Production of Coal Gas. Fight with Electricity
The progress of gas lighting in Great Britain as shown in the "Gas World Year Book, which has just been issued, is interesting as affording opportunity for the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1911
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Killed in the Pit. Accident in Wallarah Mine
Frank Williams, 17 years of age, a wheeler employed in "E" tunnel of the Wallarah Colliery, Catherine Hill Bay, was fatally injured while at work…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Port Kembla. New Coal-loading Plant. Sydney
As announcement was recently made that Mr. Griffith, the Minister for Public Works, had accepted a tender for the erection of a modern plant for loading coal at Port…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Colliery Employees' Federation
Sir,—No doubt numbers of men who voted for affiliation with the Political Labour League and the establishment of a daily paper would have voted against…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Colliery Employees' Federation
Sir,—I notice Mr. Edden's statement that he would do all in his power to keep the masters' so-called vend together. I am pleased to know that we have one…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners' Wages
The following remarks on the amount of wages earned by English colliers will be read with interest. In this State, as well, too much is said about the miner…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mining in Victoria
Complaint was made at the meeting of the Ballarat (Victoria) Mining Board on Tuesday that the Mines Department, in its desire to encourage the coal industry,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal Cost of Sea Speed
One golden sovereign per minute is the approximate cost of/the coal that went into the Mauretania's hundred furnaces during her recent record round trip to…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Mining Matters. Position in the District
A meeting of the delegate board of the Colliery Employees' Federation will be held in the Trades Hall on Monday, when important business will be transacted. There…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Work at the Collieries
For the fortnight ended on Saturday three collieries in the Newcastle district worked full time, and six others in the Newcastle and Maitland districts worked…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Glebe Miners
The quarterly meeting of the Globe miners was held in Simpson's hall, Merewether, on Saturday evening. Mr. J. Lloyd presided, and there was a good…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Minmi Miners
The Back Creek and Duckenfield miners met in Peel's Hall Minmi, on Friday evening. There was a fair attendance, and Mr. W. Dove presided…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Mines Bill. London
In the House of Commons last evening the Mines Bill, introduced by Mr. Winston Churchill, the Secretary of State for Home Affairs, was read a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Mining Situation
Mr. Beeby, the State Minister for Labour, has made the statement that the impending Federal lawsuit in which colliery proprietors and others…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Whitburn Miners
The quarterly meeting of the Whitburn Miners' Lodge was held in Greta Park on Sunday morning. Mr. A. D. Jones, chairman, presided…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining Matters. Delegate Board
The delegate board of the Colliery Employees' Federation met yesterday, at the Trades Hall, Mr. D. Watson, the president, had been detained at Pelaw-Main on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining in France. Concessions Blocked. Paris
The Socialists in the Chamber of Deputies have prevented any new mining concessions being granted for three years…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Colliery Employees' Federation
Sir,—I am rather amused at the frantic splashing of ink indulged in by some of your correspondents on this question. With the exception of Mr. Williams and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Broken Hill Miners. Broken Hill
The referendum on the question of the Amalgamated Miners' Association signing the 4½ years' wages agreement with the mining and treatment companies,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mining Matters. Delegate Board
The delegate board of the Colliery Employees' Federation met again yesterday at the Trades Hall, Newcastle. Mr. D. Watson, president of the federation, was…
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