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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1919

1,622 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 43 of 82

The Touch of Midas Yankee Gold World Distribution LONDON, Thursday Night

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 27 June 1919 · page 1

"The Times" New York correspondent, cabling on June 15. said that the removal of the gold embargo makes New York the only free market…

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Industrial Matters. Colliery Troubles

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 June 1919 · page 7

Information has been received at the office of the Colliery Employees' Federation that trouble exists at the Glebe and Abermain No. 2 collieries regarding the…

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Coal Export

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 June 1919 · page 3

The coal shipments at Newcastle during the week for places beyond the State were only 16,857 tons, of which 150 tons went as bunkers to Victoria, 2500 tons as…

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Miners' Secretary Ill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 June 1919 · page 7

Mr. W. Brennan, secretary to the Colliery Employees' Federation, has been laid up at his home at West Maitland during the week, suffering from an attack…

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Nationalisation of Mines

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 June 1919 · page 7

The Conservative feeling against nationalisation is hardening. A deputation of members of the House of Commons will meet Mr. Lloyd George…

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New Zealand Government Mine

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 June 1919 · page 7

Mr. T. O. Bishop, representing the New Zealand Government, recently visited Newcastle to engage miners to work it the Dominion Government's coal mine…

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The Coal Commission. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 June 1919 · page 7

Mr. J. L. Campbell, K.C., the Coal Commissioner, was to-day further engaged investigating the exhibits submitted by various witnesses from the different coil…

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Mine-sweeping and Salvage Interesting Experiences

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 June 1919 · page 8

Mr. Edward C. Luxton has returned to Newcastle after having been at the war for four years. He was engaged it mine-sweeping from March, 1945, to June, 1917,…

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Britain's Coal Trade. Industrial System Wasteful

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 June 1919 · page 9

The other day Mr. Bonar Law, in reply to a question as to whether, "having record to the information respecting costs, uneconomical management, and profits…

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Loyalist Miners' Claim. Further Evidence. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 June 1919 · page 7

Further evidence was given to-day, before Mr. Justice Sly and a jury, in the action brought by Owen Alfred Stevens and Edward Charles Taylor, loyalist…

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Coal Control the Sankey Report London, Thursday Night

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 28 June 1919 · page 1

The minors' leaders hail with delight the reports of the Sankey labor delegates. The president (Mr. Smillie) states that the greatest landmark…

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Miners' House Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 30 June 1919 · page 3

Sir,—In our issue of the 27th instant. I notice that, under the heading of "Miners' House Coal," complaints have reached the Colliery Employees'…

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Work at the Collieries

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 30 June 1919 · page 5

The record of work of the collieries of the Newcastle and South Maitland districts for the fortnight ended on Saturday. Is a meagre one, due to the…

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Nationalisation of Mines

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 30 June 1919 · page 5

A number of members of the House of Commons have memoralised Mr. Lloyd George, emphatically denying that the evidence taken at the Coal Commission…

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German Coal Industry

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 30 June 1919 · page 6

The bill for the State regulation of the German coal industry only contains the outlines of the new scheme, the details being left to the German Government to…

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Oil From Cannel Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 30 June 1919 · page 5

In February, 1918, the Institution of Petroleum Technologists appointed a committee on "The Production of Oil from Cannel Coal and Allied Minerals"—to…

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Wireless to End Coal Age

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 30 June 1919 · page 6

The day may not be far distant when all our mechanical activities will be conducted without obvious sources of energy and without the aid of coal…

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Miners' House Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 1 July 1919 · page 6

Mr. A. Lewis, the treasurer of the Colliery Employees' Federation, writes:—In a letter in your issue of June 30, signed by Mr. J. Dawson, manager, are one or two…

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Loyalist Miners' Claim. Settlement Arrived At. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 1 July 1919 · page 5

A conclusion was reached to-day in the action before Mr. Justice Sly and a jury, in which Owen Alfred Stevens and Edward Charles Taylor, sued John Brown,…

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Unemployment in Collieries

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 July 1919 · page 5

In conversation yesterday several members of the Colliery Employees' Federation, speaking with regard to the present condition of the coal-mining industry,…

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