The Coal Controversy. The Dispute Settled. SYDNEY
Mr. Grahame, State Minister for Agriculture, has returned to Sydney from Melbourne: he refused to discuss the result of the conference with Victorian…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Northern Rivers · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1918
508 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 4 of 26
Lymington Colliery Closing. Wheelers Average 195 a Day and Want More. SYDNEY
Reports from Newcastle state that the Lymington colliery will be closed down indefinitely owing to frequent stoppages through Labor troubles. The wheelers…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →America the Coal Conservation Order. Newspapers' Hostile Comment. New York
Several New York journals strongly object to the order issued for the closing down of industries to conserve the coal supply. They characterise the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Supplies. Wollongong Miners' Resolutions
SYDNEY, Sunday.—A resolution was adopted during the week at a delegate board meeting of the colliery employees of Wollongong that the proposed Victorian coal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Miners Want Representation. In Legislative Council. SYDNEY
The Delegate Board of the Colliery Employees' Federation met during the week at Wollongong, when the proposed Victorian coal contract was considered…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Broken Hill Mines
SYDNEY, Sunday.—The total value of the output at Broken Hill during 1917 was over £4,000,000…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal Conservation Order. Great Fleet of Ships Tied Up. New York
A message from Washington states that Democrats in the House of Representatives blocked the passage of a resolution similar to that passed in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Supplies
Mr. Holman has made available extracts from a letter which he sent to the Victorian Cabinet with the full concurrence of his Cabinet,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Miners Relief Fund
SYDNEY, Monday.—Mr. Fitzpatrick, Minister, for Mines, said to-day he had received complaints from various mining [?] tres regarding the allowances by the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lymington Colliery Dispute Settled. Sydney
Advices from Newcastle state that the Lymington Colliery will not be closed as orginially intended; the dispute having been settled…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Coal Conservation Order 500,000 Tons Already Released for Shipping. New York
Mr. Garfield, U.S. Fuel Minister, has announced that, as a result of the coal order, half a million tons of coal have already been sent to the Atlantic ports…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Coal Miners Meet
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Federated Council of Coal Miners met this afternoon, when representatives of N.S.W., Tasmania, Victoria, Queensland and New Zealand were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coal Supplies
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Mr. Holman returned from Melbourne to-day. He stated he had succeeded in convincing the Victorian Premier in respect of the coal contract. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Colliery Idle. Night Shift Question
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Scarborough Tunnel colliery, employing about 200 men, is again idle, due to a disagreement over the night shift question. There is little prospect of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Labor Affairs. Miners' Federation
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Mr. Beeby, Minister for Labor, says that, if there is to be further trouble with the Miners' Federation the Government will be prepared to meet…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Another Colliery Idle
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Burwood colliery has been thrown idle owing to a strike. The emiployees refused to go down the mine with a loyalist…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Labor Affairs. Lymington Mine
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Mr. Baddeley, (president of the Australian Coal and Shale Employees Federation, said that had Mr. Beeby taken the workmen into his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal Supplies for Victoria. the Dispute Settled
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A definite settlement of the dispute concerning the coal supply between the Victorian Government and the N.S. Wales Government has been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →That Victorian Coal Contract. Finality at Last. MELBOURNE
A definite agreement regarding the coal contract has been reached. Victoria will take 200,000 tons of first-class coal annually from Pelaw Main and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →An Arsenic Mine
The Queensland Government has set apart an area of 150 acres in the Stanthorpe district as a State mineral field. The Minister for…
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