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Mining & the mines, 1925

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Coal Export. Shipments From Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 25 April 1925 · page 6

The quantity of coal exported at Newcastle during the week for places beyond the State was 98,810 tons, of which 91,330 tons represented…

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Coal Substitute. Austrian Discovery. London, April 20

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 April 1925 · page 2

A message from Vienna states that the press is jubilating over a young chemist's discovery of a process, for carbonising…

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Gold for Australia. Capetown, April 25

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 27 April 1925 · page 5

The P. and O. liner Benalla, which sailed to-day carried gold valued at 1,000,000 for Australia. This is the most…

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Sterling Rises New York Advance. Gold Standard Expectations. New York, April 25

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 27 April 1925 · page 5

Sterling to-day established a new high record for the period since 1915, the exchange rate being 4.81¾ dollars to £1…

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Miners Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 28 April 1925 · page 4

James Perry, a miner, residing at Hunter-street, West Maitland, and employed in Richmond Main Colliery, slipped on a piece of coal in the…

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Further Gold Shipment

Singleton Argus · Thursday 30 April 1925 · page 2

The Federal Treasury officials state that an additional £1,000,000 in gold which just left South Africa for Australia bring the total shipment of gold…

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Gold Standard Restored Again. Great World-wide Effect. LONDON, April 28

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 30 April 1925 · page 5

Mr. Churchill, in announcing the return to the gold standard, said, during his Budget speech in the House of Commons, that such a return had…

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Aberdare South Colliery. Miners Re-employed

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Friday 1 May 1925 · page 7

Periodically the management of the Aberdare South Colliery are re-employing the miners and other men whom they put off some time ago…

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A Violent Blow. Miners Skull Fractured. £30 Compensation Allowed

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Friday 1 May 1925 · page 8

At the Cessnock Police Court, on Tuesday, before Mr. H. T .W. Fletcher P.M., Richard Edward Robinson who was represented by Mr. Barfield…

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Settlement Effected. South Coast Mines

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 May 1925 · page 3

The following official announcement was made by the Southern Coalowners' Association: "The maters in dispute at seven collieries of the South…

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Brown Coal. South Australian Fields

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 May 1925 · page 11

Dr. Hegman, engineer in charge of briquetting research for the State Electricity Commission of Victoria, who has been investigating the brown…

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Coal Export. Shipments From Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 2 May 1925 · page 3

The amount of coal shipped at Newcastle during the week for places beyond the State was 88,425 tons, of which 85,345 tons represented…

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Gold for Australia. Capetown, April 25

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 May 1925 · page 12

The P. and O. liner Benalla, which sailed to-day, carried gold valued at £1,000,000 for Australia. This is the most…

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Sterling Rises New York Advance. Gold Standard Expectations. New York, April 25

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 May 1925 · page 12

Sterling to-day established a new high record for the period since 1915, the exchange rate being 4.81¾ dollars to £1…

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Greta Collieries' Band

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 4 May 1925 · page 4

Greta Collieries Band, at their weekly practice, tendered a welcome home to Mr. A. Mardon, who has been away with Newcastle Steel Works…

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Fire in Mine. Timely Discovery at Broken Hill

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 4 May 1925 · page 2

A fire broke out in the South mine (Broken Hill) early on Saturday morning but it was promptly extinguished by Proto men it had done much…

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Gold in Siberia. Company's Agreement. London, May 1

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 4 May 1925 · page 2

Reuter's correspondent at Moscow says Representatives of the Soviet's Lena Goldfield company have signed a draft agreement for…

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Fire in Mine

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 5 May 1925 · page 2
Also in The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder

A Broken Hill message states that a fire occurred on 1170ft. level of South Mine at about 1.30 o'clock on Saturday morning…

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Collieries Idle. Trouble with Wheelers. Kurru

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 May 1925 · page 5

Richmond Main and Hobburn No. 1 were idle to-day, the former, it is stated, because a wheeler was given a lamp other than his own, which could…

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