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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1925

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The Local Collieries

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 September 1925 · page 6

The successful working of the local collieries being an important factor in district trade and progress, general satisfaction is caused by the…

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Colliery Disputes

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 September 1925 · page 4

The cause of the stoppage of work at the Neath and Cessnock Collieries will be considered at a compulsory conference which has been summoned…

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Colliery Mechanics

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 September 1925 · page 4

Recently the Colliery Mechanics Mutual Protective Association. Hunter River district, applied to the Federal Arbitration Court for registration…

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Stop Work. Railways and Collieries Affected

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 September 1925 · page 4

Grievances, which it is stated have been in existence for some considerable time, were responsible for a stoppage on the South…

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South Bulli Colliery Trouble. Conciliation Rails

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 September 1925 · page 16

Mr. Hibble has adjourned the Coal Tribunal sine die because the miners at South Bulli Colliery refused to obey its directions on the dispute…

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Mine Stoppages. Mr. Hoare's Allegations

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 September 1925 · page 6

At the sitting of the Coal Tribunal Mr. Hoare, president of the Northern District, said be wished to bring tinder notice the fact that the undermining…

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Miners Collapse. Sudden Death in Surgery

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 September 1925 · page 13

John Oliver Johnson, aged 49, aminer, living at Railway street, Glebe, visited the surgery of Dr. T. Ewing. at the Union Bank chambers,…

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Nystagmus. Cause Amongst Miners. Ophthalmic Opinion

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 September 1925 · page 14

That defective illumination was the main cause of miners' nystagmus was the opinion expressed by Dr. Rowland Pittar, ophthalmic surgeon, when…

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Safety in Mines. Open Lights Opposed

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 September 1925 · page 8

Giving evidence before the Royal Commission inquiring into the question of safety in coal mines, George Batey, secretary of the United…

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Mount Morgan. Mine to Be Flooded. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 September 1925 · page 5

The secretary of the Mount Morgan Gold Mining Company, Limited, issued the following advice from Sydney office:—…

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Baths at Mines. Minister Considering Legislation?. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 September 1925 · page 16

In reply to Mr. Davies in the Legislative Assembly to-day, the Minister, for Mines, Mr. Buddeley, said that he has been considering the question of…

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British Labour Seamen and Miners. Movement of Vessels. CAPETOWN, Sept. 18

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 September 1925 · page 5

The Minister for Labour (Colonel Creswell) left Pretoria by special train for Durban this afternoon, on business relating to the strike…

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Commissioners Coal. Northern Mine Suggested. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 22 September 1925 · page 5

In the Legislative Assembly to-day, Mr. Murray asked the Minister for Mines, in view of the success of the mid[?] of the State and mine…

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Colliery Stoppages

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 22 September 1925 · page 4

A compulsory conference was held at the Newcastle rooms of the Northern Collieres' Association, in connection, with the steppages at the Neath…

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Colliery Stoppages Neath and Cessnock

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 22 September 1925 · page 5

A compulsory conference was held at the Newcastle rooms of the Northern Collieries Association, yesterday, in connection with the…

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Forest Gold. Canada's Products

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 22 September 1925 · page 2

Think of 5,000 freight trains of 500 cars each hauling 10,000,000 tons of a single product! It might, almost be put down as some roseate dream…

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Study of Coal by American Professor

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 22 September 1925 · page 2

The composition of Australian coal, flora, and the extinct softwood trees, con[?]fers—intensely interesting to the biologist—will occupy Professor E. C…

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Mount Mobgan Mine. Fires Still Raging. Sydney

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 22 September 1925 · page 1

The fire at the Mount Morgan mine is still raging. It has been decided to draw water from the company's big dam in order…

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Putting Years on Coal Electrical Power and Prosperity

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 22 September 1925 · page 7

The recent conferences between mine owners and miners serve to remind us that, after all, this is an age of electricity and the Diesel…

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Accident Relief. Condition of Miners' Fund. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 23 September 1925 · page 5

Replying to Mr. Horsington in the Legislative Assembly to-day, the Minister for Mines, Mr. Baddeley, said the Mines Accident Relief Fund…

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