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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1916

1,027 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 16 of 52

Wallsend Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 July 1916 · page 6

A meeting of the Wallsend miners was field at the Masonic Hall on Wednesday evening. Mr. T. Richardson presiding. Appeals on behalf of members were read…

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Colliery Mechanics. Work to Be Resumed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 July 1916 · page 5

An aggregate meeting of the Colliery Mechanics' Association was held in the Church-street Skating Rink, yesterday afternoon, when Mr. J. Dobie, the…

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The Mining Difficulty

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 July 1916 · page 4

The general quietness which characterised the meetings in the Newcastle and Maitland districts yesterday to voice the views of the miners affords…

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Miners' Eight Hours Aggregate Meetings. at Lambton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 July 1916 · page 7

The meeting in the Lambton Park was attended by about 400 members of the federation. Mr. D. Rees presided, and the gathering was an intently interested one, and of a quiet…

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Mount Pleasant Mine

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 July 1916 · page 4

The Mount Pleasant mine was idle on Tuesday, owing to a dispute upon a deficiency claim…

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Maitland District. Colliery Mechanics. Conference Opened

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 July 1916 · page 6

The conference between representative of the Colliery Proprietors' Association and the Colliery Mechanics Association was opened at the…

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Coal Shipping. Widening the Dyke Wharf

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 July 1916 · page 2

Steady progress continues to be made with the widening of the wharf at Bullock Island, on the Dyke side, and as the work has now reached the vicinity of the…

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Coal for Victorian Railways. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 July 1916 · page 6

The Victorian Government has entered into a contract with the Lithgow Collieries Association of New South Wales for the supply of 100,000 tons of coal, to be…

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Mining Matters. the Aggregate Meetings

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 July 1916 · page 4

Mr. J. Baddeley, president, and Mr. A. Lewis, treasurer, of the Colliery Employees' Federation, have been in Sydney and the western districts during the week,…

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Mining Matters. Colliery Officials' Board

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 24 July 1916 · page 6

Evidence in connection with the claims of the Newcastle District Deputies and Shotfirers' Association was resumed by the No. 1 Group Coal lining (North of…

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Gaseous Mines

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 24 July 1916 · page 6

Mr. J. M. Baddeley, the president of the Colliery Employees Federation, said yesterday: "Through pressure of time I had not the opportunity to consider a…

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Colliery Officials. Question of Amalgamation

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 July 1916 · page 4

After the hearing of evidence of the claims set before the No. 1 Coal Mining Board for deputies, shot-firers, and waste examiners of the Newcastle district on…

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Colliery Mechanics. Conference Resumes To-day

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 July 1916 · page 4

The conference between representatives of the Colliery Proprietors' Association, and of the Colliery Mechanics' Association, was resumed at the proprietors' office,…

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Victorian State Mine. Engine-drivers' Trouble

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 July 1916 · page 4

The following comment on the strike of engine-drivers and firemen at the State coal mine at Wonthaggi has been made by the Railway Commissioners…

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Colliery Officials' Award. Judgement in Appeal Case. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 July 1916 · page 4

Mr. Justice Edmunds delivered his reserved judgment in the Industrial Court to-day in the appeal by the Colliery Proprietors and the cross appeal by the…

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Wongawilli Mine

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 26 July 1916 · page 9

Messrs. Hoskins and Sons are reported to have under consideration a project to spend the sum of a quarter of a million pounds on the development of the…

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Victorian State Mine

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 26 July 1916 · page 9

The dispute between the members of the Engine Drivers' Association and the manager of the Victorian State Colliery is unsettled. Some of the mine officials…

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Alcohol and Miners' Phthisis

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 26 July 1916 · page 8

In the course of their evidence before the Select Committee on Miners' Phthisis, Dr. Watkins-Pitchford and Dr. Aitken, the medical superintendent of the…

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Maitland District. Colliery Mechanics. Proprietors' Terms. General Increases

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 26 July 1916 · page 8

The conference between representatives of the Colliery Proprietors' Association and the Colliery Mechanics' Association was concluded, yesterday, at the…

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Working in Gaseous Mines. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 26 July 1916 · page 9

The statement made by Mr. Baddeley, president of the Colliery Employees' Federation, published in yesterday's issue of the "Newcastle Morning Herald,"…

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