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New England · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1920

214 stories in New England's papers · page 7 of 11

Coal Trouble

The Inverell Times · Monday 30 August 1920 · page 4

The Federated Seamen's Union threatens to hold up more steamers unless its demand, limiting the amount of coal to be handled by firemen, is…

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New Zealand Coal. Serious Position

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 1 September 1920 · page 4

Owing to the serious position disclosed regarding New Zealand's coal Supply, the Government has decided to send a delegation to Australia to…

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New Zealand Coal Industry. Strike Settled

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 2 September 1920 · page 4

A meeting of the Junior Public Officers' Association has protested against the delay in granting increased salaries. One speaker said that…

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Lithgow Coal Strike

The Inverell Times · Friday 3 September 1920 · page 4

12 men employed at the State coal mine at Lithgow struck work yesterday because one man had been dismissed from the mine. They refuse to go back…

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British Coal Trouble. Hope of Mediation. (Reuter's Cable)

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 8 September 1920 · page 4

The Trade Union Congress, which it is hoped will avert the threatened coal strike by securing mediation between the miners and the Government, was…

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Gold Dust and Bad Dust

Guyra Argus · Thursday 9 September 1920 · page 4

Dust inhaled is popularly regarded as a source of lung trouble. Experience has shown, however, we are told by a writer in "The Journal of the…

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Mining at Elsmore

The Inverell Times · Friday 10 September 1920 · page 4

Six mouths ago Elsmore came to the conclusion that its lode formation was not worth bothering about. Now it has worked out all its surface ground and…

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New [?]Aland Coal [?]Hortaor. Grows Mors Acute Daily

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 13 September 1920 · page 2

The shortage of [?] in New Zealand grows daily [?] peate The [?] are eloped and the swners are apparently w[?]it until the [?] breaks…

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The Coal Shortage

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 14 September 1920 · page 2

The steamer S[?]da had left Newcastle for Singapore in ba[?]st after waiting 37 days fora a [?]arge of coal…

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What Coal Miners Earw

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 17 September 1920 · page 9

The returns, compiled for the N.S.W. Taxation Department, showing the earnings of employees at one coljiery in the northern district for the year…

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What Coal Miners Earn

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 21 September 1920 · page 2

The returns, compiled for the N.S.W., Taxation Department, showing the earning of employees at one colliery in the northern district for the year…

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Supposed Gold Find

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 21 September 1920 · page 5

Permission has been granted two prospectors to enter farm lands near Alstonville to reach for gold, where a [?] discovery is alleged to have…

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Auckland Coal Crisis. Tramways Threatened

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 22 September 1920 · page 4

The coal crisis in Auckland is assuming daily a more serious position. Unless coal comes to hand within a week, the tramways will cease…

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Telegraphic. Sydney, Tuesday. Broken Hill Mines. Twelve Millions Lost

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 22 September 1920 · page 4

At the annual meeting of the Broken Hill South Company, the Chairman stated that productive work had not been done at any mine for seventeen months,…

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Dearer Coal

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 23 September 1920 · page 4

An increase in the selling price of coal must come almost immediately as a result of increased wages granted under the coal award…

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Coal Increased

The Inverell Times · Friday 24 September 1920 · page 4

The new award for coalminers will probably cause an increase in the cost of coal. Sir Allen Taylor estimates it will involve an extra thirty to fifty…

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Newstead Mine Machinery

The Inverell Times · Friday 24 September 1920 · page 4

Messrs M'Gregor and Bloxham advise that the sale of the above machinery has been effected privately and in consequence the auction set down for…

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The Coal Tribunal

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 24 September 1920 · page 4

Sydney, Thursday.—The award of the Coal Tribunal was made known yesterday by the chairman, which provides that adult offhand employees shall…

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Visit of the Minister for Mines

Tingha Advocate and North-Western Journal · Friday 24 September 1920 · page 2

The following letter has been received from the Minister for Mines (through Mr McClelland, M.L.A.) in response to an…

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Coal Shortage. Auckland Trams

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 25 September 1920 · page 4

An Auckland message says the trams will probably stop running to-morrow, owing to the shortage of coal. Intense suffering is reported among…

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