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Mining & the mines, 1925

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Abermain Seaham Collieries

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 6 October 1925 · page 4

Abermain Seaham Collieries, Ltd., in its third report collieries, the year ended August 31, disclosed a not profit of £120,255. An interim…

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Miners' Aggregate Meeting. Demand for Minimum Wage Claims Before Coal Tribunal

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 6 October 1925 · page 5

Aggregate meetings were held at various centres of the coalfield yesterday in connection with the delay in having the claims of the off-hand…

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Off-hand Labor. Coal-miners' Attitude. Motion Defeated. West Maitland

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 6 October 1925 · page 5

An aggregate meeting of colliery employees to consider the claims of off-hand labor was held here to-day, but the attendance was small. W…

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Old King Coal

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 6 October 1925 · page 6

One is apt to regard the coal trade as an entirely modern development, but it is, in fact, one of Britain's oldest industries. The Newcastle…

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Mining Teacher Honoured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 6 October 1925 · page 4

Mr. S. Hodson, mining teacher at West Wallsend, who has been promoted to the Cessnock area, was entertained by the citizens at a…

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Coal Lumpers. Take a Hand in Seamen's Dispute. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 6 October 1925 · page 5

The coal lumpers refused to supply labour for the mail Steamer Orvicto, and the vessel is now in the stream. Other arrangements will be made to…

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Cessnock and Bellbird Collieries

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 7 October 1925 · page 4

The sitting which was to have taken place in Newcastle on Friday next in connection with certain claims from these collieries will now…

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Orvieto's Coal Supplies Refused

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 7 October 1925 · page 7

The Australian seamen have refused to allow the Orvieto to coal, Members of the Coal Lumpers" Union have intimated that they are not…

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Coal By-products. Proposed Extraction of Oil

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 7 October 1925 · page 2

In the Legislative Assembly, Mr. Davis moved, "That, in the opinion of this House, the time has arrived when an export should be appointed…

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Fettler Killed. Run Down by Mail Train. Leaves Mine Children. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 7 October 1925 · page 5

Percival Brennan, a railway fettier, was riding a tricycle near Cowan this morning, when he was overtaken by the North-Western mail train…

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Shipping Strike Serious Development. Action by Coal Lumpers

Singleton Argus · Thursday 8 October 1925 · page 2

A serious development took place in connection with the shipping trouble in Sydney on Tuesday. The Orient liner Orviete is lying in…

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Coal

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 9 October 1925 · page 4

Professor E. C. Jeffrey, of Harvard University, United States of America, delivered the first of a series of four public lectures under the auspices of the Sydney…

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Rothbury Miners' Lodge

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 9 October 1925 · page 4

Mr. E. B. Harkness, Under-Secretary, Chief Secretary's Office, has informed Mr. W. F. O'Hearn, M.L.A., that he had been directed by the…

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Miners' Claims Arbitration Question

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 9 October 1925 · page 9

Mr. Arkins asked Mr. Baddeley, the Minister for Mines and Labour and Industry, in the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday, if his attention had been…

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No Star-viewing in Mines

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 9 October 1925 · page 2

In descending a mine shaft the contrast between a star and the sky background is not changed, according to Mr. C. C. Wylie, a scientific…

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Mining Danger Signal

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 9 October 1925 · page 2

Tested as a danger signal, a quart of ethyl mercaptan was lately distributed as vapour by the ventilating system throughout the 80 acres of…

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Miners and Seamen Assistance to Strikers

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 9 October 1925 · page 9

The British seamen's dispute was one of the matters discussed at a meeting of the central council of the Miners' Federation on Tuesday…

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Coal By-products Motion in Parliament

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 9 October 1925 · page 9

In the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday Mr. Davies moved: "That the time has arrived when an expert should be appointed to inquire into…

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Coal Haulage. From Northern District Collieries

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 October 1925 · page 8

An appendix attached to the report of the Railway Commissioners for the year ended June 30 last, shows that 6,262,109 tons of coal…

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Shipping Dispute. Coal Lumpers Firm. Will Not Coal the Orvieto

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 10 October 1925 · page 2

It now appears definite that the Orvieto will not be coaled by member of the Sydney Coal Lumpers' Union…

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