Miners to Help Shop Assistants Wollongong
Sunday Times · Sunday 11 February 1917 · page 1
A letter has been received from the secretary of the Shop Assistants' Association in Sydney asking the help of the I.C.E. Association in organising the shop assistants in Wollongong…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coal Industry Trouble Likely to Be Settled
Sunday Times · Sunday 11 February 1917 · page 8
It was anticipated that serious trouble would arise in the coal industry owing to the threatened stoppage of work on the part of the colliery mechanics. The recent visit of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Every Woman's Page Cosy Corner Chats Gloves for Mine-sweepers Mellor System Explained
Sunday Times · Sunday 11 February 1917 · page 26
The Mellor gloves for hauling in wire cables have met with great approval, and the men are very eager to get them. They last for three or four months, whereas the ordinary woollen glove wears out in a week or two. The gloves…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →Share Market Mining Scrip Brighter Totalling Mechanisms Higher Earnings by Companies
The Sun · Sunday 11 February 1917 · page 4
Though transactions in mining scrip yesterday were by no means extensive, the tone of the market was healthy, and prices much firmer than on Friday afternoon. Covering…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Northern Collieries
The Daily Telegraph · Monday 12 February 1917 · page 6
NEWCASTLE, Sunday.--Six collieries In the Newcastle district were idle during the fortnight ended on Saturday, and the average time for those which did work was 912 days. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Colliery Mechanics
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 February 1917 · page 9
The compulsory conference between representatives of the Colliery Mechanics' Association and the colliery-owners, in connection with certain claims advanced by the former, has concluded…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Mines Adrift
The Daily Telegraph · Monday 12 February 1917 · page 5
COPENHAGEN, Sunday.--It is feared that a great number of German mines in the Sound are adrift, owing to the Ice. Many mines explode through colliding with blocks of Ice…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Delivery
The Daily Telegraph · Monday 12 February 1917 · page 5
LONDON, Sunday.--General Lloyd has Lent 50 army drivers to the London municipalities to assist in the delivery of coal. Many firms are lending coal merchants motor vans and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Australian Gold Yield
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 February 1917 · page 9
The production of gold in Australia in January, as compiled by the "Argus" from the figures of the Mines departments in the various States, amounted to about 122,014[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Mining Shares
Evening News · Monday 12 February 1917 · page 5
[?] the week on Change with [?] So with [?] and [?] Morgans were [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Labor. Coal Lumpers' Pat
The Daily Telegraph · Monday 12 February 1917 · page 6
The award of the Transport Group No. 22 (Coal Lumpers, Sydney) Board has been gazetted. It deals with the rates of pay and working conditions of coal lumpers in the employe…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Carting Coal. London. Feb. 10
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 February 1917 · page 7
General Lloyd has lent 50 army drivers to London municipalities to assist in the delivery of coal. Many firms are lending coal merchants motor vans. The municipalities also…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Food for Coal. Bartering with Holland
The Daily Telegraph · Monday 12 February 1917 · page 5
LONDON, Sunday.--Over 200 factories in Holland are closing down. Any others are only working half-time owing to the shortage of coal. Street lighting In' some towns has been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →British Destroyer. Sunk by Mine. London, Feb. 9
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 February 1917 · page 7
The Admiralty announces that a British destroyer, of an old type, while patrolling the Channel, struck a mine and sunk. All the officers were lost. There were…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →German Coal Shortage. Some Further Evidence. the [?]
Evening News · Monday 12 February 1917 · page 1
[?] German cities, including [?] cit of 110,000 inhabitants, in [?] have closed all theatres, music [?] and public [?] owing to [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Labour Shortage. Miners Offered 17/ Per Shift. Broken Hill
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 February 1917 · page 6
The Broken Hill mining companies are again complaining of the shortage of men, especially since the re-opening for production of the British and Junction North mines…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mining. a Strong Market. Recovering in Westonias
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 February 1917 · page 9
Though not overmuch business was passing in mining scrip on the Stock Exchange on Saturday, values, nevertheless, showed generally stronger tendencies, and, with the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Arctic Fur Found in the Coal Bunker Wharf Laborer Charged
The Sun · Monday 12 February 1917 · page 5
A white Arctic foxskin adorned the Water Police Court to-day. It had been found in the coal bunker of a ship. Henry Claude Jones, aged 27, a wharf…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Books for Gold Miners
The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 13 February 1917 · page 8
St[?]thrope (Q.) asks me if i can obtain for him a [?]: containing full instructions for gold-saving with a battery, and giving instructions on how to treat and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Labor. Richmond Main Colliery
The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 13 February 1917 · page 6
NEWCASTLE, Monday.--At to-day's sitting of the Federal Coal Board. Mr. Justice Edmunds said he understood that the Richmond Main Lodge had agreed to resume work on the…
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