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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
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An explosion in the William pit workings, whitehaaven, Cumberland, caused 104 deaths. Three men escaped through an undamaged section of the pit. The picture gives a general view of the pit after the disaster…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY.—Mr. P. H. Gallagher, of the Central Coal Reference Board, continued his hearing today of claims for wage increases ranging from 15s…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, August 24. A.A.P.âThe death in hospital of one of the five miner's injured in the Morison North pit ( Country Durham) explosion brings…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Yesterday's good start on the northern coalfields, when all pits worked, was marred today by the idleness of six…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →COAL output for the State yesterday was the best for a month. All Northern mines worked…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TEN SHIPS ar expected to lift coal for interstate ports and Noumea this week. They should clear most of the [?]5,000 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Twenty-nine fully loaded hoppens and a guard's van broke away and ran half a mile at Wallsend yesterday before they…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →ADELAIDE. Monday.—More severe restrictions of railway services and gas supplies, owing to the non-artival of colliers from Newcastle, were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MELBOURNE: Victorian Railways Commissioners announced today that the Overland Express will not run from Melbourne to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, Wednesday.—All 2682 miners at Grimthorpe Colliery, Yorkshire, have been sacked over a strike which began 16 days…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →LONDON, August 26. A.A.P.—Another of the men injured in the explosion in the Morison North pit, County Durham, on Saturday has…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FOOD-GROWING and coal production are bracketed as top priorities in the United Kingdom today…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →With no production at eight collieries, and no work after 1 p.m. at another, yesterday's coal production loss in the State was 6540 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Wago increase ranging from 9/7 to 15/ a week were granted to-day to members of the Federated Enginedrivers and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Suspecting the presence of gas in the workings of Stockton Borehole Colliery, miners this morning refused to enter the pit for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Wednesday: British taxpayers found today that they are £20,000,000 sterling in debt through owning the country's coalmines. Since the mines were nationalised…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Coal Board Estimates that if the miners decide to work on back Saturdays, it will cost the Government £20.000…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →GRAFTON, Tuesday.—The use of North Coast coal in the operation of Koolkhan power station, which is expected to begin generating…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Aug. 26.—Four miners from Houghton colliery, Durham, are under notice of dismissal for persistent absenteeism. They are the first to be dismissed since the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The directors of Caledonian Collieries Ltd. announce that the result of operations for the half-year ended June 21 does not permit the payment…
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