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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1911

1,195 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 27 of 60

Miners' Federation

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 1 June 1911 · page 7

Sir,—There is a question of some importance that has evidently passed unnoticed by the intelligent section of this federation, even the Socialists and…

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Mining Matters

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 1 June 1911 · page 6

A meeting of the delegate board of the Colliery Employees' Federation will be held at the Trades Hall, Newcastle, to-morrow…

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Miners' Accident Fund. Act to Be Amended. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 June 1911 · page 5

A bill to amend the Miners' Accident Relief Act will be introduced in the Assembly, by Mr. Edden, the Minister for Mines, next week. At the request of a…

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Elermore Vale Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 June 1911 · page 4

A meeting of the Elermore Vale Miners' Lodge was held in the Masonic Hall Wallsend, last week. The attendance was very good, and Mr. H. Hughes was to…

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Miners' Accident Fund

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 June 1911 · page 5

With respect to the brief outline of the chief provisions of the Miners' Accident Relief Act Amendment Bill, published in the "Newcastle Morning Herald"…

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Gold Discovery Jubilee

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 June 1911 · page 2

The jubilee of the discovery of gold at Gabriel's Gully, Otago, has just been celebrated in an interesting way. Every effort was taken to bring the old pioneers…

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Northern District Mines. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 June 1911 · page 5

The Government has decided to appoint Mr. Newverry, barrister, chairman of the Commission to inquire into the methods of working the coal seams in…

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Mining Matters. Delegate Board

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 June 1911 · page 5

A special meeting of the delegate board of the Colliery Employees' Federation was held at the Trades Hall, Newcastle, yesterday. Mr. D. Watson, president of…

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Gold in Alaska. a New Discovery. Vancouver

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 5 June 1911 · page 5

A rich strike of gold is repotted to have been made on Indian Creek Koyshuk River, in Alaska. Miners are stampeding for the…

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The Miners' Wage

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 June 1911 · page 4

The proposal that a system of weekly wage should be substituted for the present tonnage rate in the mining industry, which is now being…

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The Welsh Miners. Their Conduct Criticised. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 June 1911 · page 5

In a circular to the members of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain, Mr. Ashton, the secretary, animadverted on the rejection by the…

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Mining Matters. Pelaw-main Tops

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 June 1911 · page 4

The first meeting of the board of voluntary arbitration to decide the question of the payment for timbering in the working of top coal in Pelaw-Main Colliery, took…

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Colliery Employees' Federation

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 June 1911 · page 2

Sir.—Several writers have written at different times in our columns concerning the Colliery Employees' Federation, in relations to matters which are not, in…

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The Miners' Federation

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 June 1911 · page 2

Sir.—I have no particular desire to continue a useless correspondence with such an unreasonable extreme revolutionist as "Oakum's Razor," who believes the…

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Mining Matters. Coalmines Act

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 June 1911 · page 4

A conterence of delegates from the Northern, Southern, and Western coal miners' fewderations was held at the Trades Hall, Sydney, on Monday to…

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Whitburn Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 8 June 1911 · page 7

A special meeting of the Whitburn miners was held at Greta on Tuesday, Mr. A. D. Jones in the chair. The meeting wan called to receive a…

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State Gold Yield. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 8 June 1911 · page 4

The return furnished by the Under secretary for Miners shows that the gold yield recorded for this State for the month of May is 24,398 ounces crude…

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Fire on Block 10 Mine. Broken Hill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 8 June 1911 · page 5

A severs loss was sustained at the Block Brane this morning, when its big change issue was totally destroyed by fire. It is not known how the fire orignated…

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The Coal Vend. Hearing Resumed. Case for the Crown. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 8 June 1911 · page 5

The hearing of the Commonwealth prosecutions against what is known as the Coal Vend and the Steamship Companies was resumed before Mr. Justice Isaacs,…

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Mining Matters. the Teralba Position. Proposal to Resume Work

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 8 June 1911 · page 4

A combined meeting of the members of the Teralba lodges—Pacific, Northern Extended, Rhondda, and Northumberland —was held in Parry's Hall, Teralba,…

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