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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1923

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Electricity Supply. Conference with the Colliery Company

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 19 October 1923 · page 3

The president of the Cessnock Shire Council (Cr. Brown) submitted to a meeting of the council yesterday a report on a conference with the…

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Mining Disaster. No More Rescuable. London, October 18

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 19 October 1923 · page 5

All hope of rescuing any of the [?]bed miners alive from the Redding pit vanished to-day, when the company officially announced that on…

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Avrfield Miners

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 20 October 1923 · page 4

A special meeting of Ayrfield Miners' Lodge will be held at East Greta at 10.30 o'clock to-morrow (Sunday). All member are…

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Colliery Mechanics the Building Scheme

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 October 1923 · page 16

Meetings held at Adainstown, Catherine Hill Bay and Weston have approved the recomemndations of the executive and delegates board of the…

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Entombed Miners Fate

Singleton Argus · Saturday 20 October 1923 · page 6

(Australian Press Assn; Cable.) All hope of rescuing any of the entombed miners alive in the Bedding pit vanished yesterday when the…

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Sale Opposed. North British Mine

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 20 October 1923 · page 3

Forty-two shareholders with a total [?]770 shares met at Broken Hill to oppose the proposed sale of the North British mine…

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Colliery Award. Abermain No. 1. Conditions Laid Down

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 20 October 1923 · page 6

Mr. Justice Edmunds has given his award in the matter of the Northern Collieries' Association and the Australian Coal and Shale Employees'…

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Oil Fuel. Cheaper Than Coal

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 20 October 1923 · page 9

Extraordinary figures showing the great economy as a result of using off fuel for steamers were supplied to Mr. H. Gregory, M.L.a. while in…

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Maitland Mines. Impressions of New Zealander

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 20 October 1923 · page 3

Mr. B. Davidson a former president of the New Zealand Miner' Federation, who has been visiting the lodges in the Newcastle and Maitland field, is…

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Matches in a Mine. Pelaw-main Cases

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 October 1923 · page 5

Charges of carrying tobacco, matches, and cigarette papers into the Pelaw-Main mine on October 1, 1923, a breach of special rule 75 of the…

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Still Raging. Fire in the Central Mine

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 20 October 1923 · page 4

The manager of the Central Mine. Broken Hill, states that there are no fresh developments regarding the fire…

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Fall of Coal. in Abermain No 1

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 October 1923 · page 14

A huge fall of coal occurred in Abermain No. 1 Colliery on MOnday. The men, about 500 in number, were assembled at the pit-top at…

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Miners' Strike. Cost to the Union £165,000

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 October 1923 · page 3

Speaking at a combined meeting of members of the West Wallsend, Seaham Nos. 1 and 2, Killingworth, and Minmi lodges, held in the West…

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Coal Getting Resumed at Old Greta After Twenty-three Years

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 October 1923 · page 16

Old Greta colliery put out coal on Monday for the first time since the fire in 1900. Thirty-five trucks of coal were sent away…

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Our Telegrams. Lucky: Escape. Fall of Coal at Central Aberdare. Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 20 October 1923 · page 5

Henry Ballam, a miner employed at Central Aberdare Colliery, had a remarkable escape on Friday. He was working in a 25ft bord,…

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To Be Opposed. Miners' General Secretary. Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 22 October 1923 · page 5

Mr. A. C. Willis, General Secretary of the Miner's Federation, will be opposed at the election next month by Mr. H. R. Jones, of Bulli…

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Mine Rescue Apparatus

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 23 October 1923 · page 4

Mr. R. H. Cambage, Under-Secretary Department of Mines, in reply to a communication recently forwarded to him by Mr. J. M. Badedley, states…

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Gold at Mumel

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 23 October 1923 · page 2

"Fossickers" have a firm belief that "big" gold will some day be found at the head waters of the Manning and its tributaries. Old…

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Mine Lighting. Nystagmus Among Employees

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 23 October 1923 · page 6

At the request of the Minister for Mines, Mr. J. C. L. Fitzpatrick, sixteen representatives of the various collieries in the northern, southern,…

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Gold Yield. for the Commonwealth

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 23 October 1923 · page 6

The gold yield of the Commonwealth was small in September. Returns put the total for the nine months to September 30 at 525,157…

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