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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1920

1,650 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 15 of 83

Naval Coal Shipments

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 March 1920 · page 4

Another consignment of coal has come overseas to Newcastle for naval consumption. The coal on this occasion has travelled from Wales, and is being…

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Shortland Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 March 1920 · page 5

A meeting of the Shortland Colliery employees was held at the lodge-room yesterday, when matters bearing on the present stoppage of work were discussed…

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Colliery Disputes

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 March 1920 · page 5

Mr. C. M. M'Donald, secretary to the Northern Collieries' Association, with Messrs. Robinson and F. Croudace, mine managers, conferred yesterday at the…

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Riverina Coal

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 25 March 1920 · page 1

At the last meeting of Corowa Council, Alderman Thompson said he had been informed by the engineer of the Coorabin Coal Co. that the company…

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Dust in the Air of Mines

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 March 1920 · page 6

The United States Bureau of Mines, in co-operation with the United States Public Health Service, has begun a study of dusts from the Minmi, Arizona, copper…

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Industrial Discord. How the Coal Miners Foster It. No. 1

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 March 1920 · page 5

The industrial discord, which, all the world over, besets the coal mining Industry is pushing all human enterprise, and the workers generally, on to the brink of…

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Wallsend Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 March 1920 · page 4

The monthly meeting of the Wallsend Miners' Lodge was held in the Masonic Hall, Wallsend, on Wednesday evening Mr. R. Ready presiding…

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The Miners' Federation

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 March 1920 · page 6

Sir.—In reply to Mr. T. Johnson's letter re the Miners' Federation, I notice he has evaded my complaint by trying to make a wrong appear right, but in the eyes of a…

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Golf Coal Shipments

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 26 March 1920 · page 3

The Waratah Golf Club will open the 1920 season to-morrow, at 2 p.m., when an 18 holes open bogey competition for men, and an open…

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Importation of Welsh Coal. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 March 1920 · page 5

Mr. Watkins, in the House of Representatives, asked the Minister for the Navy why the department was importing large quantities of Welsh cool, and if it…

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British Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 March 1920 · page 7

The British miners' executive have had a five hours' conference with the Coal Controller. Later, Mr. Hodges described the…

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Mr. Humble and the Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 March 1920 · page 3

Sir,—Your news columns of Tuesday give a report of utterances of Mr. Humble, the ex-inspector of coal mines in an after-dinner speech at Wollongong to…

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New Appliances Coal in Melbourne

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 27 March 1920 · page 5

Steps in connection with the installation of coal-handling appliances on Melbourne's water front have reached such a stage that a conference was…

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Industrial Discord. Its Effect on Coal Production. No. 2

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 March 1920 · page 7

A general outline having been given in a previous article of the perpetual unrest and dislocation to which the Australian coal mining industry has been subjected,…

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Caledonian Collieries, Ltd

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 29 March 1920 · page 5

In moving the adoption of the directors' statement and balance-sheet at the seventh general sharheolders' meeting of the Caledonian Collieries Limited, held…

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Industrial Discord. What Coal Miners' Strikes Cost the Community. No. 3

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 29 March 1920 · page 5

Any attempt at either exact or approximate calculation of the total cost of a strike or a series of strikes to the community is foredoomed to failure…

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British Coal Miners. Another Conference. Settlement Expected. (Australian Cable Association.) LONDON

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 29 March 1920 · page 5

The latest report of the situation between the Government and the Miners' Federation is that the latter have agreed to accept the percentage basis in respect…

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Stealing Coal

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 29 March 1920 · page 4

Charles Arthur Pearson (17), laborer, was fined 20s, or seven days, before Mr. Gates, S.M., at the Newcastle Court to-day, for stealing coal…

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The Miners' Conference

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 29 March 1920 · page 5

One hundred and sixty-two delegates attended the miners' conference, at which Private Herbert Smith, who presided, complained of the tenor of Mr. Lloyd…

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Australian Industries. Use and Misuse of Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 29 March 1920 · page 6

"One of the outstanding lessons of the war is the need every country to be self-contained with regard to its essential requirement in materials and…

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