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Illawarra · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1925

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Mines and Miners

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 15 May 1925 · page 11

Mount Keira mine has worked full time this week There was no work at the Mt. Kembla Extended, Mt. Pleasant and Mt. Kembla…

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Illawarra Miners

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 15 May 1925 · page 16

The collieries generally have worked, except two interrupted by the storm a full week. Mount Kembla and Mount Keira have 10 days for…

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Accident at Mt. Keira Mine

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 15 May 1925 · page 2

On Wednesday, Wm. Murphy, a stoneman working with a shot-firer, was standing in the Mt. Keira Mine when a shot was being fired. A stone that…

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Illawarra Miners

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 22 May 1925 · page 16

The Coal Tribunal hears in the Court House, Wollongong to-day the matters in dispute at Mt. Kembla. Mt. Kembla Extended has been…

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Mines and Miners

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 29 May 1925 · page 2

The Metropolitan Mine worked every day, with the exception of Wednesday, when it was idle through the engine belonging to the Railway Department…

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Illawarra Miners

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 29 May 1925 · page 16

The week has been an orderly one at the collieries, no troubles. There was to have been a conference in Sydney yesterday on the…

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Coal Tribunal

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 29 May 1925 · page 5
Also in Illawarra Mercury

On Friday and Saturday last the Coal Tribunal comprising Charles Hibble, Chairman; T. R. Morgan and J. Jarvie, Proprietors; D. Rees S…

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Oil From Coal Research

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 29 May 1925 · page 25

In an address delivered last April to the Institution of Automobile Engineers, London, D.r W. R. Ormandy, president, said that during a…

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Mines and Miners

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 5 June 1925 · page 2

The pay at the Metropolitan Colliery is for eight days. The cavil was drawn on Thursday of last week, and miners commenced in their new places on…

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Illawarra Miners

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 5 June 1925 · page 16

The slackening in demand for coal continued this week: Mt. Kembla, Mt. Pleasant and. Mt. Keira have each worked only 3 days. For the pay…

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Mines and Miners

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 12 June 1925 · page 2

The Metropolitan mine worked four days last week, and eight days are expected for the pay. A miner on his first day's start at the mine was found…

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Victoria's Coal Briquettes

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 12 June 1925 · page 2

Briquettes, such as have now become a popular fuel in many thousands pf homes throughout Victoria, consist simply of brown coal forced…

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Mines and Miners. Wonthaggi Miners. High Court Judgment

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 19 June 1925 · page 2

The High Court, Melbourne, delivered judgment on Tuesday regarding an appeal by certain miners employed at the State coal mine, Wonthaggi…

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Colliery Mechanics' Association

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 19 June 1925 · page 2

A meeting of the Colliery Mechanics' Association was held at Wollongong on Saturday, and the outcome of the meeting points to trouble occurring in the…

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Illawarra Miners

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 19 June 1925 · page 17

A delegate meeting was held on Wednesday and Thursday. Re Werriwa selection ballot, the Board instructed the secretary to…

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Coal Ltd

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 19 June 1925 · page 15

In their report for the year ended June 30th last year, the directors state that the chairman of the company, while in England during the…

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Mines and Miners

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 26 June 1925 · page 2

A conference was held between the management of the Mount Kembla mine and the representative of the lodge and Executive Officers on…

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Colliery Fatality

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 26 June 1925 · page 10

Yesterday at Bulli the deputy coroner, Mr. James Kirby held an inquiry as to the death of John Erskine in the Illawarra Hospital on…

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Colliery Mechanics' Overtime

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 26 June 1925 · page 24

South Coast Colliery Mechanics have a grievance in the matter of overtime payment. Through the head office of the Association in…

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