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Illawarra · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1913

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Illawarra Miners

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 24 October 1913 · page 8
Also in South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus

A preliminary meeting of the South Coast Miners' Wages Board was held at the Courthouse yesterday. The claims and counter claims were…

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Scottish Miners in Conference

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 24 October 1913 · page 4

At the twentieth annual conference of the Scottish Miners' Federation, Mr. R. Smillie, president, presiding, a number of questions were discussed and…

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Farming & Mining Inventions

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 24 October 1913 · page 7

Messrs. Griffith and Hassell, patent attorneys, of 77 Castlereagh-street, Sydney, report that the following applications for patents connected with farming…

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Illawarra-Miners

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 31 October 1913 · page 2

On Wednesday last a joint deputation representing the Western, Northern, and Broken Hill Miners, interviewed the Minister for Mines (Mr. A…

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Colliery Screenings Development in Fifeshire

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 31 October 1913 · page 3

A very vivid idea of the remarkable new industrial revolutions and expansoins now taking place in Scotland, in the County of Fife, is given by an able…

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Colliery Explosions. the Miner. (To the Editor)

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 31 October 1913 · page 18

Sir,—In recent issues of the metropolitan press appeared a valuable contribution from the pen of a mining expert on coal dust and its antidote stone…

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Good News for the Miners

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 31 October 1913 · page 2

Mr. A. C. Willis, secretary of the South Coast Miners' Association, has received a communication from the Chief Commissioner for Railways,…

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Illawarra Miners

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 7 November 1913 · page 11
Also in Illawarra Mercury

yesterday the miners secretary (Mr. A. Willis) received the following telegram from New Zealand—"Engaged in gigantic struggle with Maoriland armed scabs…

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Colliery Screenings Trouble at Wonthaggi

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 7 November 1913 · page 2

The trouble which has arisen at the State mine over the putting off a party of six men, for, as the mine manager, Mr. McLeish, contends, absenting them…

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Language in a Mine and Legal Points

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 7 November 1913 · page 6

William Johnson, a wheeler, pleaded not guilty to a charge of using obscene language in the Mount Pleasant mine Mr. Lyssght appeared for the defence,…

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Illawarra Miners

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 11 November 1913 · page 2

The nominations to hand for the positions of district officers are as follows :—President, Peter Bowling (Balmain), J.Macguire, Cairns, and…

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Government Action on Coal Monopoly

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 11 November 1913 · page 5

With the filing at Philadelphia (says the Boston, U.S.A., "Monitor") by the attorney-general of the United States, of a civil suit for the…

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Colliery Screenings Oil V. COAL. Testing Newcastle Coal

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 14 November 1913 · page 3

Recently (as mentioned in our last issue) a big Newcastle firm received a letter from their San Francisco house, drawing attention to the keen…

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Colliery Screenings

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 14 November 1913 · page 2

At the, inquest to the fatal accident to William Richardson, a miner in Pelawmain, in the tops by a fall of What was described as conglomorate, the jury…

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Southern Collieries' Wages Board

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 14 November 1913 · page 8

The Board which deals with the conditions of the mine employees met in the Wollongong on Tuesday to hear the claims of the employees for a new award to…

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Upper Richmond Coal

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 14 November 1913 · page 3

For some time past the Tooloom and Woodenbong Butter Factory at Urbenville, on the Upper Richmond River has been using locally obtained coal for…

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Wages Board. Southern Miners' Claim. Third Day—thursday

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 18 November 1913 · page 2

Mr. T. Morgan continued his cross-examination of J. Maguire in regard to charging for laying T[?] rails. Mr. Morgan: Since the 1910 award…

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Southern Collieries' Wages Board

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 21 November 1913 · page 5

The Southern Collieries Wages Board, Mr. C. Hibble (chairman) A. E. Sellers and E. Malet (employers) and A. C. Willis and Jas. Russell (employees)…

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