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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1925

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Rescue Stations. Establishment in Mines. Question in Assembly

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 26 March 1925 · page 4

In the Legislative Assembly, Mr. J. M. Baddeley asked the Minister for Mines if he would take the necessary steps to immediately establish…

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Hebburn Colliery

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 27 March 1925 · page 4

At the monthly meeting of Hebburn No.1 Miners Lodge, there was a large attendance of members, and important business was transacted…

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Oil and Coal Prospects

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 27 March 1925 · page 5

An application has been lodged with the Warden at Maitland by Mr. Henry Elliott, of Greta, on behalf of the Hunter River Oil Company, for…

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Sea-water Improves Coal

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 27 March 1925 · page 6

Work which has of late years been Accomplished in recovering cargoes of coal from sunken vessels has tended to show that the combustion of the…

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Another Coal Mike. One of the Biggest in the Commonwealth

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 27 March 1925 · page 2

Within 18 months, it is expected that coal will be raised from the John Darling Colliery, near Belmont, the first of the collieries to be sunk by…

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Abermain Colliery. Coal Tribunal Sits

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 28 March 1925 · page 16

A sitting of the Coal Tribunal was held at the Newcastle rooms of the Northern Collieries' Association in connection with the question of the…

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Gold Coin. Importations From South Africa

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 28 March 1925 · page 16

Large consignments of gold coin were brought by the steamer Persic, which has arrived in Melbourne from Liverpool and South Africa…

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Rescue Stations. Establishment in Mines. Questions in Assembly

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 28 March 1925 · page 5

In the legislative Assembly, Mr. J. M. Baddeley asked the Minister for Mines if the would take the necessary steps to immediately establish…

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British Politics Gold Standard. Cabinet's Attitude. LONDON, March 26

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 28 March 1925 · page 5

Replaying to question in the House of commons the chancellor of the Exchange (Mr. winston churchill) said he was anxious to announce the…

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Gold Standard British Industry. Conflicting Views. LONDON, March 18

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 28 March 1925 · page 12

There has been considerable dismission in financial and political circles regarding the gold standard. The Federation of British…

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Mining Disaster. Fifty Men Killed. London, March 27

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 28 March 1925 · page 2

Reuter's correspondent at strasbourg says that while a cage was ascending the Reumaux pit in the sarre and Mosello district with 80…

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Idle Collieries. Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 30 March 1925 · page 4

Bellbird Colliery was idle to-day. The trouble has arisen over the question of dust on the travelling road. It is considered unlikely that…

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Minimum Wage for Miners. Rejected in Commons. London, March 27

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 30 March 1925 · page 5

The House of Commons by 208 votes to 143 rejected a motion by Mr. Walsh (Labour), for the second reading of the Coal Mines Minimum Wage Bill,…

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Gold From Mercury. What It May Mean to Us

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 30 March 1925 · page 8

A tiny orange gleam leaped out from a seething mass of metal in a quartz retort a few weeks ago. The fleeting brilliance of that gleam may…

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Collieries Idle

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 31 March 1925 · page 4

Aberdare and Bellbird Collieries were idle yesterday and to-day. The trouble at Aberdare is said to be the condition of the pit horses, and at…

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Coal Shipments

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 31 March 1925 · page 4

The coal shipments at Newcastle last week amounted to 75,393 ton's of which 70,135 tons represented shipments for Commonwealth and New…

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Coal Tropliv for Maitland Show

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 31 March 1925 · page 4

The secretary of the H.R.A. and H Association Mr. John S. Hoskins, was recently in communication with a representative colliery…

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Mine Tragedy Trapped Miners. Desperate Situation. LONDON, March 30

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 1 April 1925 · page 5

Thirty-three miners were trapped in Montague pit. Scotswood, near Newcastle, owing to the inflow of water due to holing…

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Idle Collieries. Bellbird and Aberdare. Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 1 April 1925 · page 4

Bellbird Colliery was again idle to-day over the question of dust in the travelling road. Aberdare miners attended at the…

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Coal Export. Shipments From Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 1 April 1925 · page 7

The quantity of coal shipped at Newcastle during last month for places beyond the State was 357,792 tons, of which 300,490 tons…

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