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Illawarra · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1930

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Metropolitan Colliery

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 14 March 1930 · page 13

Full time is being worked at the Metropolitan Colliery. A start has been made to put up a conveyor belt, to carry the coal when tipped, so as to…

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Mines and Miners. Mr. Lowden Comments on Action of Wollongong Council

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 14 March 1930 · page 9

Speaking to our representative this morning, Mr. F. Lowden, President of the S.C. brunch of the Miners' Federation, said that the members of his…

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Illawarra Miners

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 14 March 1930 · page 21

There is a slump in coal mining on the South Coast. 49 men got their notice at Wongawilli yesterday. During the past week…

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Support the Gold Bonus Campaign

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 14 March 1930 · page 9

Tho Mining Association of Westorn Australia is agitating far a g[?]bonus. It is pointed out that gold is tho magnet that led to the development of Victoria and Now South Wales. These States in 1851 were unknown to tho world and their few industries were stagnant…

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Mines and Miners

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 18 March 1930 · page 2

At a meeting of the Illawarra Miners' Management Board it was decided to ask the management of the Coalcliff Colliery to grant a conference in…

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Mines and Miners

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 21 March 1930 · page 9

At the last meeting of the Management Board of the Southern Miners the management of many of the South Coast mines, it was stated, were eva[?]…

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Comrade to Comrade Western Miners' Generosity

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 21 March 1930 · page 10

During the lait nine mpnths members of the Western Miners'' Federation have contributed, by means of the 12[?] er cent, levy £64,…

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Around the District. Mount Kembla. The Mine

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 21 March 1930 · page 7

The pay to be drawn at the mine on Friday next is for 10 days. The quarterly cavil was drawn satisfactorily Last Thursday…

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Assistance to Northern Miners. Co-op. Society's Scheme

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 21 March 1930 · page 1

Woonona Cooperative Society Management Committee decided at their meeting on Friday to use the branch stores throughout the Coast as depots…

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Mining in the West. Is Again Intermittent

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 21 March 1930 · page 15

Information was received at the Office of the Western Miners' Federation 'during the' week, that 21 notices of dismissal had been…

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Mines and Miners

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 25 March 1930 · page 2

The Conference at Sydney on Friday, between the management of Coalcliff Colliery and the representatives of the miners, proved abortive, as the…

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Dismissal Notices at Wongawilli Colliery. Curtailment of Operation at Blast Furnace

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 25 March 1930 · page 1

At Wongawill Colliery on Monday, 280 men received notice of the termination of their employment, and as there are only 282…

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Mines and Miners

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 28 March 1930 · page 14

The Metropolitan Colliery, Helensburgh, has worked seven days for the pay up to March 26th. add mines and miners [?]…

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Mine

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 28 March 1930 · page 17

The employees of the Corrimal-Balgownie Colliery had a small pay to draw last Friday—the smallest for some considerable time…

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Balgownie. Mine

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 28 March 1930 · page 12

The employees of the Mt. Pleasant Colliery had a small pay la[?] Friday. IN HOSPITAL…

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Mine to Close Down

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 28 March 1930 · page 11

Advice has been received from London that operations are to be discontinued on the Captain's lint goldfields with the exception of some…

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Mines and Miners

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 4 April 1930 · page 10

The pay at the Metropolitan Colliery is for eight days. On Tuesday morning a dispute arose' at the Metropolitan Colliery in…

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Gold Mining Transaction. Wollongong Solicitor Sued

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 4 April 1930 · page 9

In No. 1 Jury Causes Court, Sydney, this week, before Mr. Justice Ferguson and a jury, Gilbert Gordon Coghill sued diaries A. Morgan, solicitor, of…

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Corrimal Mine

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 4 April 1930 · page 16

Employees of the Corrimal-Balgownie Collieries have six days for the pay, to be drawn to-day. CRICKET…

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A Golden Dance. Gathers Gold in Forty Guineas

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Saturday 5 April 1930 · page 2

Not quite in the old-fashioned-coin was the financial result of Wednesday evening's golden dance at Jamberoo, when a packed house enjoyed the…

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