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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1919

1,622 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 23 of 82

Miners' Conditions

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 April 1919 · page 7

Sir,—Mr. Biggers says I seem to be greatly upset about his previous letter. I would like to inform him that I am not, I having got quite used to his…

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Miners Considering SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 17 April 1919 · page 5

The council of the Australasian Coal and Shale Federation was still discussing the new development in the position at four o'clock this…

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The Loyalist Miners Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 April 1919 · page 5

A deputation, representing the loyalist miners, waited on Mr. Lawson, the State Premier, to urge special treatment on their behalf. Senator Plain said that 10s…

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Coal Lease Dispute Jesmond Mme at Stake the Holder Wins

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 17 April 1919 · page 5

Mr C. F. Ruter presided at the Warden's Court at Newcastle tod-ay when a matter of some interest to persons pro[?] of developing…

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Another Hitch (Continued from page 5) "Will Go Right On" Miners' Ballot

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 17 April 1919 · page 4

Mr. Amran Lewis, treasurer of the Colliory Employees' Federation said this afternoon: If the report be correct the action…

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The Coal Conference. Further Adjournment. Statement by Mr. Baddeley. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 April 1919 · page 4

The conference between the representatives of the Australian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation and the coal owners in connection with the agreement…

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The Inquiry Coal Owners' View What It Will Show SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 17 April 1919 · page 4

In the course of a letter to The Sydney Sun" to-day Mr. R. W. Gibbs, of Gibbs, Bright and Co. says:— I feel sure that the Government…

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Greta. Old Greta Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 April 1919 · page 3

News of the intended reopening of the Old Greta Colliery by the proprietors of the Central Greta Colliery has been received with general appreciation on all…

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State Mining Industry

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 April 1919 · page 2

The official report of the mining production of New South Wales during the past year is chiefly interesting in that it shows that notwithstanding the…

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Victoria's Coal Supply Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 April 1919 · page 3

Sir William Clarkson, the Controller of Shipping, states as the coal position had greatly improved with the withdrawal of the quarantine embargo in New South…

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Industrial Matters. Coal Federation Meeting. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 April 1919 · page 2

The council of the Australasian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation met to-day and considered several items of business…

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Strikes in Coal Mines

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 April 1919 · page 4

Two of the coal mines on the West Coast are at present idle owing to a dispute with the face men in the pits as to trucking. The question involved seems to be…

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Coal Export

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 April 1919 · page 5

The quantity of coal shipped at Newcastle during the week for places beyond the State was 72,045 tons, all of which went to Commonwealth and New Zealand…

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The Cost of Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 April 1919 · page 3

Sir,—"Taxed," like many others, considers that the high price of coal is due to the abnormal wages paid to the miner. Wherever a miner has made an abnormal…

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Coal for the South

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 19 April 1919 · page 4

The amendment in the Interstate quarantine regulations has obviously been made with the object of increasing the shipments of coal to Victoria and South Australia. It was said that considerable delays and apparent waste of time accrued from the system of four days' intervals from port…

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Northern Coal Seams. Vast Resources

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 April 1919 · page 8

In his presidential address, delivered at the opening meeting of the 1919 session of the Northern Engineering Institute. Mr. Richard Thomas made an interesting…

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Coal and Oil Storage. Methods in America

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 April 1919 · page 3

Mr. W. H. Homer. engineer to the Auckland (N.Z.) Harbour Board, recently returned from the United States, which country he visited on behalf of the board…

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Work at the Collieries

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 21 April 1919 · page 5

Owing to the holidays a full return of the number of days worked at the collieries of the Newcastle and South Maitland coalfields for the past fortnight was…

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Blatchford and Miners

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 21 April 1919 · page 2

Robert Blachford once went down into a coal mine in the North of England. In a little book called "Fantasias," printed over twenty years ago…

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Coal Inquiry Starts To-morrow

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 21 April 1919 · page 5

The order of evidence before the Coal Commission will not be definitely settled until to-morrow, when the Commission will open its sittings in…

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