No Coal or Cement Melbourne Builders' Plight
Building operations in Melbourne are reported to be seriously hampered owing to the only two firms manufacturing cement within the State having…
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Mining & the mines, 1920
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Coal for Overseas the Eastern Trade Newcastle's Customers
With freights much higher than prewar rates, and shipping far from normal, there are still indications that Newcastle will in time regain most of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →2s a Week Where Rents Are Cheap Miners' Baths Sydney
Rents at Teralba are much cheaper than in Sydney. Out there houses are let at 2s a week, but they are miners' humpies of only two rooms…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mountain Slipping Kembla Colliery. SYDNEY
James Jarvle, manager of the Mount Kembla Colliery, surprised the Coal Commission today by declaring that the whole of the mountain side was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Commission. Conditions in the North. Sydney
The sittings of the Coal Commission were resumed at Parliament House to-day The Commissioner, Mr. Campbell, K.C. was assisted by Mr. J. A. Browne and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Not As Their Fathers Indifferent Miners Manager's Complaint SYDNEY
Giving evidence before the Coal Commission to-day, the manager of the Mount Kera and Coal cliff Colliery, Mr. J. C. Jones, said that the last…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →South Bulli Colliery
The South Bull Colliery, on the south coast, has not yet made a start this week. The trouble is over the allotment or…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Commission. Further Evidence. Sydney
The Coal Commission continued its sittings at Parliament House to-day. Mr. Campbell, K.C., the Commissioner, was assisted by Mr. J. A. Hooton. Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mine Manager's Burden How Strikes Start Sydney
The manager of a coal mine must either be continually at loggerheads with the employees—involving a stoppage at the least provocation—or he…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mines Department
Reference is made in the annual report of the Department of Mines to the retirement from the position of chief inspector of collieries of Mr. W. Humble…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →South Coast Miners
In the course of his annual report, Inspector Hindmarsh, of the South Coast district, refers to the fact that inflammable gas has been reported at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Miners' Accident Fund
During the year claims under the Miners' Accident Fund were admitted in respect to the deaths of two persons injured prior to June 30, 1917. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Northern Coal Seams
The following departmental statement shows the output of the northern district for 1919, divided into the quantities produced from the various coal seams, or…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Commission. South Coast Conditions. Sydney
The sittings of the Coal Commission were continued at Parliament House to-day. Mr. Campbell, K.C., Commissioner, was assisted by Mr. J. A. Browne and Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Rothbury Colliery
The Rothbury colliery, which has been idle since Monday last, owing to an injury to a portion of the machinery of the haulage gear, will resume work to-day,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Work at the Collieries
Trade has been brisk during the past fortnight and the working, times at the various collieries was generally good. In consequence of the Easter Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hebburn Miners
A special meeting of the Hebburn miners was held in the Olympia Hall on Thursday night, Mr. W. Wardle presiding. Mr. T. Hadfield, the lodge secretary,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Eight Hours' Work Necessary for Country Coal Owner's View Sydney
Dr. James Robertson, mining engineer, who is interested in several mines, to-day voiced his opinions before the Coal Commission. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal Mines Act
There were 134 coal mines and one shale mine working under the provisions of the Coal and Shale Mines Regulation Act during the past year, as compared with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Welsh Miners and Soviets
The Welsh miners ridicule the assertion that a Soviet regime has been prepared. Mr. George Barker remarked: "I wish it was…
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