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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1913

1,085 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 14 of 55

South Coast Miners. Majority on Strike. Wollongong

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 18 March 1913 · page 5

This morning the miners only went to work at Mount Kembla and Mount Keira, all the other mines to Helensburgh being idle…

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Southern Colliery Trouble

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 19 March 1913 · page 4

While there will be much sympathy with the principle underlying the stoppage of work at the southern collieries, it must, nevertheless, be held…

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Mining Situation. Position in Newcastle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 19 March 1913 · page 4

No deveolopments took place in regard to the mining situation yesterday, but the outcome of the adjourned delegate board meeting, to be held to-day, will…

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Broxburn Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 March 1913 · page 5

The question of starting and knocking off Work which arose at the Broxburn mine at the commencement of the year, and which was submitted for arbitration…

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Lambton B Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 March 1913 · page 5

No settlement has yet been reached in regard to the dispute at the Lambton B Colliery. The conference between the representatives of the proprietors and the…

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Mining Situation. Position in Newcastle. Delegate Board Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 March 1913 · page 5

Whether the coalmining industry in the Newcastle district is to run smoothly or not still remains in the balance. The delegate board of the Colliery Employees'…

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Mining Situation. Delegate Board Meeting. Minmi Lodge Dealt With

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 March 1913 · page 5

The delegate board of the Colliery Employees Federation sat again yesterday, resuming at tea o'clock and continuing until shortly after four in the afternoon…

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Chemistry and Coal-mining

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 March 1913 · page 4

A lecture was delivered by Dr. John Targer before the Liverpool section of the Society of Chemical Industry, on "Chemistry as applied to Coal Mining."…

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Slaves of the Mine

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 March 1913 · page 16

One of the causes that tended to increase the commercial importance of Scotland from the second half of the 16th century onwards was the rapid…

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A Gold Medallist

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 March 1913 · page 5

Mr. Reginald Blomfield, A.R.A., who has been selected by the Royal Institute of British Architects as the recipient of the Royal Gold Medal this year, was born…

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Kent Coal. Visit to the Workings

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 March 1913 · page 14

"Coal from Kent? Impessible!" Even to-day one still hears reiterated this remark by would-be sapient individuals who are unable to believe that coal…

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Mining Situation. the Southern Strike. Wollongong

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 24 March 1913 · page 4

The reply of the Southern Collie[?] Proprietors to the proposals of the[?] Association for a settlement of [?] present difficulty, in which the form[?]…

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Germany's Tower of Gold

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 March 1913 · page 7

Even the modern burglar, with his oxyacetyiene gas would find some difficulty in getting at the Franco-German war indemnity stored up in the Julius Tower of…

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Stockton-borehole Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 26 March 1913 · page 5

Messrs. E. Peters and A. Lewis, acting president and treasurer respectively of the Colliery Employees" Federation, visited the Stockton-Borehole Colliery on…

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Miners and Politics

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 26 March 1913 · page 5

Compulsory payment of political levies in Victoria having been discarded by the Federated Mining Employees' Association, a further effort is being made by the…

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Mining Situation. No New Development

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 26 March 1913 · page 5

Owing to the intervention of the Easter holidays, no development is regard to the mining situation has taken place during the past few days…

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Mining Matters. Lambton B Conference

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 27 March 1913 · page 5

Nothing happened yesterday to affect in any way the general mining situation, and it is not anticipated that any development will take place until the various…

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Lambton B Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 28 March 1913 · page 5

Owing to the failure of the conference on Wednesday between representatives of the Lambton B Miners' Lodge and of the proprictors, it was uncertain whether…

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Lambton Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 28 March 1913 · page 5

The quarterly meeting of the Lambton Miners' Lodge was held on Wednesday evening in Byrne's Commercial Hotel, Mr. James Morgan presided…

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Victorian State Mine

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 28 March 1913 · page 5

Work in the Victoria State mine at Wonthaggl has been resumed. The men are now in the places they drew in the cavil last week. For a time at least all…

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