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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1928

2,247 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 24 of 113

The Redhead Collieries

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 March 1928 · page 6

By order of the mortgages, the Redhead Collieries are to be offered for sale by auction at the rooms of Messrs. Hardle and German, Proprietary, Limited, 36…

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Cavil Drawn Ayrfield No. 2 Colliery

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 24 March 1928 · page 7

The cavil at Ayrfield No. 2 colliery was drawn this morning after being postponed from Thursday. On Wednesday the management was approached with respect to…

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Industrial Matters Delegate Board John Darling Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 March 1928 · page 5

The miners' delegate board continued its sitting at the Newcastle Trades Hall yesterday. This was the fourth day. Mr. T. Hoare, president of the northern…

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Coal in Roman Times

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 March 1928 · page 3

Professor Henry Louis, the new president of the British Institution of Mining Engineers, dealt particularly with the history of the coal-mining industry in his…

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Idle Collieries

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 26 March 1928 · page 5

Owing to trade slackness, Bellbird Colliery was idle to-day. Aberdare Extended was also idle. At starting time this morning a…

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Caledonian Collieries, Ltd

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 26 March 1928 · page 4

Discussing the decline in earnings of the Caledonian Collieries, Limited, during the year ended December 31 last, when the profits showed a decline of £17,288 compared…

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Wonthaggi Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 26 March 1928 · page 4

The pay at the Victorian State Colliery for the fortnight amounted to £16,000. During the same period the output of coal was 21,150 tons…

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Hollinger Mine Fire

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 26 March 1928 · page 5

A message from Timmins, Ontario, reports that a coroner's jury inquired into the Hollinger mine fire disaster in which 30 men lost their lives…

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Coal Trade Ills 250,000 Miners Workless U.S.A. Inquiry Washington

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 26 March 1928 · page 1

Mr. J. D. Rockfeller, Junr., who described himself as "a layman in the industry and merely an investor trying to do his best with the great re-…

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Drastic Changes Miners' Administration Exit Delegate Board

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 26 March 1928 · page 5

Drastic changes in the administration of the Northern Miners' Federation are to be made, if the recommendations of the conference held on…

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British Miners Repeal of Eight Hours Refused by Commons (Australian Press Association.) LONDON

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 26 March 1928 · page 5

Private members' day on Friday was devoted to a Goal Mines Bill to repeal the Eight Hour Act of 1926. It was introduced by Mr. Greenwall…

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Northern Collieries

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 March 1928 · page 5

The Northern Collieries' Association reported yesterday: "Rhondda resumed to-day under the old conditions, but Killingworth remains on strike…

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Cessnock Collieries

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 27 March 1928 · page 7

Aberdaro Extended Colliery, which was idle yesterday, owing to a disputs among the wheelers, resumed this morning. Cessnock No. 2 pit was idle…

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Miners' Management Committee

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 March 1928 · page 5

Sir,—The reorganisation scheme recommend by the Northern Miners' Delegate Board is worthy of the support of members of our organisation. It is a…

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250,000 U.S. Miners on Strike

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 27 March 1928 · page 9

A group of Pennsylvania miners, who are concerned in the coal industry trouble in U.S.A., where of a million mine employees are on strike…

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STRANDED Permanent Unemployment for Miners Distress in Wales British Government Will Consider New Fields London

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 27 March 1928 · page 1

While in South Wales be bad found confidence among miners, mine owners and managers, that in time the situation in the coal industry would regain a large measure of its former prosperity, that might be true of the industry as a whole, but in…

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Northern Collieries

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 March 1928 · page 6

The Northern Collieries' Association reported yesterday: "Killingworth is still on strike, but Pelaw-Main, Stanford Merthyr No. 2, and Aberdare Extended…

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Coal Mines Act a Permitted Explosive

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 March 1928 · page 6

The use of the explosive Samsonite No. 3 has been permitted by the Department of Mines until September 30, Subject to the following conditions: (1) That the…

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Teralba Mines

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 March 1928 · page 6

A combined meeting of the Teralba miners' lodges took place on Monday night. Mr. Haydon, sen., presiding. A letter was received from Mr. Sneddon,…

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East Greta Colliery Minister's Decision Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 March 1928 · page 6

Mr. Chaffey, Minister for Mines, has decided that he cannot accede to the request of the deputation which waited upon him on March 13, and asked that…

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