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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1919

1,622 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 66 of 82

Work at the Collieries

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 20 October 1919 · page 5

Ten days constituted full time at the collieries of the Maitland and Newcastle districts for the fortnight, one day being lost owing to the aggregate meetings on…

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Colliery Workmen

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 October 1919 · page 5

The quarterly meeting of the Colliery Workmen's Mutual Protection Association was held in the Masonic Hall, Wallsend, on Thursday evening. The report and…

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Colliery Mechanics' Association

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 October 1919 · page 3

Sir,—I desire to deal with certain matters covered by reports supplied by officers of the Colliery Mechanics' Association, and also with letters on association…

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Scarborough Colliery Idle. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 October 1919 · page 5

Consequent upon a dispute between the management and the wheelers, no start was made at the Scarborough Colliery this morning. This is the second working day…

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Western Coal Trade. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 October 1919 · page 5

Satisfactory reports concerning the coal trade in the west are available. A Lithgow message states that practically the whole of the local pits worked full time…

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Industrial Matters. Colliery Mechanics

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 22 October 1919 · page 6

Mr. H. C. Morton, secretary to the Colliery Mechanics' Association, has received the following reply from the Northern Collieries' Association in reference to the…

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New Lambton Miners Three Days' Stoppage

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 22 October 1919 · page 5

The New Lambton miners' lodge has been idle for three days this week. It is the first stoppage for eight years. A meeting of the lodge will be held at…

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Cornish Disaster Mine Cage Collapses Forty Men Killed London, Tuesday Night

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 22 October 1919 · page 1

It is feared that 40 men were killed in a mine at Penzance, Cornwall, when an old-fashioned cage In which 100 men were descending collapsed…

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Lymington Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 23 October 1919 · page 5

Work will be resumed at Lymington Colliery, Cardiff, this morning. The mine has been idle for a week…

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Wallarah Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 23 October 1919 · page 5

A deal of dissatisfaction exists at the Wallarah Colliery, owing to the fact when the last increases of 20 per cent. were granted on May 5 the proper amount of…

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New Lambton Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 23 October 1919 · page 5

The stoppage at New Lambton Colliery will be considered at a meeting of the lodge to be held at Adamstown to-day. The stoppage is attributed to the…

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Industrial Matters. Colliery Mechanics

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 23 October 1919 · page 5

The refusal of the Colliery Proprietors' Association to alter the working conditions or classification of employees now existing at the collieries in the northern…

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New Lambton Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 23 October 1919 · page 2

The miners and top hands connected with the New Lambton Colliery ceased work on Monday on account of two members of the Mechanics' Union having been…

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British Coal Output

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 23 October 1919 · page 5

The "Labour Gazette," reviewing the coal output from week to week since June, shows that between August 23, when the coal strikes were over, and…

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Diamond Mining

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 23 October 1919 · page 5

Mr. Solly Joel and Mr. Jack Joel, partners in the firm of Barnato Brothers, are to be directors of a private company, which will be registered with a capital of…

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Coal Federation. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 23 October 1919 · page 5

An executive meeting of the Australian Coal and Shale Federation was held this afternoon. A number of matters are set down for consideration, and the meeting…

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Colliery Inspection

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 October 1919 · page 6

The check inspectors recently inspected "Shortland Colliery, and their report was as follows:—Main intake, 26,880 cubic feet per min.; main return, 34,200 feet per…

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Colliery Mechanics' Association

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 October 1919 · page 7

Sir,—In reply to a letter appearing in your paper on the 21st instant, signed by Mr. W. Waller, late secretary to the Colliery Mechanics Association, it is…

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Mining Disaster

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 October 1919 · page 5

It is feared that forty miners have lost their lives and many have been injured in the Levant Mine, near Penzance, owing to the collapse of the winding engine…

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Colliery Mechanics

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 October 1919 · page 8

Considerable interest is being manifested in the aggregate meetings of the colliery mechanics to be held at Weston and Newcastle on Monday, as many of…

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