Coal Trade Brisk Demand Exceeds Supply Interstate Needs
The coal trade of, the port, is exceptionally brisk. There is a heavy demand for bunkers, and difficulty is found in securing berths for steamers…
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Mining & the mines, 1920
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State Coal Mines
The State Coal Mines Act of 1912 empowers the Government to purchase or resume coal-bearing lands or coal mines and to open and work coal mines upon Crown…
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Pelaw Main and Northumberland No. 2 Collieries were idle yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →When Miners Were Serfs. Conditions in Scottish Mines
The collier's occupation is one of toil, danger, and hardship (Says a writer in the Glasgow "Herald"). These things are in the nature of the case inseparable…
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A deputation from the Miners' Federation will this afternoon meet Mr. Clark at the Wallsend Colliery office. Mr. D. Rees, deputy president of the federation,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Industrial Matters. Northern Collieries
Coal production in the northern district will cease to-morrow, and the whole of the collieries will discontinue until January 4. This arrangement was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Signalling Mine Hoists
In the course of an article published in the "Mining and Scientific Press" (U.S.A.), C. A. Allen says:— The problems of signalling to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Industrial Matters. Coal Mining Industry Compulsory Conference Called
Notice has been served upon the executive of the miners' Federation convening a conference in Sydney on Wednesday next. The full text of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners' Strike
On the Rhondda coalfields 45,000 miners went on strike as a protest against the dismissal of eleven colliers at Troeorchy, because their working places were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Victorian Miners
Mr. J. M. Baddeley, president of the Miners' Federation stated yesterday that the position, so far as the coal miners in Victoria were concerned, remained…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Safety Lamp Mines
A recent estimate shows that 48.5 per cent. of the total output of coal in New South Wales is obtained from collieries where miners use safety lamps. As the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal and Coke Compulsory Conference Interim Rates Asked
A compulsory conference will be held in Sydney on Wednesday to deal with the industrial position on the coal [?]ing industry…
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Work at the collieries in the Newcastle and Maitland fields ceased yesterday. There will be a general resumption on January 4…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Metalliferous Mining
The metalliferous mining industry of Australia is threatened with a serious crisis, especially copper mines. During the last few years there has…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Industrial Matters. Safety Lamp Mines. Statement by Mr. Lewis
Reference was made by Mr. A. Lewis, district ,treasrer to the Miners' Federation, to a statement published in the "Newcastle Morning Herald" yesterday,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal for New Zealand Railways Purchase
Recently the New zealand Railway Department purchased from the Comm[?] Government the coal which had been [?]ked on the Dyke…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Paved with Gold" Emigration to Dominions Old Fable Revived Bitter Hostility in Britain LONDON, Sunday Night
Evident apprehension that the Dominions will gain the cream of the population is responsible for the hostility towards the Premier's…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Coal Tribunal
The Coal Tribunal which is to meet to-morrow will presumedly deal with the question of placing the recent award on a legal footing as indicated…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Price of Lead South Hill Alarmed South Mine Stops Broken Hill
Mr. Fairweather, superintendent of the South mine, says that on account of the alarming drop in the price of lead and [?]ine and to give the board…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Train to Steel Works Colliery Line Owners "Not Opposed"
Acknowledging receipt of a letter conveying a resolutions asking that a passenger service be inaugurated over the Waratah colliery railway line to…
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