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Illawarra · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1911

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Coal Dust Explosions. an Expert's Advice. Keep the Roads Clean

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 7 April 1911 · page 7

Sir Henry Hall, who is an expert in regard to the causes of colliery explosions, recently read a paper, before a Lancashire society, on the subject of…

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A Mining Case

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 11 April 1911 · page 2

About eight months ago tho Mount Kembla Coal and Oil Company, Ltd., made application to the Mines Department for a lease under the Mining…

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Southern Conciliation Board. Practically Disbanded. Miners' President's Remark Resented. Meeting Abruptly Terminates

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 11 April 1911 · page 2

At Bellambi on Friday the Southern Collieries' Conciliation Board, which during the four years of its existence performed excellent work in settling all…

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Kembla Miners Prosecuted

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 14 April 1911 · page 12

The adjourned hearing of the prosecution of Albert Stafford by William Rogers, manager of the Mount Kembla mine, for absenting himself…

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Coal and Shale Workers' Federation (To the Editor.)

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 14 April 1911 · page 18

Sir,—In your last issue appeared a letter on the above question over the name of Andrew Gray. First he tells us the well-known fact that a…

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Colliery Screenings. Firedamp in Mines. Chief-inspector's Warning

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 21 April 1911 · page 14

In his general remarks on the working of the coalmines of the State during 1910, Mr. A. A. Atkinson refers to the finding of fire-damp in a…

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Illawarra Miners

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 21 April 1911 · page 11

The executive officials of the Association Have sought the intervention of Mr. Beeby and of Mr. Holman in the matter of the dispute at Balmain…

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Very Gold

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 21 April 1911 · page 6

An American and a Scotchman were discussing the cold experienced in winter in the North of Scotland. "Why it's nothing at all compared to…

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Mt. Kembla Miners' Prosecution

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 21 April 1911 · page 11

The charges against a number of Mt. Kembla miners of absenting themselves in contravention of special rule 103 were continued in the…

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Absent from Work. Mount Kembla Colliery Cases

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 21 April 1911 · page 4

At the Police Court yesterday, before Mr. J. Jameson, exchange magistrate, David Smith, coal miner ot Mount Kembla mine, was proceeded…

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Illawarra Miners

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 25 April 1911 · page 3

Numbers of complaints are awaiting settlement in the various collieries, which would in the ordinary course have been dealt with by the Board of…

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Sassafras-Cly[?]e Coal Field

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 25 April 1911 · page 3

Extensive coal measures are known to exist at the head of the Clyde River, at Sassairas, within easy dist[?] of Jervis Bay, the finest…

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Farming and Mining Inventions

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 25 April 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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Mount Kembla Miners. Leaving Their Working Places

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 25 April 1911 · page 2

The adjourned case against David Smith for absenting himself from his working place in Mount Kembla daring the prescribed working hours…

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Colliery [?] Western [?]

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 28 April 1911 · page 7

The Premier [?] been restarted. An agreement [?]viding for a th[?]…

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Illawarra Miners

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 28 April 1911 · page 9

The trouble at North Bulli mine last week-end—some miners coming out of the mine complaining about not being supplied with sufficient…

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Kembla Miners' Prosecuted

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 28 April 1911 · page 11

In the Court on Friday the cross-examination of Mooney was continued. The witness deposed that Mr. Rogers did not say, "If you have any…

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Mt. Kembla Miners Prosecuted

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 28 April 1911 · page 12

The charges against a number of miners of Mt. Kembla colliery of a breach of special rule 193, to wit, absenting themseLves from work on…

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Mount Kembla Miners. Leaving Their Working Places

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 28 April 1911 · page 4

The adjourned charge against David Smith for absenting himself form his working place in Mt. Kembla mine during the prescribed working hours…

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Mount Kembla Miners. Leaving Their Working Places. the Case Finished

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 2 May 1911 · page 2

The case against David Smith for absenting himself from work in the Mount Kembla mine on the 21st of March during the proscribed working…

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