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Illawarra · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1914

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Southern Collieries' Wages Board

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 2 January 1914 · page 16

This Wages Board resumed its sittings at Bulli on Monday last and continued till Tuesday. Messrs. Sellers and Malet (employers), and Messrs. Willis and…

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Illawarra Miners

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 2 January 1914 · page 2
Also in South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus

The second ballot in connection with the election of officers for the Illawarra Colliery Employees' Association resulted in the following…

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Cost of Coal. Engine-man and the Rain

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 2 January 1914 · page 7

Again, for a little while, for a very little while, the public mind is perturbed by a large scale colliery accident. We get the big type, and the…

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Illawarra Miners

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 6 January 1914 · page 2

Dissatisfaction exists in the ranks of the IIlawarra miners at the manner in which several deficiency claims were fixed up at a conference between…

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Coaldust in Mines

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 6 January 1914 · page 2

The coaldust committee appointed by Mr. Edden, Minister for Mines, has inspected a number of collieries in the districts. Advertisements were…

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Illawarra Miners

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 9 January 1914 · page 7
Also in South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus

Speaking to a " Mercury" representative this morning, Mr. A. C. Willis, miners' general secretary, said the executive officers throughly…

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Farming & Mining Inventions

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 9 January 1914 · page 19

Messrs. Griffith and Hassell, Patent Attorneys, 77 Castlereagh Street, Sydney, report that the following applications for patents connected with…

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Southern Collieries' Wages Board

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 16 January 1914 · page 14

The Illawarra Collieries' Wages Board resumed its sittings at the Built Courthouse on Tuesday morning last. Before the business was entered…

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Colliery Screenings Notes of Recent Visit to Europe

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 16 January 1914 · page 22

The following is extracted from an article by Inspector Humble (Newcastle) in the "Mining and Engineering Review."—"In many respects comparisons are of…

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Illawarra Miners

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 20 January 1914 · page 2

The Delegate Board met at Tattersalls' Hotel yesterday and to-day. So far only routine business has been transacted…

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Colliery Screenings Coal Cutting Machinery

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 23 January 1914 · page 18

When the Mines Eight Hours Bill was under discussion in the British Parliament, great stress was laid upon the extended use of coalcutting machinery as a…

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Southern Collieries' Wages Board

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 23 January 1914 · page 11

The Southern Collieries Wages Board resumed its sittings' in the Wollongong Courthouse yesterday morning. Charles Josland, chairman of…

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Illawarra Miners

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 23 January 1914 · page 2

The Illawarra Colliery Employees' Association delegate board met at Tattersall's Hotel on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of this week…

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Illawarra Miners

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 30 January 1914 · page 14

The Wages Board regained sitting yesterday, witnesses examined being P. O'Neil (Mt. Keira), on question of eyesight, and A. Hicks (Mt. Pleasant)…

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Colliery Screenings Robertson Coal Measures

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 6 February 1914 · page 6

After a considerable amount of agitation by the committee of the Robertson Coal Measures, Mr. Pittman, Under-Secretary for Mines, and Geological…

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Southern Collieries' Wages Board

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 6 February 1914 · page 16

The Southern Collieries Wages Board resumed its sitting in the Wollongong Courthouse on Wednesday last. The counter claims hearing was begun…

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North Bulli Colliery

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 6 February 1914 · page 6

There has been installed here during the last few months much new machinery admitting of reaching the new district being worked into, and of handling…

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Southern Collieries' Wages Board. (Continued.)

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 6 February 1914 · page 15

Per day after each three months was, in witness' opinion, fair payment; a wheeler got no experience as a miner while he was wheeling beyond assisting a miner…

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