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Illawarra · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1917

159 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 7 of 8

Illawarra Miners

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 5 October 1917 · page 13

Resumption of work from Kembla to Cloalcliff is now general, although not full. Scarborough which started on Wednesday, has had a stop owing to a…

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Victorian Brown Coal

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 5 October 1917 · page 22

Mr. Livingstone, the Victorian Minister for Mines, has submitted to the Cabinet a statement showing the results of a series of tests made with a special type…

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Illawarra Miners

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 12 October 1917 · page 13
Also in Illawarra Mercury, Illawarra Mercury

A delegate board meeting was to have been held yesterday to receive reports from the Council re interview with the Cabinet. Word was received that the…

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Mine Explosion in Scotland

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 12 October 1917 · page 21

Three lives were lost as the result of an explosion in No. 1 Cauldhame Pity Springside, near Kilmarnock, on Wednesday last week, reports an Ayrshire…

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Farming and Mining Inventions

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 12 October 1917 · page 4

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

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Illawarra Miners

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 19 October 1917 · page 13
Also in Illawarra Mercury

The Association is endeavoring to have Judge Curlewis Court in the district next week, in order that the victimisation cases may be heard…

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Pushing Brown Coal

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 19 October 1917 · page 5

Following the successful results which attended the recent experiments with brown coal at Newport timber seasoning works, the Victorian Mines Department…

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Coal for Hospital. (To the Editor.)

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 19 October 1917 · page 6

Sir—By your edition of the 19th inst I note that at the last monthly meeting of the Hospital Committee comment, on the alleged…

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The Jumbunna Coal Mine

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 26 October 1917 · page 6

The Jumbunna coal mine, writes the "N.M. Herald" correspondent, was the best in Victoria as far is the quality of its coal was concerned, but our…

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Illawarra Miners

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 26 October 1917 · page 2

The victimisation tribunal which has been constituted by the Government for the Southern Coal-mining District will commence its sittings…

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The Mines. Slackness of Trade

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 2 November 1917 · page 5

Mount Keira.—The pay for last fortnight to be drawn to-day is only for five days, and no time has been worked so far for this pay…

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Colliery Accidents

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 9 November 1917 · page 7

The case of Frederick Luttrell against the Bulli Colliery and Coke Works, Limited, was before Mr. Justice Ferguson in the Supreme…

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Illawarra Miners

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 9 November 1917 · page 11

In the course of an interview with Mr. Beeby upon the question of victimisation writes Mr. Davies, M.L.A., I was informed that the men who had been turned down…

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The Mines

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 9 November 1917 · page 2

[?].—work Continues very brisk at the Excelsior Colliery, every day having been worked this week. Three…

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The Miners Battalion

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 9 November 1917 · page 7

Captain Chaplain J. Wilson, during the course of a lecture, which is reported in "The Methodist," paid a high tribute to the work of the…

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N. Q. Attracts Miners

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 9 November 1917 · page 22

It is stated that 300 miners in the northern district have gone to Queensland, where the inducements offered by the Government are considered sufficient…

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Coal Limited Labor Suspension

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 9 November 1917 · page 13

In the Warden's Court, Wollongong, to-day, there was an application by the above company for a further suspension of labor conditions on the mining…

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