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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1922

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Coal Position. Feeling in Newcastle

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 May 1922 · page 14

A general strike in the coal-mining industry is not considered by shipping agents and mine representatives in Newcastle as likely to occur in the…

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Arermain Mines. Absorption of Seaham Workers

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 May 1922 · page 9

A conference was hold at the Newcastle officer of the Miners Federation on Saturday for the purpose of discussing the attitude adopted by the…

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Gold Finds Excitement at Canbelego

Singleton Argus · Saturday 20 May 1922 · page 5

There is keen excitement at Canbelego through additional finds of gold bearing reef at Muriel Tank, on the railway line 14 miles towards Nyngan…

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Miners' Earnings. Newspaper Statements Denied. Job Control Invention

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 May 1922 · page 11

Mr. J. M. Baddeley, M.L.A., retiring president of the Northern branch of the Coalminers' Federation, made reference to repeatedly published…

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Industrial Situation Price of Coal. Newcastle

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 May 1922 · page 16

The industrial situation is becoming acute in this centre, and daily a log queue of men can to seen at the Labour Exchange other, all of them…

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Ganbelego Gold Find 200 Men on Field. (By Telegraph.) Sydney

Singleton Argus · Saturday 20 May 1922 · page 6

There are now 200 men at Canbelego, and many claims have been pegged out. A good deal of excitement prevails…

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Coal Development

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 22 May 1922 · page 3

It is reported that some leading residents of Muswellbrook are likely to be interested in some of the coal companies recently established here for the…

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Coal Profiteers. U.S.A. Action. Vancouver, May 20

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 22 May 1922 · page 5

Legislation to punish coal profiteers in the United States is contemplated by President Harding. Not content with initiating a…

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Mining Industry. the Wage Question

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 23 May 1922 · page 5

South Wales notified the Coalminers' Federation that they pro posed to reduce wages all round in the industry by 33 1-3 per cent., and to revert to…

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Coal Control. Denounced by Sir Thomas Henley. Restriction of Industries

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 23 May 1922 · page 6

Sir Thomas Henley, Minister for Works, is much concerned at the idle industries in New South Wales on the one hand, and the large number of…

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Lucknow Goldfield. Report to Minister

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 23 May 1922 · page 3

Mr. J. C. L. Fitzpatrick, Minister for Mines, has received a report from Mr. Geological Suveyor Harper on the South Lucknow goldfield…

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Effect on Railways. High Price of Coal

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 24 May 1922 · page 7

Sir Thomas Henley, Minister for Works and Railways, referring to his denunciation of the control of coal by the Commonwealth, said he was…

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Coal Industry. Special Commission Suggested Mr. Baddeley's Proposals

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 24 May 1922 · page 7

Mr. J. M. Baddeley, president of the Northern District Coal Miners' Federation, replied to the statements of Sir Thomas' Healey in regard to the coal…

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Tasmanian Mining. Statistics for the Quarter

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 24 May 1922 · page 6

Statistics relating to the mining industry of Tasmania, for the quarter ended on March 31, 1922, show [?]at the value of the gold yield was £1077;…

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Miser's Golden Hoard. Dies in Workhouse and Leaves £700 in Gold

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 24 May 1922 · page 5

The golden heard of a Monmouth woman miser, who, when she died at Monmouth Workhouse, was thought to be in poverty, has been discovered…

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Canbelego Gold Mine Nothing to Justify Sensational Reports

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 25 May 1922 · page 2

Mr. Godfrey, inspector of mines, is engaged making an inspection of the field and Muriol Tank, near Canbelego, and a report is expected towards…

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Coal Control Restriction of Industries

Singleton Argus · Thursday 25 May 1922 · page 4

Sir Thomas Henley, Minister for Works, is much concerned at the Idle industries in New South Wales on the out, hand, and the large number of…

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Fares and Freights No Reduction Until Coal Cheapens

Singleton Argus · Thursday 25 May 1922 · page 2

The- Minister for Railways, Sir Thos. Henley, made the following statement on Tuesday night: "Before railway fares and freights can be substantially…

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Difficulty at Neath Colliery

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 26 May 1922 · page 3

One section of Neath Colliery has stopped working for the reason that unmarketable coal—known as White coal, being close to the outcrop—was…

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The Dawn of Mining at Ellalong Progress of Stanford Merthyr No. 2 Mine

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 26 May 1922 · page 1

There are comparatively few people on the Coalfields, and not many in Cessnock, which is closer at hand, who know of the big developments that are…

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