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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1917

1,758 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 22 of 88

Mining Agreements

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 March 1917 · page 4

The remarks made by Mr. Justice Edmunds, President of the Federal Coal Tribunal, concerning the observance of the orders of the Court should…

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Our New Zealand Letter Wellington, March 15. a Shortage of Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 March 1917 · page 13

A shortage of coal but that cannot be considered anything but grave is threatening New Zealand now. Our own mines never even in peace times, produced…

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Rhondda Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 26 March 1917 · page 7

Rhondda Colliery, which has been closed down for the past twelve months, will make a start this morning…

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Maitland Collieries. Nearly All Idle

Northern Times · Monday 26 March 1917 · page 1

The deputies are out of nearly all the South Maitland pits to-day. Pelaw Main Stanford-Merthyr Hebburn. Abermain No. 1 and 2. Neath, are…

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Maitland Collieries Idle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 March 1917 · page 4

With the exception of the Aberdare, Abordare Extended, Bellbird, Rothbury, and East Greta Collieries, the whole of the mines in the Maitland district coal…

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Must Join C.E.F. All Workers About Collieries. Hebburn Miners Emphatic

Northern Times · Tuesday 27 March 1917 · page 4

Hebburn miners held a meeting yesterday afternoon, after the Colliery Officials' Association meeting had ended, to consider the position brought about…

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Bellbird Colliery Cavil

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 March 1917 · page 4

The Bellbird Colliery was idle on Friday owing to trouble having occurred with respect to the cavil. The executive of the Colliery Employees' Federation got into…

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Hebburn Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 March 1917 · page 6

A general meeting of the members of the Hebburn Miners' Lodge was held in Hipwell's Stadium, Weston, yesterday. Mr. W. Wardle, who presided, and Mr…

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Mines Idle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 March 1917 · page 6

With the exception of Bellbird, Aberdare, and Aberdare Extended, all the mines on the Maitland field wer idle yesterday…

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Industrial Matters. Colliery Officials. Aggregate Meeting at Weston

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 March 1917 · page 4

The colliery officials of the South Maitland district held an aggregate meeting in the Olympia Hall, Weston, yesterday. Every part of the field was represented…

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Tramway Clerk Mining

Northern Times · Tuesday 27 March 1917 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Detectives are endeavouring to trace the where-amounts of Albert Edward M'Cann, shorthand writer and typist in the…

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Queensland Mining. Output for 1916

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 March 1917 · page 5

The report of Mr. H. Marshall, the Queensland Under-Secretary for Mines, giving a resume of the mining industry of the State for last year, shows that, as…

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North Wallarah Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 March 1917 · page 7

A dispute at the North Wallarah Colliery, Catherine Hill Bay, was the cause of a stoppage there yesterday. Mr. Badeley, president of the C.E.F., visited the…

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Industrial Matters. Colliery Differences

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 March 1917 · page 7

Certain differences that have arisen in regard to a number of district collieries were yesterday the subject of a conference between the owning employers and…

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Colliery Workers. One Union Desired

Northern Times · Wednesday 28 March 1917 · page 5

To-night at the Newcastle Trades' Hall a conference will be held between representatives of the Coal Officials' Association and the executive…

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Miners and Tuberculosis

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 March 1917 · page 8

Dr. W. A. Lynott, of the United States Bureau of Mines, in a paper on "Bureau of Mines' Studies of Occupational Discases," read before the Division of…

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Pelaw-main Colliery. Federal Tribunal Award

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 March 1917 · page 5

The award of the Pelaw Main Board has been gazetted. The Board, which was appointed under the War Precautions Act to investigate…

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Maitland District. Fire at Aberdare Colliery. Affected Area Sealed Off

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 March 1917 · page 8

Shortly after seven o'clock on Monday evening the startling discovery was made that portion of the workings of the Caledonian Company's Aberdare Colliery at…

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North Wallarah Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 29 March 1917 · page 4

The dispute which arose at the North Wallarah Colliery. Catherine Hill Bay, has been adjusted, as the result of the interview between the manager, Mr…

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Maitland District. Aberdare Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 29 March 1917 · page 6

Work was resumed at the Aberdare Colliery yesterday morning, following upon the cessation of operations on Tuesday in consequence of the fire which…

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