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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1931

2,504 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 19 of 126

Miners' Federation Readmission of Hebburn

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 16 February 1931 · page 9

The question of readmission of the Hebburn Lodge to the Miners' Federation was the chief business that engaged the attention of the Central and Northern…

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Gold in a Goose

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 16 February 1931 · page 6

"This story, which comes from Whisky Creek reads like the old one about the goose that laid the golden egg," writes our Grafton correspondent. Arnold Kilgour,…

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Found Good Gold Prospectors in Victoria £300 Nugget Melbourne

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 16 February 1931 · page 4

Tho discovery last week of 62oz. nugget of gold in a cutting in the Hide of a hill at Blackwood, near Trentham, has centred intercut in the…

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Aberdare Central Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 February 1931 · page 7

The horses will be withdrawn from Aberdare Council Colliery this morning, and the pit will be idle for the rest of the week. It is understood that there is every…

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Coal Industry Bill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 February 1931 · page 4

A Royal Commission inquired very fully last year into the coal industry, and it later presented a report which, in many respects, was most valuable…

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Horses Withdrawn Aberdare Central Mine

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 17 February 1931 · page 8

Aberdare Central colliery, which was idle yesterday, was again idle to-day. Horses were withdrawn from the mine this morning…

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Miners Protest Oil Lease Employees "Outside" Labor

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 17 February 1931 · page 4

Keen disappointment was expressed by Cessnock cavilled out miners at a meeting to-day because the next three men required to fulfill labor…

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Activity in Coal Trade More Shipments From Cranes

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 17 February 1931 · page 5

The activity in Newcastle's coal trade, which began a fortnight ago with the shifting of 67,000 tons for overseas and interstate in one week,…

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Bedrock Quotes for Coal Sydney City Council Tenders Newcastle Views

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 17 February 1931 · page 5

"Redrock prices." This is what coalmen in Newcastle said to-day of the tenders which were opened by the Tenders…

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Elrington Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 February 1931 · page 10

The Acting President of the northern branch of the Miners' Federation (Mr. J. Kellock), Stated yesterday that he had arranged a conference with the…

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Capital Reduced Excelsior Collieries

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 February 1931 · page 3

Shareholders of Excelsior Collieries and Coke Works, Ltd., have unanimously agreed to a reduction in the company's capital from £200,000 in £1 shares to…

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Mine Managers Help Poor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 February 1931 · page 6

Following a suggestion by the Mayor of Broken Hill (Mr. R. Dennis), who is Chairman of the committee of the Mayor's unemployment relief fund, the Mining…

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Colliery Staffs Association's Constitution Interpretation Application Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 February 1931 · page 10

The Full Bench of the Industrial Commission dismissed the application made by the United Colliery Staff Association for the interpretation of the constitution of…

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Cessnock Shale Oil Scheme Miners Disappointed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 February 1931 · page 9

Cessnock cavilled-out miners are disappointed to find that the labour for working the shale deposits in the Wolgan-Newnes district is being drawn from…

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Sunday Work Southern Miners' "Lockout" WOLLONGONG

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 February 1931 · page 10

At a meeting of the Southern Miners' Delegate Board, it was contended that the men at Wongawilli Colliery had been locked out, as the proprietors had insisted…

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Industrial News Western Mine Deputies Conciliation Board Sanctioned

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 February 1931 · page 10

Application was made to Mr. Justice Piddington, Industrial Commissioner, in Sydney on Monday, by the Western District Deputies and Shot Firers'…

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New Guinea Gold Conspiracy Allegations SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 February 1931 · page 8

At the Central Police Court to-day, before Mr. Fletcher, S.M., Frederich Oertel, aged 42, company promoter, Clive Ashley Cooper, aged 43, company promoter,…

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Coal for Patonga Judgment Given for £69 BRISBANE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 February 1931 · page 7

A motion for the setting aside of the writ of summons in the case brought by the Riverside Coal and Transport Coy., against the steamship Patonga, was…

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Coal Briquettes Economy in Industry Newcastle's Lost Trade Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 February 1931 · page 7

A demonstration was made to-day by the State Electricity Commission at Richmond Power House before a party of industrialists, of the use of the new…

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Uncertain About Coal Board Both the Owners and Men Money Problem

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 18 February 1931 · page 7

Both coal men and well-informed union men are sceptical about the Government's proposed. Coal Board ever being able to do what is…

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