Wallsend Miners' Meeting
A special meeting of the Wallsend miners was held on Saturday forenoon. Mr. Thos. Richardson presided. The lodge officers reported that a…
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Mining & the mines, 1906
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The Mining Industry. Sydney
The following reports relative to labour in the various mining districts are embodied in a report of Mr. Schey, Director of Labour, presented to the Premier…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mining Matters. Trouble at Seaham
Rumours were rife in West Wallsend yesterday of trouble with the wheelers, drivers, and trappers at Seaham Colliery. However, the mine worked throughout the…
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Twenty drivers engaged at Hetton Colliery, at Carrington, ceased work yesterday, but operations were carried on as usual, shiftmen and other hands being put…
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There appears to be a spirit of unrest abroad amongst several sections of the workers in the collieries throughout the district. At one mine, there is talk of the…
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Work went on yesterday at Seaham Colliery without a bitch, all the hands going down, including the drivers and trappers, who had knocked off work on…
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There was a feeling of unrest on Monday amongst the clippers-on and drivers engaged in West Wallsend Colliery, and the miners and wheelers fully expected…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Glebe Miners
The monthly meeting of the Glebe miners was held on Monday evening, in Simpson's Hall. There was a good attendance, and Mr. R. Powell occupied the…
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The discretionary powers of committees under the Miners Accident Relief Act were decided by the judgment of the Full Court, delivered on a…
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A meeting of the members of the Wallarah Miners' lodge was held in Tobin's Hall on Saturday evening. Mr. J. Bassett occupied the chair, and there were…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mining Troubles. Hetton Colliery
The drivers at Hetton Colliery were still out yesterday, and last night there appeared very little prospect of their going in to work to-day. They waited upon the…
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There was little alteration in the position at Hetton Colliery yesterday. The mine continued to work, the deputies under-manager, and two or three other…
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A representative of the "Newcastle Morning Herald" waited yesterday upon Mr. Duncan M'Geachie, manager of the West Wallsend Colliery, and…
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A special meeting of the Stockton Miners' Lodge was held last night. Mr. J. Robson, president, in the chair. The district president, Mr. Peter…
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A special meeting of the Sea pit miners was held in Blackburn's Hotel on Tuesday evening, to deal with the committee of management minutes of the 11th and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Colliery Development. Seaham Co.'s New Mine
In that portion of the great coalfield of the Hunter Valley which lies nearest to Newcastle, present and future development must of necessity hind its greatest…
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The Stockton drivers and wheelers have asked for an increase in wages. When the request was preferred, the maanger, Mr. George Durie, said it would have to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal and Coal Measures. University Extension Lecture
At the Newcastle School of Arts, on Friday night, the second of the series of University extension lectures, arranged for by the committee, was delivered by…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mining Matters. Position at Hetton
A meeting of the wheelers, drivers, offhanded shiftmen, water-boilers, flatters, trappers, and bricklayers' labourers engaged at Hetton Colliery was held on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal for South Australia. the New Contract. Adelaide
Some time ago Mr. Price, the State Premier, supplied the information that by spreading the contract for the supply of coal for the Government departments over…
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