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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1915

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Mining Matters. Oil Shale in Queensland

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 30 September 1915 · page 6

By means of a bore, samples of oil shale have been taken out at Lowmead, in the Battle Creek district, Central Queensland, for the purpose of securing a…

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Acetylene Mine Lighting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 October 1915 · page 6

At the seventeenth annual session of the American Mine Congress, Mr. A. Creesy Morrison read a lengthy paper on the use of acetyione as an illuminant in…

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Tasmanian Coal Trade

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 October 1915 · page 5

Discussing the negotiations that proceeded Mr. Justice Higigas' summoning of the compulsory conference with mine proprietaries and miners, Mr. David Ritchie,…

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Notes for Gold

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 October 1915 · page 6

There many have been some little prejudice against the. Treasury pound and ten-shilling notes when they wore first introduced, but it has long since…

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Mining Matters. Compulsory Conference. Parties to Consult Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 October 1915 · page 5

The compulsory conference convened by Mr. Justice Higgins set to-day in connection with the dispute to in the coalmining industry throughout Now South…

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The Welsh Miners. Will Not Go on Strike. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 4 October 1915 · page 5

Fifteen thousand Welsh miners have decided not to strike, and have accepted the Federation's recommendation to continue at work pending an inquiry into…

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Dudley Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 October 1915 · page 4

Early last week a dispute between management and a section of the employees, chiefly wheelers and off-hand labour concerning questions of payment, caused…

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Mining Matters. the Compulsory Conference

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 October 1915 · page 4

The compulsory conference between representatives of the Australian Coal and Shale Employees Federation and the mine proprietaries convened by Mr…

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Coal at Ipswich. Brisbane

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 October 1915 · page 6

Mr. Hamllton, the Minister for Mines, to-day stated that about fifty years ago 218 acres Wore proclaimed an a racing reserve, in what is now the centre of the…

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British Coal Export. Restricting Order. ("Shipping Gazette" (Lon.), August 13.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 October 1915 · page 4

To-day there comes into operation the new coal export regulation of the Government, which makes it obligatory for merchants to take out a license for every…

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Mining Matters. the Compulsory Conference

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 7 October 1915 · page 6

The sectional compulsory conference between representatives of the Northern Colliery proprietors and the Australian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation,…

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The Ipswich Coal Seams. Brisbane

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 October 1915 · page 5

Complications are likely to arise in connection with the proposed State coal mine at Ipswich, as some owners of the allotments under which the coal seam exists…

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Mining Matters. Greta Railway Awards. Suspension Granted. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 October 1915 · page 5

Application was made to-day to Mr. Justice Heydon, President of the Industrial Arbitration Court, on behalf of the East Greta, Coalmining Company, for the…

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Around Holmesville. Mining Townships

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 October 1915 · page 6

Although Holmesville, Barnsley and Esteville which he to the cast of West Wallsend are distinct townships, they have many sympathies and interests in…

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Miners' Hours of Work London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 October 1915 · page 5

At a private conference of the Miners Federation at Nottingham, the resolution passed by the Lancashire and Cheshire Foderations that work in the mines should…

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Mining Matters. No Suspension of Work

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 October 1915 · page 5

Following upon the request of Mr. Justice Higgins that the representatives of the Colliery Employees Federation and the Colliery propritors should meet and…

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Run Over by Coal Train

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 October 1915 · page 5

Mr. C. Hibble, the District Coroner, held an inquest at the Newcastle Courthouse, yesterday, into the death of Horace Wenban, who was run over by a coal train on…

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Mineral Mining Case. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 October 1915 · page 5

The hearing of the case of the Federated Mining Employees' Association of Australia against the mineral mining companies in Victoria, New South Wales,…

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Mining Matters. the Delegate Board

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 13 October 1915 · page 8

A special meeting of the Colliery Employees Federation Delegate Board was held at the Trades Hall, Newcastle, yesterday. There was a full attendance of…

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Glebe Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 October 1915 · page 3

The quarterly, meeting of the Globe Miners' Lodge was hold in Thoms' Hotel. Merewether, on Tuesday evening. There was a good attendance, and Mr. James…

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