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Illawarra · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1915

166 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 5 of 9

Colliery Screenings Coal in China

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 18 June 1915 · page 19

China's mineral wealth is both varied and abundant. Coal is found in great quantities generally throughout the country; in fact, there is…

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Coalcliff Colliery Trouble

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 18 June 1915 · page 15

We receive the following statement from Mr. A. C. Willis, general sec.: The Coalcliff mine has now been idle about thirteen weeks, and what…

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Coalcliff Colliery Cases

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 18 June 1915 · page 10

On Tuesday the Cause of the enginedriver George Hodges was entered upon in the Wollongong Court. Mr. G. S. Beeby, for the…

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Illawarra Miners

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 18 June 1915 · page 7

Summonses have been taken out against the proprietors of the Coalcliff Colliery by the miners representatives for a breach of custom arising…

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Illawarra Miners

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 22 June 1915 · page 2

The Wages Board will sit at Sydney to-morrow to deal with the "Special Place" trouble at Helensburgh. An attempt will be made to bring the…

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Southern Coal Agency

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 22 June 1915 · page 2

Mr. Morrish asked the Secretary for Mines the following questions in the State Parliament last, week:—(1) What is the number of coal leases and what…

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Illawarra Miners

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 25 June 1915 · page 2
Also in South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus

The accountants ascertainment of the average selling price of coal from the Illawarra Collieries for the six months ending May last has been made known…

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Corrimal—Balgownie Colliery Award

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 25 June 1915 · page 20

The Wages Board's award in the matter of the rates for working special headings, the dispute re which the Board recently heard, is as…

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Farming and Mining Inventions

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 25 June 1915 · page 16

Messrs. Griffith and Haasel, patent-attorneys, of 77 Castlereagh' st. Sydney, report that the following applications for patents connected…

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Illawarra Miners. Gilmore's Release

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 29 June 1915 · page 2

Yesterday morning early visitors to Brighton Lawn observed a group of men standing in the vicinity of too local gaol. It proved to be the…

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Illawarra Miners

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 2 July 1915 · page 13
Also in Illawarra Mercury

At the social tendered Mr. Thos. Gilmore, at Scarborough, the executive officers of the association spoke in terms of eulogy of his…

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Colliery Screenings Tasmanian Coalfield

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 2 July 1915 · page 4

In the course of a report on the southern coalfields of Tasmania Mr. Tweivetrees (Mines Department), deals at some length with the…

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Illawarra Miners

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 6 July 1915 · page 2

A stoppage occurred at Bulli Mine on Monday over the management refusing some 40 men deficiency pay. As no settlement had been arrived at the…

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Colliery Screenings Tasmanian Coal

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 9 July 1915 · page 4

Dr. Arthur Wade, D.Sc., the Commonwealth Oil Expert, reporting on the Prelonna Coalfield, near Launceston, says, inter alia: All the…

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Coalcliff Colliery Prosecutions

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 9 July 1915 · page 13

This morning the case of George Hodge, engine-driver, adjourned, came on for hearing in the Wollongong Court. Mr. J. C. Jones…

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Illawarra Miners

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 9 July 1915 · page 13

The cavil is being drawn at Coal-cliff to-day, and, provided it is got through satisfactorily, the colliery should be at work on Monday once…

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Colliery Screenings Blair Athol Coal Co

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 16 July 1915 · page 22

The half yearly meeting of the company was held in Rockhampton, Queensland, on May 27th. The report of the directors showed that…

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Illawarra Miners

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 16 July 1915 · page 16

The adjourned hearing of the Coal-cliff absent from work summonses came on on Tuesday in the Wollongong Court. William Hyde's case…

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