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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1931

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Warden's Court Authority to Enter Search for Coal

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 January 1931 · page 7

Warden A. N. Graham presided at a sitting of the Warden's Court at East Maitland. Edwin Elliott applied for authority…

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Still Unsettled Welsh Coal Dispute LONDON. Jan. 9

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 10 January 1931 · page 1

The anticipated settlement of the South Wales coal dispute at to-day's meeting of the owners and unions representatives did…

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Officials Man Train Miners Refuse to Ride Hebburn Dispute Weston

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 January 1931 · page 12

As the result of the dismissal or the engine-driver and shunter at Hebburn No. 1, drivers and firemen on the loco at Hebburn Nos. 1 and 2…

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Bank Rate Reduced in France Gold Movements London, Jan. 4

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 January 1931 · page 11

The French bank rate has been reduced from 2 1/2 to 2 per cent. It was reduced from 3 to. 2 1/2 per cent, on May 2 last year…

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Developments Expected in Hebburn Dispute Trouble May Spread Miners' Lodges Meet Dismissal of Member Weston

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 January 1931 · page 6

Members of Hebburn Nos. 1 and 2 Miners' Lodges met in Weston School of Arts yesterday afternoon to discuss the…

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Rich Find On W.A. Goldfield

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 10 January 1931 · page 6

An 80-ounce slug was found on Mr. D, Brown's lease at the alluvial And at Larkinville, near Kalgoorlie, yesterday…

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Mining Directors

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 12 January 1931 · page 4

The directors of the companies interested in the coal mining merger that has been before the public lately paid a visit to Richmond Main and Pelaw…

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Gold Bounty Council for Industry

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 12 January 1931 · page 4

Draft regulations to be issued under the Gold Bounty Act were discussed in Melbourne by the newly formed Gold industry Advisory…

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F. Williams Outright Winner of Maitland Gold Cup Art Fenn's Great Riding Fen McGovern Wins Handicap Final Improved Organisation

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 12 January 1931 · page 6

The crowd was on its toes as the red and the red and black jacketed riders battled for supremacy. The pink and black stars have dropped out of the race, the machine breaking down under the strain of this mad tussle. What a dare-devil,…

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Mining Position

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 13 January 1931 · page 2

The mining position does not appear showing to be showing any signs of improvement Hopes, are entertained that as the year progresses there will…

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Extended Mine Idle. Men Come Home

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 13 January 1931 · page 2

The Aberdare Extended [?] was idle to-day owing to the action of the men in deciding that the water from the dam was not fit for washing in…

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Miners' Request a Clean Bath Aberdare Extended Idle CESSNOCK

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 13 January 1931 · page 4

Protesting that dead animals and sanitary tins are in the colliery dam from which Aberdare Extended miners receive the…

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Hebburn Collieries

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 14 January 1931 · page 8

Hebburn Nos. 1 and 2 are both working to-day. Owing to a flaw in the Act, the benefit of the Gold Bounty Bill…

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Work Resumed Broken Hill Miners Broken Hill

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 14 January 1931 · page 6

The North and South mines and the Zinc Corporation reopened to-day. This decision was reached after a…

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Work Stopped Miners Protest Against Wage Tax Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 14 January 1931 · page 5

A stoppage, occurred at the South Clifton Mine on the South Coast, because the Taxation Commissioner (Mr. McMahon) insisted…

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Fire at Gundy Northern Miners' Hotel Destroyed. Gundy

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 14 January 1931 · page 2

The Northern Miners' Hotel, comprising 20 rooms, was destroyed by fire about 1.30 this morning. There being no water supply, it was…

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Miners' Paper Closed

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 15 January 1931 · page 8

The British Miners' Federation's weekly newspaper, "The Miner," is published for the last time (says the "colliery Guardian"). Mr. T…

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Hoover on Coal

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 15 January 1931 · page 8

A belief that the administration has in mind recommendations looking to modification of the anti-Trust laws, so as to eliminate destructive…

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Canadian Coal Trade

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 15 January 1931 · page 4

The depressed condition of the coalmining industry in the Canadian West is being Investigated by the Dominion Government. Mr. E. B…

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Mining News

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 15 January 1931 · page 8

It may be interesting to know that Stanford Merthyr No. 1 Colliery averaged ten day's work every fortnight for…

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