Was It Gas? Colliery Fatality
At the Maitland District Court to-day Marion Potter (16), Georgia Potter (13), by their friend. George Doble, claimed £500 as compensation from…
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Mining & the mines, 1919
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Miners' Income Tax
The South Wales Miners' Federation has reasserted its determination not to pay income tax on incomes under £250. It rejected the executive's proposals, in…
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The recent advance in the price of tin has caused a revival in this particular class of mining throughout the New England district. Before the…
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Giving evidence at Johannesburg, before the Low Grade Mines Commission, regarding coal, Mr. Pritchard, Director of Native Labour, uttered a grave warning…
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In the District Court to-day at Maitland, before Judge Hamilton, Annie Maud D. Watson, on behalf of herself and four children claimed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wallsend Miners
A special meeting of the Wallsend, miners was held in the Masonic Hall or Thursday evening. Mr. J. Frew, presided. The committee reported that a com…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hebburn Miners
At a meeting of the Hebburn miners, presided over by Mr. W. Wardell, the matter of the return to work of returned soldiers was dealt with on a report from…
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A conference between representatives of the owners of Richmond-Main Colliery and the Miners' Federation will be held at the rooms of the Northern Collieries'…
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A meeting of the members or the Stanford-Merthyr Miners' Lodge will be held tomorrow. The tribunal which was appointed to investigate the claims for…
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An enormous step forward is indicated by the report of the chairman of the Coal Commission in favour of the nationalisation of the coal mines. It is an…
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WELLINGTON (N.Z.). Saturday. It is reported that the miners at Kaitangaia have been advised to go slow from Monday next. It is under…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gold Find in Canada
The correspondent of the "New York Times" reports that a gold claim has been struck near the Copper Lake, in Manitoba…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Our London Letter. London, June 28. Signing of the Treaty.—the Coal Commission Report.—control of Food.—sinking of German Fleet. Signing of Peace Treaty
At last the work of the Peace Conference, which at one time appeared to be in some danger of being almost as long drawn out as the war, may fairly be said…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lambton Miners
A meeting of the Lambton miners, presided over by Mr. James Morgan, was held in Tiplady's Hall on Friday evening. The delegate (Mr. E. Hommings) read and…
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A telegram from Geneva states that the "Neue Frei Volkszeitung," of Munich, says that although the German miners' working day is the shortest on the…
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In consequence of the starvation wages paid to Welsh Nonconformist ministers many of them are seeking were in collieries and steel and…
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The coal mines dispute has advanced one stage further, and the further stage has been an appeal to the Government by the body with which the miners are…
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Operations at the Newcastle cranes yesterday commenced at the usual hour. Seven vessels worked on until two o'clock morning, Two steamers completed loading…
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Frank H. Probert, consulting engineer of the U. S Bureau of Mines, and dean of the College of Mining, University of California, member of a special American…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Proposed National Mining Council
The British National Mining Council is to be formed of members elected by the district councils, one member being given to each for every 5,000,000 tons of output,…
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