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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
2,446 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 74 of 123
Mr. John McLeish, Mine Manager at Wonthaggi State coalmine, was to-day appointed by Cabinet as General Manager in place of Mr. G. H. Broome, who died…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Dr. Earle Page, M.H.R., leader of the Australian Country Party, advocated the cause of the State Reconstruction Movement in a speech at…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →George Harrie, 61, a miner, living on the Sawyer's Gully-road, Weston, was caught by a fall of coal at Pelaw Main colliery, yesterday. He was admitted to…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →All collieries in the Lithgow district were idle to-day while the employees held a stop-work meeting to consider the position created by the Government's decision…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The work of pumpers and pump attendants at Aberdare Extended and Abermain No. I collieries is to be performed exclusively by members of the Federated…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Miners' Federation does not intend to allow its members employed on the driving of pumps to…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The hearing of an application for the continuance of an injunction to prevent the shipment of £1000 in sovereigns and broken gold to New Zealand was again…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Coal companies in and the Northern district are still "in a quandary" in connection with overseas coal orders…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Coal shipments from the port of Newcastle this week are expected to amount to about 31,000 tons. Returns for the week are: Monday, 8758…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →It was announced last night, following upon a lengthy conference between the Superintendent of the Caledonian Collieries (Mr. N. Clark), and the officers…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Allegations that for some considerable time Alfred Charles Chisholm, 30, a coal vendor, had been stealing coal from the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"The decision of Mr. Magrath is at variance with the policy of the Miners Federation," the Northern President of the Miners Federation (Mr. T. Hoare)…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Although the majority voted against, West Coast miners failed to vote the requisite three-fifths majority necessary to reject the owners' proposed terms…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →"Any attempt by the Miners' Federation to disregard the decision of the Deputy Industrial…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Launceston Marine Board to-day decided to treat Victorian coal briquettes as manufactured goods for the purpose of wharfage charges…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →In the High Court to-day Mr. Loxton, K.C., moved for leave to appeal against the judgment of the State…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The central dilemma by 1928 was the existence of too many mines and too many mine-workers. Put another way, a large number of mines and about 24,000 men…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Alfred Alderman, 81, is an inmate of Grafton Hospital. He is a gold prospector, and his "home" is in the rugged country on the Upper Clarence, where, for the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Newcastle supplies the top-weight in the first division of the Canterbury Park Three-year-old Handicap…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Only one mine worked full time during the past fortnight, but there were a number which worked full time, except for ,the loss of a day…
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