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Illawarra · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1912

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Illawarra Miners

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 5 January 1912 · page 9

The matter of the dissatisfaction at South Clifton with the time—four o'clock—at which the afternoon shift goes in, remains unsettled. The…

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Illawarra Mines

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 5 January 1912 · page 2

The members of the Corrimal Miners' Lodge have requested Mr. Andrew Gray, miners' general secretary, to ask the manager of…

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Illawarra Miners

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 12 January 1912 · page 7

The Miners' General Secretary (Mr. A. Gray) has been officially informed by Mr. W. A. Firth (Secretary of the Southern Coal Owners' Association)…

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Colliery Screenings Days Worked in 1911

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 12 January 1912 · page 20

A return showing the number of days worked at the collieries in the Maitland coalfield dueing the 52 weeks ending on the 23rd December,…

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Standard of Primary Education. Qualifying Certificate Questions of Public Schools. Gold Watches for the Best Paper on Arithmetic

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 12 January 1912 · page 3

Recently over 12,000 boys and girls attending the Public Schools were examined in arithmetic, dictation, English, geography, and history, with the…

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Illawarra Miners

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 16 January 1912 · page 2

The trouble at the Scarborough mine has been settled. In the case of the miner who was charged with being drunk at the face, the manager…

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Illawarra Miners

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 19 January 1912 · page 11
Also in Illawarra Mercury

Illawarra Miners. The annual meeting of the Illawarra Colliery Employees' Delegate Board was held at Tattersall's Hotel…

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Illawarra Miners

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 23 January 1912 · page 2

Mr. J. T. Watson, manager of the Corrimal-Balgownie Collieries, Ltd., has asked us to correct the statement made by Mr. Gray, general Secretary…

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Colliery Screenings Matches in Mines

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 26 January 1912 · page 6

Giving evidence before the Royal Commission that is inquiring into the cause of the explosion in Killingworth Colliery, on 7th December,…

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Illawarra Miners

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 26 January 1912 · page 2
Also in South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus

The miners' general secretary (Mr. A. Gray) is-in receipt of a communication from the Southern Colliery Proprietors' Association to the effect…

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A Goldfields Sketch. the Lady Speculator

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 26 January 1912 · page 3

I had just remarked to Sue, "It's too dull for anything. I wish something would happen—a cyclone or an earthquake, anything to relieve the…

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Colliery Screenings Victorian State Mine. the Slack Question

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 2 February 1912 · page 20

The slack problem is the principal one the mine officials have to solve in order to make the State mine a success. It is recognised by all, says…

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Alleged Druukenness in a Mine

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 2 February 1912 · page 15

In the Wollongong Court on Thursday. Henry David was charged with having remained in the South Clifton mine while in a state of…

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Farming & Mining Inventions

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 2 February 1912 · page 13

Messrs. Griffith and Hassel, Patent Attorneys, of 168 King-street, Sydney, and 9 Queen-street, Melbourne, report that the following applications…

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Colliery Screenings Queensland

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 9 February 1912 · page 9

Before the Warden's Court at Rockhampton recently the Charley Coal Mines proprietary applied for six months exemption of several leases;…

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Illawarra Miners

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 9 February 1912 · page 7
Also in South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus

The miners general secretary (Mr. A. Gray) has received a letter from M. W. A. Firth, secretary of the Southern Colliery Proprietors' Association…

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Farming & Mining Inventions

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 9 February 1912 · page 13

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

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