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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1923

2,174 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 32 of 109

The Manufacture of Gold

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 April 1923 · page 13

Much has been published recently about an alleged German discovery of a method of manufacturing gold. An American Professor Irving Fisher, of Yale, in the…

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Miners Uneasy Look Out for Monday!

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 7 April 1923 · page 6

To-day being pay-day none of the South Maitland pits are working, but there is no disputing the fact that some little uneasiness is felt us to…

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Belief Methods Protest By Seaham Miners

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 7 April 1923 · page 6

Attention was drawn at the quarterly meeting of the Seaham No. 2 Miners' Lodge, to the humiliating position in which applicants for…

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If Mines Working Men Want Notices

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 7 April 1923 · page 6

Seaham No. 2 miners' lodge carried a resolution to the effect that it was time the federation instructed members of Parliament to have a system…

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Rumoured Japanese Offer for a Newcastle Colliery. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 April 1923 · page 4

A report has reached Melbourne that a big Japanese commercial concern, which has steamers trading to Australia, is negotiating for the purchase of a colliery…

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Maitland District. Mr. Crane and the Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 April 1923 · page 6

The representative of the "Newcastle Morning Herald" who attended the Cessnock Police Court on March 20, when Mr. F. W. C. Crane, P.M., refused…

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Who Will Pay? Coal Monument Again

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 7 April 1923 · page 2

There is contention between the Newcastle City Council and the tramway authorities concerning the cost of removing the coal monument from…

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Industrial Conference. Miners to Be Represented. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 April 1923 · page 4

The Council of the Workers' Industrial Union of Australia (Mining Department) will be fully represented at the proposed industrial conference called by the A.L.P…

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Orders Elsewhere Coal From America Effect of Welsh Strike LONDON

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 7 April 1923 · page 1

According to a Cardiff message, as a result of the strike of minors in the Rhonnda Valley, orders for about a million tons…

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Twenty-five Shillings a Day Proposed New Darg Seaham Miners' Resolution Dependent on Intermittency Conference

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 7 April 1923 · page 6

The intermittency of work in the district was discussed by Seaham No. 2 Miners' Lodge, and after various proposals were advanced with a view to being put into operation in the event of a refusal for a conference with the owners, or of the conference…

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Wonthaggi Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 9 April 1923 · page 4

Sir Robert Gibson, the arbitrator, has commenced the hearing of evidence in the dispute between the coalminers and the management of the Victoria State…

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Wallsend Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 9 April 1923 · page 4

A special meeting of Wallsend Miners Lodge was held at Young's Hall yesterday morning Interviewed after the meeting, Mr. R. Cameron, junior, the…

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Colliery Stoppages. Loss to the Railways

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 9 April 1923 · page 4

The stoppages that have occurred et so many collieries of late create not only an enormous amount of inconvenience in the northern district, but a direct…

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Industrial Matters. Northern Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 9 April 1923 · page 4

A meeting of the northern executive of the Miners' Federation was held at the Trades Hall on Saturday. All the executive officers were present, together with…

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Salvage of Gold

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 9 April 1923 · page 5

A Gothenburg salvage company has entered into an agreement with Lloyd's to despatch a salvage ship with a specially designed apparatus to endeavour to…

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Overton Dispute Miners and Wheeling MISUNDERSTANDING

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 9 April 1923 · page 3

Overton colliery employees have been out for two weeks. For some time the miners have been paid a tonnage rate to wheel their coal, it…

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Maitland District. Mr. Crane and the Miners. Protest to Minister

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 9 April 1923 · page 6

A public meeting convened by the Combined Miners' Lodges of Cessnock district, and presided over by Mr. A. Taylor, president of the Combined…

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Abermain Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 10 April 1923 · page 5

Mr. J. Barnett, district check Inspector, reporting to the executive on his Inspection of Abermain No. 2 Colliery, states that in the left hand section of…

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Wallarah Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 10 April 1923 · page 5

The Wallarah Miners' Lodge has adopted the following notice of motion for submission to the northern district of the federation: "Seeing that Mr. J…

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Abermain Colliery No. 2

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 10 April 1923 · page 5

Twenty wheelers, employed at the Abermain Colliery No.2, Kearsley, are summoned to appear at the Cessnock Police Court this morning in answer to…

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