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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1927

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Miners Go Home. Trouble at Aberdare Extended. Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 11 July 1927 · page 5

Disputes are becoming of daily occurrence at Aberdare Extended Colliery. Last Friday trouble over pay-Saturday rights was responsible for…

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Miner Fined. Stemming Shot Hole with Coal Dust. Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 11 July 1927 · page 5

For stemming a shot hole in a mine with coal dust, Joseph Graham Stallard, a miner, at Hillside Colliery was fined £1, in Newcastle…

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More Wages. Demand by Section of Colliery Workers

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 12 July 1927 · page 2

A conference representing the offhand labor in collieries on the northern field, was held at Weston on Sunday. It was stated that the average weekly…

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More Wages Demand by Section of Colliery Workers

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 12 July 1927 · page 3

A conference representing the offhand labor in collieries on the Northern field, was held at Weston on Sunday. It was stated that the average weekly…

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Drifting Mine Relic of the "Wolf."

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 12 July 1927 · page 4

A floating mine, which is believed to have been laid by the German raider Wolf, during the war, has been discovered on the South Coast, seven miles…

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Price of Coal. Advance of 6d a Ton

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 12 July 1927 · page 6

The Northern Collieries' Association announces that the declared selling price of coal at the Dyke, Newcastle, f.a.c. on and from Monday next, will…

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Price of Coal. Effect of Child Endowment. Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 12 July 1927 · page 5

The increase in the price of coal is due, the colliery proprietors say, to the effect of the Child Endowment scheme, which will entail a burden…

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Wingen Coal Company

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 13 July 1927 · page 4

A company, comprising mostly Scone shareholders, has been formed, called the Wingen Coal Development Company, Limited. for the purpose…

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Floating Mine. Report Not Confirmed

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 13 July 1927 · page 6

It has not yet been ascertained whether the object which was sighted seven iniles to the, south of Twofold Boy at 5 p.m. on Thursday last…

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Miners' Accident Relief

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 July 1927 · page 4

The allowances paid to beneficiaries under the Miners' Accident Relief (Repeal) Act during last, year amounted to £21,473/1/4. The…

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MINERS v Mechanics Richmond Main Trouble. Miners Lodge Meets

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 July 1927 · page 2

A special meeting of the Richmond-Main Miners Lodge was held in the Kurri Kurri Schol of Arts to receive a report from the central council…

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Sinking for Coal

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 July 1927 · page 6

A syndicate is now engaged sinking a, shaft in Mr. E. T. Sattler's paddock, near Hebden-road, Ravens-worth, close to the railway. Great…

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South Greta Miners' Lodge

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 July 1927 · page 4

At a combined meeting be the South Greta Miners' Lodge, held at Homeville, a vote of confidence in Mr. Walter O'Hcarn, M. L. A., was…

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Coal Prices to Be Increased

Singleton Argus · Thursday 14 July 1927 · page 3

On and after Monday the selling prices of the three grades of northern coal will be increased by sixpence per ton. This was decided on at a…

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Over-production Coal Trouble in Britain. London, July 12

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 July 1927 · page 10

A long debate took place in the [?]ouse of Commons, to-day on the situation in the coal trade The Opposition direction attention, to its…

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Elrington Colliery

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 15 July 1927 · page 7

Good progress is being made with the sinking of the shafts at the Elrington Colliery, the B.H.P. Co's new mine at Kearsley. One shaft is…

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Work Resumed Aberdare Extended Colliery

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 15 July 1927 · page 6

Aberdare Extended Colliery, which had been idle for four days owing to a dispute in connection with damaged skips, resumed work yesterday…

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Coal-Price Increased

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 15 July 1927 · page 9

An all-round increase of /6 per ton in the price of coal hass been decided upon by the Northern Collieries' Association. It was announced by the…

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Was It a Silly Joke ? Incident at Bellbird Colliery

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Friday 15 July 1927 · page 4

While a number of employees at Bellbird Colliery were warming themselves around a fire on Wednesday morning prior to entering the mine,…

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Welsh Miners' Wives. Why They Object to Baths

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 15 July 1927 · page 11

Mr. George Waite, late assistant secrotary of the United Laborers' Protective (Society of N.S. Wales, has been visiting the Welsh mining districts, and…

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