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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1916

1,027 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 43 of 52

Mining Matters. Selling Price of Coal. a Conference To-day. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 December 1916 · page 4

The assessors, Messrs. Harle, Clark and Sellers, representing the employers, and Messrs. Buddeley, Phillips, and Duncombe, representing the employees, sat…

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South Wales Miners. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 December 1916 · page 5

The South Wales Miners' representatives have passed a resolution reiterating their demand for a 15 per cent. advance, and protesting that the Government…

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Waiting for Coal. Inconvenience to Shipping

Northern Times · Saturday 2 December 1916 · page 6

A reply had not been received this morning by the Newcastle Chamber of Commerce to the telegram sent yesterday asking that the naval…

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Embargo on Coal Stocks. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 December 1916 · page 4

In the House of Representatives to-day, Mr. Watkins (N.S.W.) asked it, in view of the coal difficulty being settled, the Government would withdraw the…

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Victorian State Mine. a Year's Operations. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 December 1916 · page 5

In the annual report of the general manager, Mr. Broome, of the State mine, which has been presented to Parliament it is stated that, after paying…

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Circular to Mining Lodges. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 December 1916 · page 4

Mr. A. C. Willis, general secretary of the Australasian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation, to-day sent out a circular to the secretaries of the various…

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Collieries Working

Northern Times · Monday 4 December 1916 · page 6

On Inquiry at the various shipping Agents for the collieries in the Newcastle district, this morning. It was learned that practically every colliery…

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Wallsend Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 4 December 1916 · page 4

Meetings of the Elermore Vale and Wallsend miners Were held on Saturday, at which the official circular form the district secretary, conveying the…

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Death of Mr. John MacKenzie. Coal Mining Identity

Northern Times · Monday 4 December 1916 · page 5

The death occurred this morning of Mr. John MacKenzie. F.G.S., who was for very many yours examiner of coal mines in the State…

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Rothbury Miners

Northern Times · Monday 4 December 1916 · page 4

At the monthly meeting of the Rothbury miners, held on Friday, the following members were nominated to held office for the ensuing…

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Colliery Mechanics. Trouble at Hexham

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 4 December 1916 · page 6

Mr. W. Waller, secretary to the Colliery Mechanics' Association, was advised yesterday that about 70 members of his association, at Hexham, employees of…

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Mining Matters. the Coal Conference. Hitch at Lithgow Removed. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 4 December 1916 · page 4

Mr. Justice Edmunds and the assessors sat in camera yesterday morning and considered various natters relating to the recent difficulty in the coal trade. At the…

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Welsh Miners Advance. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 4 December 1916 · page 5

The Government has granted the Welsh miners an advance of 15 per cent…

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Mines in Operation. Sydney

Northern Times · Monday 4 December 1916 · page 6

Advices from the coalfields snow that all too Lithgow mines are working, but in the south only Mount Pleasant, Kiera and Corrimal mines…

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Coal Settlement. Cessnock Difficulty. Satisfactory Arrangements

Northern Times · Monday 4 December 1916 · page 6

The threatened miscarriage of arrangements for resuming work in the Cessnock district, which developed on Saturday morning, was averted by the…

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New Zealand Miners. Wellington (N.z.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 4 December 1916 · page 4

Yesterday the Paparoa miners at Roa ceased work out of sympathy with the Blackball miners. There is also a dispute regarding pillar workings. The…

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All Collieries Resume

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 December 1916 · page 5

Mr. W. Brennan, secretary to the Colliery Employees' Federation, stated last night that so far as he knew, all the collieries resumed work yesterday morning,…

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Colliery Mechanics

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 December 1916 · page 5

In the "Newcastle Morning Herald" yesterday a statement was made by Mr. W. Waller, secretary of the Colliery Mechanics' Association, to the effect that…

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Mine Locomotive's Vagaries

Northern Times · Tuesday 5 December 1916 · page 5

A train leaves the Abermain No. 1 pit each morning to curry miners to No. 2 pit. When all was in readiness to start yesterday, the engine…

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Coal for Sydney

Northern Times · Tuesday 5 December 1916 · page 6

Messrs J. and A. Brown's well known colliers, the Alice and the Pe-law-Main, are in commission again and have resumed their running. The…

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