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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1919

1,622 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 70 of 82

Caledonian Colliery Idle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 November 1919 · page 5

The four collieries of the Caledonian Company—Aberdare Extended, Aberdare, Aberdare Central, and Aberdare South—continued idle yesterday. About 1600…

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Wallsend Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 November 1919 · page 4

Mr. R. Reay presided at the meeting of the Wallsend miners in the Masonic Hall, Wallsend, on Wednesday evening. The secretary reported having sent a…

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Colliery Mechanics' Claims. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 November 1919 · page 5

No settlement was effected at to-day's conference between the representatives of the mechanics and the employers, but the latter will give their decision on Monday…

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Paris Coal Shortage

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 November 1919 · page 5

Reports from Paris state that the city is suffering from a terrible coal shortage. Many of the schools are without fire, and people are trying to heat shops and…

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Meetings of Miners' Lodges

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 November 1919 · page 5

A combined meeting, consisting of` Wallsend, Ellermore Vale Nos. 1 and 2, and Glamorgan Miners' Lodges, was held in the Masonic Hall, Wallsend, last night…

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Industrial Matters. the Newcastle Mines

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 November 1919 · page 5

At a number of the mines in the lower district there is acute slackness of work, and an effort is to be made to remedy this by securing a more equal distribution of…

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Collieries Idle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 November 1919 · page 7

The dispute between the Caledonian Collieries, Ltd., and the employees of the Aberdare Extended Colliery, is still un-settler, and the company's collieries in…

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Lambton Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 November 1919 · page 7

A meeting of the Lambton miners was held yesterday. Mr. J. Morgan occupied the chair, and gave a lengthy report of the interview with Mr. Robinson,…

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Colliery Mechanics' Delegate Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 November 1919 · page 5

Sir,—In reference to the aggregate meeting of colliery mechanics' unions, held at Weston on the 27th ult., I was surprised at the president closing the…

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Industrial Matters. Colliery Mechanics

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 November 1919 · page 7

The conference held in Sydney on Thursday, between representatives of the Colliery Proprietors' and Colliery Mechanics' Associations, is not regarded in…

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West Wallsend Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 November 1919 · page 7

Mr. Baddeley the district president of the Miners' Federation, will attend a meeting of the colliery employees at West Wallsend to-day…

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To Banish Coal

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

Finding a cheap and effective substitute for coal is to be the first big task of the James Watt School of Research. Among the preliminary conclusions of…

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Mining Education

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 8 November 1919 · page 8

A Junior technical school in connection with the Ballarat School of Mines will be shortly built on the site of portion of the Ballarat gaol and…

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Mine Explosives No Increase Expected

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 8 November 1919 · page 1

In the Assembly on Thursday, Mr. Davies, among other things, asked whether it was a fact that colliery proprietors intended increasing the…

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Coal-mining Methods

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 10 November 1919 · page 5

Sir Charles Wade, the Agent-General for New South Wales, visited several Yorkshire coal mines, and investigated methods of handling the output. His is…

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British Coal Supplies

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 10 November 1919 · page 5

At a meeting of meat importers of Great Britain it was stated that the food control system had not checked the menace of high prices for meat. It had…

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American Coal Strike

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 10 November 1919 · page 5

A Washington message says the Cabinet has refused to annul the injunction which affects the position of coal miners on strike…

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Coal Tenders Commonwealth Ships

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 10 November 1919 · page 4

The manager of the Commonwealth line of steamers, last week called for tenders for the supply of bunker coal to vessels of that line at Melbourne…

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Wolgan Shale Miners. Lithgow

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 10 November 1919 · page 5

Operations at the Wolgan shale mines have again been suspended, and the impression is that it will be some time before there is a resumption. Owing to…

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Goldfields Trouble. Perth

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 10 November 1919 · page 5

There have been no important developments in connection with the mines industrial trouble, which has occurred during the last two days. A meeting of the…

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