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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1914

937 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 22 of 47

Hebburn Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 30 May 1914 · page 5

Huddart, Parker, Limited, who recently, secured a very large interest in Hebburn Colliery will operate with the A. A. Company in the control of the property, but…

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Hetton Colliery Idle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 30 May 1914 · page 5

The Hetton Colliery was idle yesterday as a consequence of dissatisfaction amongst the wheelers. A couple of the wheeler were dismissed, and their…

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Victorian State Mine. Development of Powlett

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 30 May 1914 · page 2

Five years ago the locality on which the township of Wonthaggi now stands was a wind-swept, undulating plain, interspersed with marshy watercourses and…

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Price of Coal. Increase in Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 30 May 1914 · page 4

Five of the lending six firms in the wholesale coal trade in Melbourne have increased their rates during the present month, and the increase, which…

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Barrier Miners' Complaints. Commission Appointed. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 30 May 1914 · page 5

Mr. Cann, the Minister for Mines, stated to-day that the Government decided to appoint a Royal Commission to inquire into the whole of the mining industry on the…

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Mining Matters. Afternoon Shift. Royal Commission Meets

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 30 May 1914 · page 5

The Royal Commission, which has been appointed by the Government to further consider matters concerning the coal trade of the Northern district, especially…

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Hetton Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 1 June 1914 · page 5

The position at Hetton Colliery, which was thrown idle on Friday owing to dissatisfaction amongst the wheelers, on account of the dismissal of two of their…

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World's Coal Resources

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 1 June 1914 · page 5

In a paper read before the Australasian Institute of Mining Engineers, in Melbourne this week, Mr. G. H. Broome, manager of the State coalmines at…

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South Coast Miners. Wollongong

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 1 June 1914 · page 5

A meeting of the South Coast Miners' Union was held to-day, when delegates were present from all the miners' lodges, and a number of important matters were…

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The Mining Situation

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 1 June 1914 · page 4

The position brought about on the northern coalfields by the refusal of the second shift men to work is certain to become accentuated this week…

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Gas Explosion. the Silkestone Colliery. Eleven Men Killed. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 1 June 1914 · page 5

A gas explosion occurred in the Silkestone Colliery, at Wharncliffe, yesterday afternoon, when eleven men were killed…

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Mining Matters. the Afternoon Shift. Managers Give Notice

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 1 June 1914 · page 5

There are no developments to report, so far as the men are concerned, but the managers of several collieries have formally notified lodge secretaries that unless…

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Coal Mines Nationalisation

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 2 June 1914 · page 4

"There is still unlimited scope for the development of coal mining in the northern district," remarked Mr. D. Watson, president of the Colliery Employees'…

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Mining Matters. the Afternoon Shift. Collieries to Stop Work

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 2 June 1914 · page 4

The whistle was blown for "no work" at Hebburn Colliery last evening, which means that there will be no work for the day shift this morning, or any other…

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Hetton Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 2 June 1914 · page 4

The position at Hetton Colliery, which was thrown idle on Friday, owing to the trouble amongst the wheelers an account Of the dismissal of two of their number,…

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Colliery Mechanics. Application for New Award

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 2 June 1914 · page 4

The Coalmining (North) Group, No. 2 (Colliery Mechanics) Wages Board, at the Newcastle Courthouse yesterday opened the hearing of an application by…

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Silkestone Colliery. the Deadly After Damp. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 2 June 1914 · page 5

A survivor of the disaster at the Silkestone Colliery, at Whancliffe, named Maycock, states that while boring with others in a byway he was…

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Greta Collieries

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 3 June 1914 · page 5

Owing to the miners not turning up for work on the afternoon shift on Monday at the Whitburn Colliery, the mine has been shut down. No meetings have been…

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The Afternoon Shift. Collieries Stand Idle. Neither Side Takes Action

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 3 June 1914 · page 5

Aberdare, Aberdare Extended, Abermain No. 1, Neath, South Greta, Central Greta, Broxburn, and Rothbury were the only collieries working yesterday on the…

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The Mining Trouble

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 3 June 1914 · page 4

The stoppage of work at the collieries at which the afternoon shift was in operation in consequence of the miners declining to continua…

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