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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1930

1,666 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 55 of 84

Aberdare Colliery Idle Dispute Over Concessions

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 4 July 1930 · page 4

Aberdare Colliery was idle to-day. The men claimed that certain confessions they were entitled to were not being paid to them…

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800 Gold Prospectors Out

The Scone Advocate · Friday 4 July 1930 · page 7

Eight hundred men, with Government assistance, are searching for gold in N.S.W., under the scheme inauguated by the Minister for Mines (Mr…

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Coal Freights. Rates to Apply

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 4 July 1930 · page 2

Reductions in railway charges for the carriage and cranage of coal made by the State Government as its contribution towards the…

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Coal By-products Weston Progress Interested

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 4 July 1930 · page 3

Weston Progress Association is one of the bodies alive in the nossib[?] of coal by products being established on the South Maitland coalfield…

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Coal Trade. "Shaping Well," Says Owners' Chief

The Scone Advocate · Friday 4 July 1930 · page 2

"There is ample evidence that we will get back nil our coal trade,." states Mr. McDonald,. Chairman, of the Northern Collieries Association…

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Wage Reduction. Mining Industry Conference Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 4 July 1930 · page 5

Mining Industry union officials gencrally, are hopeful that the compulsory conference between representatives of the Miners' Federation and…

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Mining Industry Deadlock May Be Averted. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Friday 4 July 1930 · page 6

The Mining Industry Union oflicids are generally hopeful that the com'pulsory conference between represenlatives of the Miners' Fodcintion and…

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Rothbury Colliery

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 5 July 1930 · page 6

Rothbury Colliery has resumed operations with its former employees. A number of these started on thursday, and it is hoped that more will…

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Grave Allegations Mungana Mines Inquiry. Royal Commission's Report. Messrs. Theodore and McCORMACK IMPUGNED

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 5 July 1930 · page 8

Mr. Justice Campbell, who was appointed a Royal Commissioner by the Queensland Government to inquire into certain matters relating to the sale of Mungana mining leases has furnished his report to the Government. In this, serious…

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Collieries' Staff Association

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 7 July 1930 · page 4

The nan-yearly meeting of the United Collieries' Staff Association was held in camera at West Maitland on Saturday night. The secretary…

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The Mines. Maitland Main Idle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 7 July 1930 · page 5

Maitland Main mine, where Henry Lowis, who was killed on the railway line at Paxton yesterday, worked as a miner, was idle to-day in…

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Loss of Tools. Miners Seek Compensation

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 7 July 1930 · page 8

A doputation waited on Mr. O'Hoatn M.L.A., in connection will the loss bu the miners of tolls at Glen Greta and Glen Ayr Collieries…

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South Coast Mines. Case for Arbitration Court. Woolongong

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 7 July 1930 · page 5

The miners' ludges held a meeting throughout the South Coast district yesterday and unanimously carried resolutions clecting the district…

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Owners' Claims to Be Opposed South Coast Miners' Lodges Meet. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Monday 7 July 1930 · page 2

Miners' lodges throughout the South Coast held meetings yesterday, and unanimously carried a resolution, direct; ing the district, officers' to oppose in…

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10,000 Less Unemployed Due to Resumption of Northern Mines. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Monday 7 July 1930 · page 2

According to the official estimate made by the Department of Labour, and industry, the number of unemployed in New South Wales at the end of…

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Liddell Coal Mine. Big Developments

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 8 July 1930 · page 1

Big developments have taken place in connection with the Liddell coal mine. A short rail of lines has been constructed from the main line to the…

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Two Miners Hurt Fall of Coal at Bellbird

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 8 July 1930 · page 4

As a result of a fall of coal at Bellbird Colliery to-day, Martin Drain, 32, of Church-street, Cessnock, and Sneddon Anderson, 51, Daniel-street, West…

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Southern Miners to Fight

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 8 July 1930 · page 5

The miners lodges throughout the South Coast, have directed the district officers to oppose in the Arbitration Court the owners [?] for a…

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Gold Hunting. 800 Men Now Engaged

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 8 July 1930 · page 3

The Minister for Mines (Mr. Weaver), roplying to a welcome by the Mayor at Lithgow, said that 800 men were engaged in gold hunting…

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All Back at Work Aberdare and Extended Mines

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 8 July 1930 · page 5

All the employees of the Aberdare and Aberdare Extended Collieries who were working when the mines closed down are back at their posts, In this…

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