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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1922

2,088 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 35 of 105

Industrial Matters Northern Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 15 May 1922 · page 4

A conference was held at the Newcastle offices of the Miners' Federation on Saturday for the purpose of discussing the attitude adopted by the management…

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New Source of Radium Uranium Mine

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 15 May 1922 · page 8

Radium is perhaps the most mostly substance in the world. A few grains of it are worth a fortune. This high cost is due to the enormous amount of…

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Decreased Gold Yield Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 15 May 1922 · page 4

The State gold y[?] continues to show a serious decline. Last month the return amounted to 1644 oz crude, valued at £6603, as compared with…

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OIL V. COAL Change on Ships Unlikely SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 15 May 1922 · page 6

A prominent local shipowners' representative, speaking recently in regard to the Australian Seamen's Union's expression of consternation at…

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Wallsend Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 May 1922 · page 5

Notwithstanding that the difficulty between the shiftmen and the manager of Wallsend Colliery had been overcome the colliery was idle yesterday, nor was the…

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Wallsend Colliery Railway Line Damaged

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 16 May 1922 · page 6

Wallsend colliery did not resume operations yesterday morning. Though the matter in dispute between the shiftmen and the management…

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New Coal Company

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 16 May 1922 · page 6

The registration is announced of the Newcastle Big Ben Coal Mining Company, Limited. It has a capital of £20,000 and proposes to carry on…

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Coal Disputes Both Sides to Confer

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 16 May 1922 · page 6

A conference has been arranged between the owners and miners' representatives for to-morrow, at noon, regarding the dispute over the…

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Rates on Coal Shire's Motion Tarro President's Report

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 16 May 1922 · page 6

Councillor Hector, president of Tarro Shire Council, presented a report yesterday concerning the recent shire conference in Sydney…

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Rosedale Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 May 1922 · page 7

Rosedale Colliery, which had been supplying coal under satisfactory conditions to the New South Wales Railway Commissioners for the last thirty years,…

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Aberdare Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 May 1922 · page 7

The Aberdare Shaft Colliery was still idle yesterday, owing, it is stated, to some difficulty with regard to the payment of compensation to wheelers…

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Miners' President

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 May 1922 · page 7

Mr. J. W. Iceton, district check-inspector, yesterday informed the lodges which nominated him for the position of president of the northern branch of the…

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Industrial Matters. Northern Miners. Providing for Unemployed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 May 1922 · page 7

Mr. A. Lewis, district treasurer of the Miners' Federation, stated yesterday that a strong agitation was being made by the members for railway…

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Newcastle Collieries. Slackness in Work

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 May 1922 · page 5

Complaint is made by the representatives of the lodges in the lower, or Newcastle, field of the continued slackness in the work at these collieries…

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Miners' Levy

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 18 May 1922 · page 4

So that victimised pay, running into almost £1000 may be paid to the members of several lodges in the Newcastle district, the C.E.F. has…

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Certificate Suspended Overwinding Mine Cage

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 18 May 1922 · page 7

The engineer's certificate of W. T. Smith, who over-wound a cage at Hebburn No. 2 colliery while water was being drawn to the surface, has…

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Widows' Coal Paying the Cartage

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 18 May 1922 · page 1

What is regarded as the breaking of a 30-year-old custom is being objected to by the Wallsend miners' lodge. It concerns the issue, of coal…

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Unemployed Two Years Hebburn Miners' Relief

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 18 May 1922 · page 3

Applications for relief to the Hebburn miners' lodge at Weston include an appeal from a member who has been, through inability to work,…

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Aberdare Central Mine Check Inspectors' Report

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 18 May 1922 · page 5

Messrs. F. Hindmarsh and J. Barrett, cheek inspectors, report as follows on their inspection of Aberdare Central colliery for May 2, 8, 9 and…

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Fortune's Smile Levity at Miners' Office

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 18 May 1922 · page 5

By the investment of a piece of silver Mr. Amra[?] Lewis, treasurer of the local miner's organisation, has become the possessor of a pig…

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