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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1932

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Coal Export Northern Mines 1,960,099 Tons Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 1 January 1932 · page 6

During 1931, the quantity of cast Including bunkers, Shipped at New castle for places beyond the State was 1,960,099 tons. The only…

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PATRIOTIC Gifts to Nation Melting Gold London, December 31

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 2 January 1932 · page 1

A big gold rush is occurring in the furnace rooms of Hatton Garden, where thousands of pounds worth of old brooches, bangles, rings, and…

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Colliery Worker Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 5 January 1932 · page 5

Malcolm Smith, 34, of Anstey-street, Cessnock, was admitted to the local hospital to-day with injuries to his back. Smith is employed…

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CESSNOCK Collieries Resume CESSNOCK, Yuesday

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 January 1932 · page 5

All the collieries in the Cassnock district that are actively engaged in production resumed operations yesterday after the customary ton days…

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Miners' Officials Return

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 5 January 1932 · page 3

Mr. D. Martin ran Mr. Bondy Hoare a good race for the presidency of the miners. Mr. Martin secured 2264 votes to Mr. Hoare's 2677. He…

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RE-ELECTED Miners' Officers Ballot Result

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 January 1932 · page 6

Mr. T. Hoars, nominated by South Seaham Lodge, has been re-elected president of the Northern branch of the Miners' Federation. He received…

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Charge Against Deputy Alleged Failure to Inspect Mine

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 5 January 1932 · page 3

At the Cessnock Courthouse to-day Matthew Wilson, a deputy employed at Millfield-Greta Colliery, and residing at Paxton, was proceeded…

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Rich Gold Philippines Find New York, Jan, 4

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 January 1932 · page 2

The Now York "Times" Publishes a message from Manila, stating that the Big Wodge Mining Company, operating near Dagufo, reports that…

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Disaster in Coal Mine Galleries Collapse. (Australian Press Assn. Message.) Berlin

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 6 January 1932 · page 1

Believed to be due to an earth tremor, the underground galleries in the Karsiten coalmine, near Beuthen, collapsed, interning 15 in the mass of…

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CESSNOCK Mine Accidents CESSNOCK

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 6 January 1932 · page 5

Two colliery employees were yesterday admitted to Cessnock Hospital, Maloolm Smith, 24, a boiler cleaner, sustained injuries to the back at…

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Gold Standard WASHINGTON, Jan. 5

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 6 January 1932 · page 1

Mr. Otto Kahn, banker, told the Senate finance committed that there was no reason why the United States…

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Oil From Coal New Industry Research Work

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 6 January 1932 · page 8

Hope has not yet been given up for the establishment of an industry for the extraction of oil from coal. Research work is…

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Ruhr Clash Miners and Pickets Communists Again London, Jan. 5

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 6 January 1932 · page 8

Communist disorders have broken out in the Ruhr and Aix -la- Chapello districts, supplementing an attempt to cripple shipping by a strike of…

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Rocky River New Mining Venture ARMIDALE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 4

A company has been formed in Sydney to develop a gold-mining prepostition at at Rockey River, Uralla. Fifty years ago…

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Off Gold Appeal by Smuts the Alternative Capetown, Jan, 6

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 1

A number of farmers meetings declared against the Government adhering to the gold standard, culminating in a…

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MINING Gold and Diamonds Northern Activity

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 3

Opinion is expressed by prominent mining men that the Armidale Gully Gold Mine, the most, promising in tho district,…

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Colliery Employee Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 2

William Rowbottom, 60, of Ann-street, Cessnock, to-day received a severe scalp wound, caused by a fail of coal at Abermain No. 2 Colliery…

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Mining Notes

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 3

The conditions favour a much better year for the coal trade than last year was. Persons who are in a position to know declare that the mines…

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Miners' Ballot Northern Councillors Group Totals

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 6

The result of the ballot for the of fices of councilor and member of the committee of management of the northern branch of the Miners'…

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Miners' Federation. MR. P. Robb Re-elected

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 2

Mr. P. Robb was yesterday re-elected northern district councillor on the management committee of the central council of the Miners' Federation…

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