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Mining & the mines, 1924

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Mine Disaster. Gas Explosion in Japan One Hundred Entombed. SHANGHAI, Jan. 6

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 January 1924 · page 12

Reuter's Tokyo correspondent, in a message from Sapporo Hokaido, states that more than one hundred miners were entombed, and are…

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Collieries' Staffs Annual Re-union

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 14 January 1924 · page 2

The annual reunion of the United Collieries' Staffs. Association of New South Wales was held on Saturday. Mr. James Campbell presided, and…

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Mine Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 14 January 1924 · page 4

William Thomas Parkinson (21), a miner employed at the Central Greta Colliery and residing in Cliff-st., Greta, had his leg broken by a fall of…

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Minmi Colliery. to Be Closed

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 14 January 1924 · page 2

Mr. John Brown, who soiled by the steamer Niagara from Sydney for Zealand on Thursday, left instructions to inform Mr. Welford, the manager…

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Muswellbrook Colliery Smaller Railway Order. Mine Adversely Affected

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 15 January 1924 · page 3

Consternation prevailed in town yesterday afternoon when it became known that 130 miners engaged at the Muswellbrook Colliery had been…

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Muswellbrook Colliery the Question of Unionism. What Miners Say

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 15 January 1924 · page 1

When spoken to concerning the reduction of miners employed at the Muswellbrook Colliery some miners stated that the question of the…

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Colliery Stoppages

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 15 January 1924 · page 4

The Aberdare Central was idle yesterday and to-day owing to some trouble which developed after the men went to the pit yesterday…

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Newcastle Coal Mining Co. Half-yearly Report

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 15 January 1924 · page 2

The Newcastle Coal Mining Company, for the half year ended Dec. 31, shows a profit of £5290, compared with £1963 for the…

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Accident at Bellbird Mine

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 15 January 1924 · page 4

A man named McDonald, employed at the Bellbird Collier, had his toes badly crushed yesterday as a result of being run over by a…

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Lupton Park Colliery Reported Negotiations for Sale

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 15 January 1924 · page 1

We understand that several persons occupying a high position in the management of the coal mining industry on the Maitland field, have…

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Colliery Closes Down. To-day and To-morow

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 15 January 1924 · page 1

Yesterday the miners were informed that there would be no work at the colliery to-day or to-morrow. Mining operations will be resumed on…

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Minmi May Close. More Mine Trouble

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 15 January 1924 · page 2

Because it is said there is too much coal being produced at the present time there is a probability that Minmi mine will close down…

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Miners Hold Meeting. to Decide Further Course of Ac[?]on

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 15 January 1924 · page 1

The dismissal notices were the chief cause for a meeting, of miners held in Mr. G. W. McKenzie's Picture Theatre on Sunday last…

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Across the Continent From East to West. Gosford to Perth (West Australia) and Back. No. 5 (Continued from previous issue.) the Mining Industry

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 15 January 1924 · page 3

The first gold rush in Western Australia occurred in the year 1886, and strangely enough was in the most remote portion of the State…

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Muswellbròok Colliery 130 Miners Given Notice

Singleton Argus · Thursday 17 January 1924 · page 2

One hundred and thirty miners engaged at the Muswellbrook Colliery have been given l4 days' notice. The action was found necessary by the…

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Muswellbrook Letter the Muswellbrook Colliery. Muswellbrook

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 18 January 1924 · page 6

Official information directly conveyed is to the effect that the reason for the directors of the Muswellbrook Colliery having given the miners a…

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Mining Position. Ballot for Strike. London. Jan. 17

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 18 January 1924 · page 5

It is officially announced that the miners' ballot resulted in 510,000 for and 114,000 against giving three months' notice to terminate the…

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State Coal Mine. Position at Baraiba

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 January 1924 · page 11

Officials of the Mines Department deny any knowledge of the reported impending closure of the Baralba State coal mine…

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Colliery Accidents

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 January 1924 · page 4

Two accidents occurred at Hebburn Colliery yesterday. Mr. Watty White, a machine-man, sustained internal injuries, the result of a blow in the…

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Collieries Staffs Annual Re-union

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 January 1924 · page 14

The annual reunion of the United Collieries' Staff's Association of New South Wales was held on Saturday. Mr. James Campbell presided, and…

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