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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1929

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Cessnock Hospital. Injured Colliery Employees

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 21 September 1929 · page 9

The decision of the Full Court of N.S.W., in holding that payment for treatment of injured colliery employees under the Workmen's…

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Leg Shattered. Mine Engineer Awarded Damages

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 21 September 1929 · page 11

In the No. 2 Jury Causes Court, Sydney, Howard Lister Simmons, of Telarah, who, at the time of the accident complained of had been…

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Gold Yield. Decline in Queensland

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 21 September 1929 · page 1

A further decline occurred in the Queensland gold yield for August, and for the night months ended August 31, compared with the…

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Tariffs and Coal Geneva, Sept. 12

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 21 September 1929 · page 16

At a meeting of the Second Committee of the League Assembly, dealing with the Economics question two important resolutions relating to…

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British Coal Owners' Scheme. Marketing Control LONDON, Sept. 14

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 21 September 1929 · page 16

Though the Government ship hitherto has been carried happily along by the winds of achievement, at The Hague, Geneva, and…

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Mining Committees

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 23 September 1929 · page 4

The meeting of the Committee of Control, which was to have been held in West Maitland to-morrow, has been cancelled. the delegates of the…

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Farmers and Miners Minister's Comparison

Singleton Argus · Monday 23 September 1929 · page 4

At a meeting of farmers of Lower Hunter, held at Morpeth on Friday afternoon, at which the Minister for Agriculture (Mr Thorby) was present,…

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Coal Commission the Term Extended

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 23 September 1929 · page 3

A special government Gazette was issued on Saturday Which extends the term of the Coal Commission from October 3 to November 2…

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Coal Profits Report of Commission. Treasurer Silent SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 23 September 1929 · page 5

The State Treasurer, Mr. Stovens, who has Been the report of the Coal Commission on the Northern coalowners' profits, declined to-day to…

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Coal Commission Report to Be Handed to Governor. Further Inquiries to Be Made

Singleton Argus · Monday 23 September 1929 · page 3

The Treasurer (Mr Stevens); when interviewed at the week-end declined to divulge the contents of the findings of the Royal Commission into the…

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Owners Profits 2/1½ Per Ton. Miners Expected to Return at Reduced Wage. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Monday 23 September 1929 · page 3

The coal report discloses the owners' profits to be 2/l½ per ton. The miners, therefore, will be expected to return to work at a wage…

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Commission's Findings. Mining Unions Not Bound by Decision. Statement by Secretary. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Monday 23 September 1929 · page 3

According to Mr D. J. Davies, secretary of the combined mining union committee, the unions never carried a resolution agreeing to accept the findings…

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Round-Table Conference. Miners and Mine Officials

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 24 September 1929 · page 7

Messrs. Rees and Teece, president and treasurer respectively of the Northern Miners' Federation and officials of the lodge conferred with…

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Miners' Thrift

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 24 September 1929 · page 1

The workmen in the Low Moor coal mine, in Yorkshire (Eng.), after pooling their savings for ten years, bought a nearby coal pit last June. The whole…

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The Coal Trouble. Commission's Report. Profits, 2/1 2 Per Ton Offer to Miners

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 24 September 1929 · page 2

The report of the Royal Commission on the coal industry, now in the hands of the Government, shows that the averages of profits of the coal owners…

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Coal Commission's Report

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 24 September 1929 · page 4

It was hardly to be expected that the minors union offices would, without demur accept the interim report of the Royal Commission on…

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Refusal to Accept Coal Commission's Finding. Mid-Coalfield Miners Solid Reduction. Resolution at Weston To-day

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 24 September 1929 · page 5

The finding of the Coal Commission, a report of which was issued yesterday, met with strong objections…

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English Coal for Broken Hill

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 24 September 1929 · page 6

Sulphide Corporation, Ltd., has remodelled its plant at the Barrier to treat 6000 tons of [?]ore a week, and ore from tine Broken Hill…

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Miners-protest, "Profit Really 3/5½."

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 24 September 1929 · page 6

"The result of the finding by the Royal Commission must surely embarrass the Government," said Messrs D. Ross (general president), and D, J…

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Blue and Gold Ball Brilliant Success

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 24 September 1929 · page 2

On Wednesday night the Blue and Gold ball, promoted by the Dungog Branch of the Country Women's Association was held in Victoria hall…

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