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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1921

2,096 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 76 of 105

Teralba Coal Seams

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 September 1921 · page 5

James Moth Morris, who was represented by Mr. A. F. Hall, made two applications to Mr. W. Le Brun Brown, the Warden, at the Newcastle Courthouse,…

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The Mount Mulligan Mine

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 September 1921 · page 5

The coal mine at Mount Mulligan is owned by the Chillagoe Company. Limited, which was deprived of all its other possessions by the Chillagoe and…

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Maitland District. Caledonian Collieries V. Wickham and B.i

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 September 1921 · page 6

At the Warden's Court, East. Maitland, yesterday, before Mr. G. Atkin, P.M., an application was ledged by Caledonian Collieries, Ltd., for authority to enter…

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The Mining Position

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 September 1921 · page 3

Sir,—After reading the reply made by Mr. Lewis in your issue of Saturday, every right-thinking man must acknowledge that a stage has been reached in the history…

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Is It Bluff ? Miners' Attitude Conference Being Arranged SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 20 September 1921 · page 5

The Southern coal owners, at a meeting yesterday, decided to grant a conference to representatives of the coal and shale Employees Federation…

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Mining Disaster in Chillagoe District. Eighty Men Entombed in the Mt. Mulligan Mine. Only Two Men Rescued Alive. Little Hope for the Others. Brisbane

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 September 1921 · page 5

An appalling tragedy, probably one of the worst ever experienced in Australian, occurred at Mr. Mulligan coal mine, in the Chillagoe district, at about half-past…

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The Coal Trade

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 September 1921 · page 6

It now seems probable that the representatives of the colliery owners will agree to the conference sought by the miners to discuss the question…

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Mine Rescue Brigades. Organisation Neglected

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 September 1921 · page 3

The Mount Mulligan disaster should impress upon the Government and all interested in the mining industry the necessity for the establishment of rescue…

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Coal on the North Coast

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 September 1921 · page 7

Mr. Humphrey, manager of the Central Greta Collieries, inspected Moonem Coal. Coraki, which is in the hands of a local syndicate, and he informs the Moonem…

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Victorians in the Mine. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 September 1921 · page 7

The Stock Exchange to-day sent a message of sympathy with the sufferers in the mining disaster at Mount Mulligan to Mr. Theodore we the Premier of Queensland…

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Industrial Miners' Conference Waiting on Mr. Willis

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 21 September 1921 · page 7

It is reported from Sydney that the Northern, Southern, and Western colliery proprietors' associations will hold a combined conference with the…

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Miners' Sympathy Executive's Action £2000 Sent For Relief

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 21 September 1921 · page 5

Members of the executive, of the Miners' Federation. said Mr. Baddeley (president), to-day, are depressed at the shocking…

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Scene of the Mining Disaster

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 21 September 1921 · page 1

The Mount Mulligan coal mine, showing the approach to the main tunnel. The mountain above the entrance to the tunnel runs back in a series of shelves…

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Hope Abandoned Mount Mulligan Disaster 72 Miners Killed Harrowing Scenes Brisbane

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 21 September 1921 · page 5

Though all hope has been a bandoned of rescuing alive any of the entombed coal miners at count Mulligan, near Cairns, Queensland, the heroic band of men is still working night and day in foul air and in danger of carth falls to recover the broken…

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Colliery Mechanics

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 September 1921 · page 4

A conference was held yesterday afternoon at the rooms of the Northern Colliery Proprietors' Association, between representatives of the Proprietors'…

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Neath Colliery Resumes

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 September 1921 · page 4

Work was resumed at the Neath Colliery yesterday. The mine was idle on the previous day owing to the refusal of the boys to work, through the dismissal of…

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Industrial Matters. Coal Tribunal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 September 1921 · page 4

A sitting of the Coal Tribunal, presided over by Mr. C. Hibble, was held at the rooms of the Northern Colliery Proprietors' Association, yesterday afternoon…

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Miners' Gift Work For Relief

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 22 September 1921 · page 6

The members of the Elermore Vale miners lodge No.2 worked half a shift on the day of the funeral of the late Mr. Edward Nash, of Lambton, who…

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Brave and Patient Women at the Mine

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 22 September 1921 · page 5

A lady representative of the Cairns "Post" writes: — O'Grady only spoke once, exclaiming, "Why the delay! Why the delay?"…

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Boycott Mooted by Miners Against Non-union Collieries SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 23 September 1921 · page 6

The State Government has been requested by the Coal and Shale Employees' Federation to boycott all collieries employing non-union labor…

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