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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1922

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Coal Federation. Proposed Wages Reduction. Economic Conference

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 4 February 1922 · page 4

The sittings of the Australasian Coal and Shale Employee's Federation were continued in Sydney. After discusion, it was decided to…

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Rand Strike. Mines Are Flooding. Johannesburg, Jan. 24

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 February 1922 · page 12

The federation is again aiming at the maintenance of the essential services of the mines, and has requested the officials of the association to take…

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Falling Wages Moonta Miners' Agreement. 18 Per Cent. Reduction

Singleton Argus · Saturday 4 February 1922 · page 7

An Adelaide message an Wednesday stated that as the outcome of an offer made by the employees, in recognition of the present depressed condition of the…

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Output of Coal. Record for Australia Coke and [?]

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 February 1922 · page 8

The under-Secretary for Mines, Mr. R. H. Cambage, has furnished a return to the Minister for Mines, Mr. Cann, showing that the output coal…

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Mining Industry. Owners Opposed to a Strike. Pblaw-main Trouble

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 February 1922 · page 6

Mr. C. M. M'Donald (secretary to the Northern Colliery Proprietors' Association) slated that the coal proprietors did not desire to see a…

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Hookworm. Laboratory in Newcastle. Survey of Men in Mining Fields

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 February 1922 · page 6

Dr. W. C. Sweet, of the Hookworn Campaign, has established headquarters, at Newcastle, and the laboratory is being installed, at Newcastle Hospital…

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Eleven Mines. Work Full Time

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 February 1922 · page 4

Full time at the collieries of the [?] and Maitland districts was 10 days for the fortnight ended on Saturday last, and this was put in at…

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Miners' Earnings. Qusetion of Reduction. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 February 1922 · page 5

The district treasurer of the Northern Miners' Federation says that before reduction in minors wages could be discussed there should lie information…

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Miners, Wages Sydney

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 7 February 1922 · page 2

The District Treasurer of the Northern Miners' Federation says that before any reduction in miners' wages could be discaused there should be information as to…

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Australian Coal. Only a Temporary Slump

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 8 February 1922 · page 7

Mr. R. W. Gibbs, member of a well-known Sydney firm, who has just returned from England, via America, says that Australia is not going to…

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Coal for Railways. the Lithgow Contracts

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 8 February 1922 · page 7

The attention of the Chief Railway Commissioner, Mr. Fraser, was drawn on Tuesday to the report from Lithgow, in the nature of a…

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145,000 Miners Out. Strike in Czecho-slovakia. London. February 5

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 8 February 1922 · page 5

A message from Prague states that 1,45,000 coal miners have struck in Czecho-Slovakia. Many factories are already closed…

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Hookworm. Campaign on Mining Field. Disease Symptoms

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 9 February 1922 · page 6

The presence of the hookworm campaign in Newcastle, which will be ex[?]nded to the Maitland field, makes the question of hookworm disease one of…

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Overton Colliery a Question of Contracts

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 10 February 1922 · page 2

It was believed in local circles that the newly-formed Overton Coal Company had received a contract for supplying 10,000 tons of coal to the…

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Mining Tenement Forfeited

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 10 February 1922 · page 5

On the the application of James Smith, mining tenement 24s held by Victor Straffer at Polaw-Main was declared forfelted on account of failure…

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Hidden Gold. Men Who Know the Scecret Buried Alive

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 10 February 1922 · page 5

For centuries it has been the habit of the Moors to hid gold consisting generally or Spa[?] double[?],French louts and [?] gold [?]…

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Electric Light Finality in Sight. Ald. Loader Submits an Alternative Scheme Coal Company to Supply Current

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 10 February 1922 · page 4

The proposed electric lighting scheme was advanced another stage at Wednesday's night meeting of the Municipal Council. Dr. Roger…

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Coal Miners' Working. an Amusing Incident. Johannesburg, February 3

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 11 February 1922 · page 12

The Town Hall meeting announcement of the five arrests is another of the mysteries of the strike. The police at headquarters have not heard of it,…

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Whitburn Miners' Officials Resigns

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 11 February 1922 · page 4

Owing to the lodge not being prepared to assist in currying out the district rules, the officials of Whitburn Colliery have resigned. At a meeting of the…

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Mines Closing. Johannesburg, February 1

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 11 February 1922 · page 12

It is officially reported that provisional notice has been given closing down the Newcock and Roodepoost United mines…

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