Coal Situation Easier Mr. Willis Issues a Challenge Sydney
It is now believed that the trouble at Coledale Colliery will be amicably setted All the South Coast mines were working to-day. A more tranquil feeling is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mining & the mines, 1919
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The Darg. Accepted at Wollongong. Sydney, Monday. Wollongong reports four mines are now under thr Darg system. Man's Disappearance at Coogee. Sydney
The mysterious disappearance is reported of a young man who entered the surf at Coogee. On Thursday he went to the sheds well dressed, and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Coal Trouble Speeding Up Alleged. Sydney
Mr. Baddeley, President of the Northern Collieries Federations, declares that the system now governing the industry subjects the workers to inhumane high…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coorabin Coal Mine
Very satisfactory progress is being made at the mine, and the shaft has been sunk about 20 feet into the seam. Since the arrival of the new manager,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Declining Mining Industry Closing of Copper Mines. Sydney
The Minister for Mines, Mr. Fitzpatrick, referring to the copper crisis, says that matters have been going form bad to worse. We are now threatened in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Decrease in Gold Yield
The gold yield in New South Wales for the past two months shows a comparative decrease in value of £11,288…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Margarine From Coal
Prof. Spooner, at the Fuel Economy Exhibition in Trafalgar Square, London, recently said that coal contains as many treasures as Pandora's box. It was likely…
Continued on Trove, page 36 →Great Cobar Mine to Close
The Great Cobar mine will close at the end of this week. The reason for this crave step is the continued Serious fall in the price of copper, the uncertainty of the…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Export of Gold "Financially Unsound."
The Victorian Minister for Mines (Mr. Barnes) believes it is economically and financially unsound to export gold won in Victoria to the East and other countries,…
Continued on Trove, page 47 →Labor in England Six Hour Day in Coal Mines Would Reduce Output by 21 Per Cent. London
The Coal Commission has investigated the effect of a six-hour day, upon which the strongest differences of opinion exist…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Latest Cables. Interesting Speech in the House of Commons. Something About the Navy's Wonderful Achievements. Tremendous Transport It Made Possible. Over 5000 Moored Mines Destroyed Since the Armistice. LONDON
In the House of Commons, Mr. Walter Long, in moving a vote for a naval personnel of 208,000, said the Admiralty was preparing a statement…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners' Wages Doubled in Four Years. London
Employers' statistics submitted to the Coal Commission show that the average earnings of piece workers rose in the past four years from 8/6 to 16/11 a shift…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Nationalisation of Mines No Alternative Admitted. London
"Tho Government must accept nationalisation in principle without delay, otherwise it is useless to ask for the withdrawal of the strike notices," said Mr Straker,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →D[?]lining Yields. Wool, Wheat and Gold
The estimated total yield of the Commonwealth wheat harvest in 1918-19 is 40,000,000 bushels short of the yield for 1917-18. With the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mining Company Turns Butchee Prices Reduced 2d. Per Pound
The Mount Lyell Company has embarked on an interesting trading experiment in taking over the butchers' shops at Gormanston and Linda. The shop are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheelers in Coal Mines Increase of Threepence Perton Sydney
The Standford Merthyr Miners' Lodge has decided to accept the offer of the management to pay an increased rate of threepence a ton to wheelers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fooling with a Mine
A quaint tale of the adventures of a mine which was found by a Boer farmor and his son on the shore near Eland's Bay, South Africa, and which was opened with a tin…
Continued on Trove, page 38 →N.s.w. Copper Mines
At the conference of representatives of thirteen copper mining companies convened to consider the position of the industry in relation to the embargo on the…
Continued on Trove, page 33 →To-day's Latest. the Labor Troubles in Britain. Evidence Before the Coal Commission. Nationalisation of Mines Urged. London
Mr. Hartshorn, M.P., addressing the Coal Commission, said that if nationalisation were not secured as the result of peaceful evolution, it would…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Huge German Gold Reserve London
German delegates to the Armistice Commission informed Admiral Sir Roselyn Wemyss, British First Sea Lord, who was the chief naval representative…
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