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Mining & the mines, 1924

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Our Coal Trade Menaced by Oil Coal Activity in New Zealand

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 7 March 1924 · page 10

Mr. John Brown, of Newcastle, who returned from a trip to New Zealand, stated, in the course of an interviewed at Sydney, that…

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Miners Resume. Hebburn and Richmond Main. Kurri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 7 March 1924 · page 4

The Hebburn and Richmond Main miners resumed work this morning…

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The Collieries. Work for Fortnightly Pay

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 8 March 1924 · page 14

Eleven days constituted full time at the collieries in the northern district for the fortnight. Northern Extended, Co-operative, and Duckenfield were…

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Motor Coal Delivery

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 8 March 1924 · page 4

The Maitland and District Motor Com Delivery, which advertises its price list in this issue, intimates that it is prepared to deliver to all…

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Restless. Newcastle Coal Trimmers

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 8 March 1924 · page 16

The coal trimmers employed on the coal-loading dyke at Carrington it is stated are becoming restless because of an alleged insufficient number of…

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Coal Export. Shipments at Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 8 March 1924 · page 2

The quantity of coal shipped at Newcastle during the week for places beyond the State was 99,625 tons of which 84,401 tons represented shipments for…

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Coal Export. Month's Figures for Newcastle

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 8 March 1924 · page 9

The quantity of coal shipped at Newcatle last month for places beyond the State was 423,416 tons, of which 320.988 tons represented…

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Pelaw Main Resumes Nine Other Mines Idle

Singleton Argus · Saturday 8 March 1924 · page 6

Work was resumed on Thursday morning at Pelaw Main, but there were nine other mines idle on the northern coalfields. At North Lambton no work…

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New Demands. Barrier Employees' Claims. Miners 30-Hour Week

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 8 March 1924 · page 9

Fresh claims in respect of wages and conditions have been submitted to the Broken Hill mining companies…

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Warden's Court Thuesday, Maech 6. (Before Mr G. James, Metropolitan Mining Warden.)

Singleton Argus · Saturday 8 March 1924 · page 5

The following applications to enter and prospect for shale and coal were dealt with:— J. M'Geachie (for Norman B…

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Bellbird Colliery

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 10 March 1924 · page 4

It is expected that all will be in readiness for the reopening of Bellbird colliery for inspection purposes early in May, and that the seals will…

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Colliery Idle. Trouble with Wheelers. Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 10 March 1924 · page 5

Aberdare Extended was idle to-day in consequence of trouble with the wheelers. It is expected that the matter will…

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Mine Explosion. Workers Entombed. Vancouver (B.c.) March 8

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 10 March 1924 · page 5

As the result of an expulsion in a mine at Castlegate (Utah), it is reared that 175 entombed miners have lost their lives…

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Fall of Stone. Fatal Mining Accident. the Inquest

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 10 March 1924 · page 6

An Inquest on the death of Leonard Phillip Hill, who was fatally injured by a fall of stone while working in the Lupton Park Colliery…

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Explosives in Mine Two Miners Charged Case Brought as a Deterrent

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 11 March 1924 · page 5

In the Cessnock Police Court this morning, two cases concerning the leaving of explosives in a mine, a practice which is said to be…

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South Greta Miners

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 11 March 1924 · page 4

At a meeting of the South Greta Miners Lodge. Mr. B. Sergent presiding, Mr. C. L. Edwards addressed the members in connection with the…

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Slight Increase. Queensland Gold Yield

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 11 March 1924 · page 7

Queensland gold yield showed a slight increase during February on the corresponding month of last year, but the yield for the first two months of…

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Mining Disaster Many Men Entombed

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 11 March 1924 · page 3

New York, Sunday.-A ,meassage from. Castlegate, Utah, states that it is feared J75 miners are entombed by an explosion in a mine, and have lost, their…

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German Sailors' Pay in Gold, Not Marks. (By Telegraph.) Sydney

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 11 March 1924 · page 2

According to the chief officer of the German steamers Gottiugen and Hanu, which arrived in Sydney yesterday and to-day respectively, strikes, by…

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New Collieries

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 14 March 1924 · page 4

Preparatory work in connection with the opening up of the colliery at Kalingo is being actively pushed on. The main shaft is now down…

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