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Southern Highlands · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1910

27 stories in Southern Highlands's papers · page 1 of 2

Government Coal

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 5 January 1910 · page 2

The Acting Premier, Mr. Lee, stated on Monday that, so far as could be ascertained, the first shipment of the 50,000 tons of coal…

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The Coal Strike

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 5 January 1910 · page 4

The strike congress, headed by Mr. Hughes proposes to meet in Sydney during this week. Mr. Hughes states that though so…

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The Coal Strike. Prosecutions Initiated

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 8 January 1910 · page 4

The Crown has initiated a prosecution against Peter Bowling, Dr. Hutton, James Butler, and William O'Connor, under the new Industrial Disputes…

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The Newcastle Miners Responsibilities. (To the Editor)

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 12 January 1910 · page 3

Sir,—Seeing that the coal miners of Newcastle are grown men, and responsible to their wives and children to the community, and to…

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The Coal Striker

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 15 January 1910 · page 2

The situation in connection with the industrial trouble has been greatly relieved by the action of the wharf laborers in deciding to work…

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The Coal Strike

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 15 January 1910 · page 4

Mr. Hughes visited the South Coast on Wednesday. At Bulli he received a splendid hearing, the obstructionists being effectively dealt with. He said…

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The Coal Strike. Compulsory Board Rejected

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 19 January 1910 · page 4

The various lodges throughout the Newcastle district held meetings on Friday to discuss the compulsory and industrial board. At West Wallsend,…

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The Coal Strike

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 29 January 1910 · page 4

A meeting of delegates from the principal South Court collieries on Wednesday decided by a small majority and after heated discussion…

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The Coal Strike. Mr. Wade Reviews the Position

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 2 February 1910 · page 3

The Premier of New South Wales, in the course of a speech at a luncheon at Wellington (N Z ) on Friday, said he was convinced that a large body of…

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The Coal Strike

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 16 February 1910 · page 4

By a large majority the southern miners on Saturday decided to return to work on Monday. The whi[?] were blown at the various collieries on…

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Miners at Work

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 16 March 1910 · page 2

The majority of the collieries on the Newcastle and Maitland field commenced work again on Monday morning. Cavils were drawn on…

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Lost in a Coal Mine

Robertson Advocate · Friday 18 March 1910 · page 2

It is very seldom that anybody gets lost in a coal mine, but this happened to a lad named John Kelly in Mount Keirs mine on Monday afternoon. At 5 o'clock, knock-off…

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The State and Coal

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 9 April 1910 · page 2

Speaking on the matter of the State coal mine, the Victorian Premier said on Tuesday that it was becoming more and more recognised that coal was an…

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Responsibility for Coal Strike "Not Bowling But Wade"

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 14 May 1910 · page 4

A well-attended meeting was held in the Royal Hotel, Bondi, on Wednesday night to form a branch of the Political Labour League in that portion of the…

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Colliery Catastrophe

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 18 May 1910 · page 3

An explosion took place in the Wellington pit, at Whitehaven, Cumberland, on Wednesday last. One hundred and thirty miners are…

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Open Column. the Robertson Railway and the Nationalisation of Coal Mines. To the Editor of the Scrutineer

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 18 May 1910 · page 2

Sir,—I crave space in the columns of your journal to express my opinion re the above mentioned subjects. The railway is a long felt district requirement; but unfortunately…

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The Robertson Railway and the National [?]ties of Coal Mines. to the Editor

Robertson Advocate · Friday 20 May 1910 · page 2

SIR,—I crave space in the columns of your journal to express my opinion to the above mentioned subjects. The railway is a long [?] district rea[?]…

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Prosecution of Coal Vend and Shipping Combine

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 28 May 1910 · page 3

On Thursday afternoon the Federal Attorney General (Mr. Hughes) stated that [?] were to be issued against the coal vend, the shipping combine,…

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Immense Gold Reef

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 29 June 1910 · page 3

The Toronto correspondent of "The Time telegraphs that engineers of the Grand. Trunk pacific report that they have discovered a…

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Bringing Gold to the Bane

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 17 September 1910 · page 4

The precautions which are taken to guard gold dispatched from the mines of Australia, America, or South Africa, to the Bank of England—which for years…

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