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Illawarra · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1913

178 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 6 of 9

Illawarra Miners. Trouble at Coledale Mine Averted

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 12 August 1913 · page 2

Mr. A C. Willis, miners' president attended a massed meeting of the Coledale miners, wheelers, and shiftmen Coledale on Sunday…

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Collieries Wages Board

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 15 August 1913 · page 13

There was a meeting in the Courthouse, Wollongong, on Monday, of the No. 4 and No. 2 Wages Boards. Mr. A. E. Elliott (chairman) presided…

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Illawarra Miners

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 15 August 1913 · page 9

Mr. Waugh, inspector, has during the week inquired into South Clifton deficiency claims, and there are hopes of their being settled…

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Farming & Mining Inventions

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 15 August 1913 · page 4

Messrs. Griffith and Hassel, Patent Attorneys of 77 Castlereagh-street, Sydney, report that the following applications for patents connected with farming…

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The Miners' Relief Fund

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 19 August 1913 · page 2

The inadequacy of the "Miners' Relief fund" of K.S.W., to meet the loss sustained by miners, when laid idle by various diseases incidental to…

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Western Collieries' Award

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 22 August 1913 · page 15

The Western Collieries' Wages Board has issued the following award for the Irondale Colliery: Rates for miners.—3. The lowest price…

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Illawarra Miners

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 22 August 1913 · page 2
Also in South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus

Special meeting of delegates of Illawarra Colliery Employees' Association was held at Wollongong on Tuesday, when there were present: Messrs A. C…

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Wonthaggi Mine

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 22 August 1913 · page 1

The adjustment of all the contract rates, both for wheelers and miners, for the ensuing two and a half year a in the Victorian State coalmine, is…

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Colliery Screenings Coke and By-products Works

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 22 August 1913 · page 15

The works of the Australian Coking and By-products Company,. Limited, at Islington, Newcastle, are rapidly approaching completion…

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Balmain Colliery

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 29 August 1913 · page 4

Mr. Hughes, a miner in the Balmain Colliery, gives an interesting account of the workings of that colliery to the "Lithgow Mercury." In every…

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Technical Education for Miners and Mining Centres

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 29 August 1913 · page 6

The above was the title of a paper read at a recent conference of technical school teachers by Mr. Jon. May, from which the following is an extract:…

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Illawarra Miners

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 29 August 1913 · page 11

A meeting of the conciliation committee was held in Wollongong on Monday. A claim from Mount Keira for throwing back stone was considered, but the…

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Colliery Screenings Queensland Minerals

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 29 August 1913 · page 5

Mr. Pittman, Under-secretary for Mines and Government Geologist of New South Wales, who has been two months away in Queensland, partly in connection with…

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Stoppage at Coledale Mine

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 29 August 1913 · page 2

The Coledale mine was idle yesterday on account of trouble over two boys refusing to work overtime. The surface hands, composed principally of…

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Farming & Mining inventions

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 29 August 1913 · page 8

Messrs. Griffith and Hassel, patentattorneys, of 77 Castlereagh-street, Sydney, report that the following applications for patents connected with…

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Mt. Kembla Collieries, Ltd

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 5 September 1913 · page 13

The above company was registered at Somerset House (London) on July 9th, with a capital of £500,000 In £1 shares. Business: Miners, oil manufacturers,…

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Colliery Screenings Balmain Colliery. Opinion by Ex-lithgow Miner

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 5 September 1913 · page 17

A representative of this paper (Lithgow "Mercury") had an interesting, although short, conversation with Mr. W. C. Hughes, for many years a resident…

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Illawarra Miners

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 5 September 1913 · page 7
Also in Illawarra Mercury

The conciliation committee met at Bulli on Monday. The hearing adjourned of the claim from South Bulli that untokened skips which came out be…

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