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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1923

1,441 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 23 of 73

Big Improvement Queensland. Gold Yield

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 14 April 1923 · page 6

The resumption of operations at Mount Morgan and the improvement at Gympic was reflected by an increased gold yield for Queensland last…

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Idle Collieries. a New Development. Action by Top Hands. Kurri Kurri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 14 April 1923 · page 5

Belaw-Main and Richmond Main miners were again idle today. Opportunity has been taken of the stoppage to instal new haulage ropes in…

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State Gold. Big Decrease for March

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 14 April 1923 · page 5

Mr. R. H. Cambage, the Under-Secretary for Mines, has furnished a return showing that the gold yleid for March, 1923 amounted to 882 ounces…

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Meeting of Protest. Major Crane and the Miners

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 14 April 1923 · page 15

A public meeting convened by the Combined Miners' Lodges of Cessnock district, and presided over by Mr. A. Taylor, president of the Combined…

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Workers' Industrial Union. Mining Council Deliberating

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 14 April 1923 · page 11

The council of live Workers' Industrial Union of Australia (Mining Department) opened a meeting at the offices of the Federation in Sydney on…

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Glen Avr Miners' Lodge

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 16 April 1923 · page 4

A meeting of the Glen Ayr Miners' Lodge will be held near the East Greta Hotel to-morrow (Tuesday) morning at 10 o'clock. All members…

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Colliery Trouble Return to Work. Favoured. Important Conference

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 16 April 1923 · page 5

An important conference between official of the Miners' Federation and secretatics of the miners' lodges in the Maitland district was held at West…

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Coal Control. London, April 14

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 16 April 1923 · page 5

Reuter's Duesseldort correspondent reports that General Degontte has issued a decree forbidding the inovement of coal-laden trucks in…

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LOCAL & General News South Greta Miners

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 16 April 1923 · page 4

A meeting of the South Greta Miners' Lodge will be held in the Homevile Hall at 7 o'clock to-night (Monday). A full attendance of…

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Kurri Mines Idle. Kurri Kurri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 16 April 1923 · page 5

When Hebburn No. 1 ceased work on Saturday because the top-hands refused to load Aberdare waggons, it was thought there was a possibility…

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Mining Situation Only Two Mines at Work. Pelaw-Main Management Miners and Major Crane. Kurri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 17 April 1923 · page 5

Stanford-Merthyr and East Greta were the only big mines at work on the whole area of tho South Maitland coalfields to-day…

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Cessnock Collieries. Deputations to Managrrs. Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 17 April 1923 · page 5

In accordance with the resolutions carried at the aggregate meeting yesterday afternoon, deputations from the respective lodges waited upon the…

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Payment of Coal Tax

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 17 April 1923 · page 5

Reuter's Dusseldorf correspondent states that the second period of grace for the payment of the coal tax expired to-day. It is expected…

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The Coal Trouble End in Sight

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 17 April 1923 · page 2

Though the result of the proceedings at the meeting of lodge secretaries at Maitland on Sunday was officially withheld from the press, it was…

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A Serious Position. Miners'. Meetings. Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 17 April 1923 · page 5

The mining situation is very unsettled, and indications are that a settlement will not be reached for some days…

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The Mining Situation. When Will the Whistle Blow?

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 17 April 1923 · page 2

The miners are waiting for the proprietors to say the word and the general public, too, is just as expectant. So far they have given no indication of…

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Four Mines Working

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 18 April 1923 · page 5

Only two of the big mines on the Maitland field, Stanford-Morthyr and East Greta ware working to-day Ayrfield and Ashtonfield also con-…

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Mining Situation Fosition Unchanged.shiftmen for Richmond-main Kurri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 18 April 1923 · page 5

Late yesterday afternoon the names of about 20 men required for work at Richmond-Main to-day and 15 or 16 for Thusday were posted…

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The Coal Mines Early Resumption Unlikely

Singleton Argus · Thursday 19 April 1923 · page 2

Reports from Newcastle- on the collieries situation state that the prospects of settlement of the trouble on the Maitland field assumed a…

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Coal Dispute. Instructions to Managers. Secretary's Statement

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 19 April 1923 · page 5

No fresh developments are reported in connection with the mining crisis on the Maitland field. All eyes are now turned on the men's executive…

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