 February 1911 · page 4

The State Cabinet has had consideration the question of resuming surface areas of coal mines for miners' homes. Speaking of the Clifton…

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Mines Sanitation

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 10 February 1911 · page 7

Mr. F. Dunleavy has the following letter in the "Herald:":—"Now, that so much prominence has been given to the outbreak of typhoid fever on…

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Illawarra Miners Trouble at Mt. Pleasant

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 10 February 1911 · page 13

It is stated to be the intention of the Coalcliff management to prosecute in the case of wheelers who have stopped work. The general secretary…

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Farming and Mining Inventions

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 10 February 1911 · page 8

Messrs. Griffith and Hassel, patent attorneys, of 103 King-street, Sydney, and 9 Queen-street, Melbourne, report that the following applications for…

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Abolition of Night Work in Mines (To the Editor.)

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 10 February 1911 · page 7

Sir,—At the Labor Conference last week, on the motion of Mr. F. Dunleavy, president of the Illawarra Colliery Employees' Association, a…

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Trouble at Mount Pleasant. Powder Found in a Boat. Two Men Suspended. Miners Refuse to Start

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 10 February 1911 · page 4

On the buck shift of the Mt. Pleasant colliery presenting themselves for work yesterday morning it was found that the management had issued…

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No Exportable Coal. South of Mount Kembla

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Saturday 11 February 1911 · page 2

Given evidence on the Bomaderry. Jervis Bay railway scheme, before the Public Works Committee in Sydney on Thursday, Mr. L. F. Harper, Geological surveyor,…

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Federated Coal and Shale Workers' Association

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 14 February 1911 · page 3

A meeting of the above named association was held in the Trades Hall, Sydney, on Friday, the 10th instant, when the following officers and district…

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The Mining Trouble at Mt. Pleasant. (To the Editor)

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 14 February 1911 · page 2

Sir,—I see in your issue of Friday last where Mr. T. Cook, manager of Mt. Pleasant colliery, made certain statements concerning the mining…

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Illawarra Miners

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 17 February 1911 · page 13

A delegate meeting of the Illawarra Colliery Employees' Association was held at Tattersall's Hotel on Thursday. Present: Messrs. F. Dunleavy…

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Colliery Screenings. Hulton Disaster

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 17 February 1911 · page 6

A statement prepared by the Lancashire and, Cheshire Permanent Relief Society gives the number of deaths through the disaster at…

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Federated Coal & Shale Workers Association

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 17 February 1911 · page 10

A meeting of the above association was held in the Trades' Hall, Sydney, on Friday, the 10th inst., when the following officers and district…

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Coal and Shale Workers

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 21 February 1911 · page 3

Mr. D. Rees, acting president of the Coal and Shale Workers' Association, Newcastle, and Mr. A. Byrnes, visited Wollongong on Thursday, and were…

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Farming and Mining Inventions

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 21 February 1911 · page 4

Messrs. Griffith and Hassel, patent attorneys, of 163 King-street, Sydney, and 9 Queen-street, Melbourne, report that the following applications for…

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Colliery Screenings. Scottish Miners' Federation

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 24 February 1911 · page 5

The annual conference was held in Ayr, in December. The president, Mr. R. Smillie, in his opening address, said:—…

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Tasmanian Coal Mine. Offer to South Australia

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 24 February 1911 · page 2

Mr. W. H. Hussey, who recently verbally offered to the South Australian Premier a coal mine in Tasmania, to be acquired and worked by the South…

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Tasmanian Coal Mine Offer to South Australia

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 24 February 1911 · page 13

Mr. W. H. Hussey, who on Monday verbally offered to the South Australian Premier a coal mine in Tasmania, to be acquired and worked by…

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Illawarra Miners

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 24 February 1911 · page 12

The wheelers of South Bulli have given in notices to cease work, some of which expire to-morrow and some on Monday. At the last pay some…

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Mining. Objections to Immigrants

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 24 February 1911 · page 2

At a special meeting of the Aberdare lodge of the Colliery Employees' Federation the following resolutions were unanimously adopted and forwarded…

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Illawarra Miners

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 28 February 1911 · page 2

For the year ending 1910 the mines on the South Coast constituted the heaviest charge upon the Miners' Accident Belief Fund, being 52 per cent…

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