Conditions Below at Stockton Borehole Miner Gives Evidance Safety in Mines Inquiry
Miners objected to stone dusting in Stockton Borehole Colliery and men employed to apply the stone dust objected…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1939
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New Money for Old. Gold Goes Into The Pot LONDON, April 2
New money for old gold is once again bringing hoards of sovereigns. once fashionable ornaments, and quaint relics of other days to the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Tiny Flies in Mines Miners Use Extra Lamps To Trick Them
A witness from Bellbird mine told the Mines Commission sitting at Newcastle City Hall to-day that spraying was at present being carried out in one…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Burwood Mine Idle
A complaint regarding the supply of skips to the Burwood colliery, one of the properties of the Broken Hill Pty. Co. Ltd., caused a stoppage of work…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Three Mines Still Idle Cessnock Disputes
The three collieries on the Cessnock field, which did not work yesterday, were idle again to-day. The affected mines are Millfield Greta, Aberdare…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Coal Fell From the Face Miner's Fatal Injuries
William Wilson, 50, a miner of long experience, was working in a place in Aberdare Colliery on April 17, when suddenly his mate, who was a…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Pillar Extraction in Mines Investigation Urged Safety Inquiry Evidence
A miner employed at Bellbird Colliery, giving evidence before the Royal Commission into Health and Safety in Coal…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Men Deny Wearing Masks at Mine Alleged Attack on Watchman Two Stabbed Outside Hut
An alleged attack by two masked men on Paul Bernard Adolf Klutz, 64. watchman at North Wallarah Colliery, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Hurled Off Feet by Explosion Man's Escape at Stockton Borehole Mine Story to Commission Shotfiring Practice Discussed
How he escaped with burns to his back and arms, and his hair and eyebrows singed, after an explosion in Stockton Borehole colliery, was described to the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Cherry Bar Beaten by Weight Beau Ercil Too Good in V.P. TRIAL Tel Asur Moves Freely Over Four Furlongs Gold Deposit's Form Sydney
Cherry Bar, who is usually ridden by a very light boy on the track, more than met her match when tried out with a big weight against Beau Ercil at Victoria Park this morning. Tel Asur looks well after his Randwick successes and went…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Burwood Colliery
Burwood colliery remained idle yesterday as a result of the dispute between the lodge and the management on Wednesday. Efforts are being made to…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Kurri Colliery Accidents
Two men injured in colliery accidents were treated at the Kurri Kurri District Hospital yesterday. They were then conveyed to their homes…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →"Unsafe Method" Grunching at John Darling Colliery Miners Took Risks Secretary of Lodge Tells Commission
The method of grunching to win coal at John Darling colliery was not considered safe by the Secretary of John Darling Miners' Lodge (Mr. A. Hanley)…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Aberdare Central Miners Resume
Aberdare Central miners were back at work to-day after their two days' Idleness, the result of a domestic dispute…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Inrush of Water at Colliery Witness Tells Commission
Reference was made before the Royal Commission into Health and Safety in Coal Mines at the City Hall to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →134 Miners Entombed Tokio, April 27
One hundred and thirty-four miners have been entombed in explosions in coalmines in Japan and Manchukuo. One hundred were entombed in an…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Miner's Death Struck by Fall of Coal
When he was struck by a fall of coal in Aberdare colliery on April 17, William Leighton Wilson, 50, was fatally injured and died three days later in…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Quarter Sessions Assault on Mine Watchman Man Remanded for Sentence Companion Acquitted
Francis Theodore Sandow, 40, miner, was remanded for sentence until to-day by Judge Nield at Newcastle Quarter Sessions yesterday, when he was found guilty…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Mine Inspectors' Duties Official's Attack at Safety Commission Not Puppets Of So-called Check Inspectors"
The Mines Department would be opposed to its inspectors being the puppets of so-called miners' check inspectors, who primarily sought prosecutions, stated Senior Mines Inspector R. P. Jack, to the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Industrial News Miners' New Hall Labour Council Wants Action Deferred Appeal to Executive and Lodges
The general meeting of the Newcastle Trades Hall Council last night endorsed the action of its Management Committee in appealing to the Miners' Federation not…
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