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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1922

2,088 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 13 of 105

Miners' Federation

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 February 1922 · page 4

Dr. Sweet and Dr. Sawyer, with Mr. Rodgers, members of the International Health Board, interviewed the northern executive of the Miners' Federation at…

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Edison "Gold" Discovery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 February 1922 · page 7

"Mr. Thomas Edison, the famous inventor, states that in consequence of a discovery made in the last two months it may be possible to make gold artificially,"…

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New Door for Old Theft From Colliery

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 10 February 1922 · page 5

The story of a young man who stole a door from a disused weighing-room of the Co-operative it in a week-end place at…

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Wallaroo Mines Close. Adelaide

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 February 1922 · page 4

Mr. Jennings, the secretary to the Wallaroo and Moonta Mining and Smelting Company, to-day stated that the Wallaroo and Moonta mines are to be closed…

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Coal Federation. Question of Unemployment

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 February 1922 · page 4

At the annual meeting of the central council of the Coal and Shade Workers' Federation, held in Sydney, councillors decided to pay a tribute to Mr. J. M…

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Germany Pays Up 31,000,000 Gold Marks Third Instalment LONDON

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 10 February 1922 · page 1

Reuter's Paris correspondent telegraphs that the German Government has paid 31,000,000 gold marks, being the third instalment under the…

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Colliery Inspection

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 February 1922 · page 6

Messrs. J. Barnett and T. Johnson, chock inspectors, inspected Whitburn Colliery, Greta, on January 16-18, and reported an follow:—No. 7 north,…

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Pacific Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 February 1922 · page 6

Pacific Colliery has been idle for three weeks, the trouble having arison over the dismissal of a minor. A meeting of the lodge was held on Thursday night, which…

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Stockton-borehole Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 February 1922 · page 6

A conference between the management of the Stockton-Borchole colliery and Mr. J. M. Baddelay, president of the northern branch of the Miners' Federation,…

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Seaham Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 February 1922 · page 6

Mr. A. Lewis, district treasurer of the Miners' Federation, stated yesterday that efforts were being made to employ some of the members of No. 1 Seaham colliery…

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Whitburn Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 February 1922 · page 6

Mr. J. Kedwell presided at the monthly meeting of Whitburn Lodge, held at Greta on Tuesday. The minutes from the committee…

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Coal Tribunal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 February 1922 · page 6

The coal tribunal has not sat in Newcastle since the chairman returned from New Zealand. The last matters dealt with were those affecting the miners of…

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South Maitland Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 February 1922 · page 6

The central council, consisting of representatives of the lodges and local committees in the South Maitland district will meet at Abermain this afternoon…

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Industrial Matters. Northern Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 February 1922 · page 6

Considerable interest is being taken by the miners in the northern district in the campaign which has been started to secrtaia whether the disease known as…

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£1,000,000 Mine Scheme

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 11 February 1922 · page 8

In spite of the difficulties which hinder the development of collieries in Great Britain one large colliery company has decided to spend over one million…

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Railway Coal. Consumption in December

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 February 1922 · page 7

A feature of the railway statistics of New South Wales for December last was the decrease of 2 per cent. in the coal burned per mile…

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Power From Coal and Water

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 February 1922 · page 5

In an interesting address to the Manchester Association of Engineers, Sir Dugald Clerk drew attention anew to the fact that without ample supplies of…

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Miners in Need Westy Distress Provision of Relief

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 11 February 1922 · page 5

At a combined meeting of the committee the West Wallsend group mines held yesterday, reference was the distress existing in the…

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Miners' Wages British Reductions £2 2s for Six Shifts

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 11 February 1922 · page 3

Mr. I. Hand secretary of the Boilermakers' Union, has received the following cutting from a friend living in the North of England, being a…

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Our New Zealand Letter. Wellington, February 1. Explosives for Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 February 1922 · page 13

There has been considerable discussion regarding the price of explosives used in coal-mining. The matter has been several times mentioned in Parliament by the…

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