... COMB-OUT AT ALL MINES. The comb-out of colliers is to be made general. At first certain mines were exempted, but the National Service Department has now decided to treat all alike. Grade A men, single and married, aged eighteen years eight months to ...

... has been killed at Siegen aerodrome while trying a new machine. MINES COMB-OUT. A majority of 52,615 Welsh miners have Toted in favour of the combing-out Of military eligibles from the mines. POUR-YEAR-OLD BOY DROWNED. Leonard Cooling. four, of Sunbury ...

... recovering from typhoid fever. Eight travelling medical board' nre — now at work in South Wales in connection With the coal mines comb-out. Out of 230 men examined or one colliery 150 were passed for general service. Members of the London Teas hors' A ssoc ...

... adjourned conference of the South Wales miners’ delegates held ut Cardiff to consider further tha question of combing-out in mines decided by & large majority to accept the recommendation of the Miners’ Federation of Great Britain, namely,that in the calling ...

... COMB-OUT BEGUN. A big call -up of miners has begun. This comb out refers exclusively to men who have entered the coal-mining industry since August 4th, 1914. The men have the right to apply to the colliery recruiting courts on the ground that a mistake ...

... he was hopeful that -the month's delay would bhe granted. Mr. Smillie also reported that the comb- Ing out of men from the mines who had gone into them since August,” 1916, was being vigorously pro. ceeded with and would he completed before the new scheme ...

... is to exempt from military service all men at prei.ent enipleyed in the industry except , those who may have cane into the mines ranee June 24 last. There is no ground for supposing that any large number of men have entered the mince in order to evade ...

... decision of the local Broken Hill South Sil\}ar Mining, dividend of: 6s. ;fiigg;.?;.:f;&n‘t‘:fi }:.‘:3 r;;:r‘x,t‘hs' exemption and not, 2, payi 2%th June. ) hout, | . - pe{hsi:xeai: l‘i[;:q);i:nl()l]e(}m:c’ral Mining, dividend of ‘6d.| 'A bootmaker, aged 30 ...

... decisions of the country in general in regard to getting on with the war. The Government proposed to take men from the coal-mines in order to help make good the losses suffered by the Army at the front. Upon this, the miners took a ballot as to whether ...

... +was decided to take a ballot on the question of stopping work if the Government proceed with tho combing-out scheme in the mines. ...

... had to find 050 men or one for every 807 acres. The rural or agricultural population of Warwickshire, after the urban and mining population has been deducted, is very little larger than that of Oxfordshire, but more than twice the number farm conscripts ...

... her 1920 class. A strict comb-out Is now in progress. The munition works are yielding up 1.00,000 men of Grade 1.. The coal mines are supplying 50,030 men, and will be asked to find 50,000 more. A levy is to be made on the Transport Services. 111 Civil ...