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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1932

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Lyons Government Suffers Defeat in Senate Not Vital Gold Bounty Surprise Vote Canberra

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 30 September 1932 · page 1

Tho defeat of the Government on the amendment of the gold bounty clauses of the Financial Emergency Bill in…

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New Guinea Goldfield Edie Creek an El Dorado. Maitland Man's Story

The Scone Advocate · Friday 30 September 1932 · page 4

Gold! Gold! Gold! The all-absorbing urge to discover the yellow metal has driven men from the icy waters of the Arctic to the torrid swamps of…

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Arm Injured Slipped in Colliery GRETA

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 1 October 1932 · page 1

Mr. William [?] Lewis, a surveyor at Whitburn Colliory, received a probable fracture of the right forearm whon he slipped and fell…

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Coal Haulage Cessnock Inquiries

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 1 October 1932 · page 7

The Cessnook Chamber of Commerce writing to the Newcastle Chamber asked to be informed how matters stood in regard to the…

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Like Volcano Hill End Colliery Sealing Down Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 1 October 1932 · page 7

Hill End Collory resembles an active volcann. So sorlous has the position become that the company is removing anything of value from the…

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Mine Mechanics Variation of Award the Claims

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

The hearing of claims for a variation of the Collery Mechanics' (North) award has been adjourned until Tuesday by the…

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Hill End Mine Grant for Filling CESSNOCK

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 3 October 1932 · page 5

A grant of £250 has been made by the Government to abate the nuisance caused by fumes at Hill End Colliery…

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Coal Thefts Four Men Fined NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 3 October 1932 · page 1

At 6 a.m. on Saturday four [?] west to the Government coal stack at Carrington and each took a bag of coal, [?] in weight, valued at…

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Colliery Resumes

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 4 October 1932 · page 2

After a long period of Idleness, the Invincible Colliery at Lithgow has restarted with 70 men. When resumption in complete about 140 men will…

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Millfield Colliery

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 4 October 1932 · page 2

Millfield Miners' Lodge officials met the manager yesterday to discuss the position at the mine Officials Were informed by the manager that be…

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Seal Colliery Government Grant SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 4 October 1932 · page 5

Mr. Vincent, replying to Mr. Baddeley in the Legislative Assembly said that the Government had decided to make a grant for the purpose of…

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Work at the Mines

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 4 October 1932 · page 3

Particulars or the workings at the various mines in the Northern district are as under:— Abermain No. 2, Abermain No. 8,…

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Back to Work Committee Meets Dewatering Mines

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 4 October 1932 · page 4

At a meeting of the Back to Work Through Wise Spending Committee at the Town Hall last night, the question of…

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Dash by Air To Central Australia Search for Gold Melbourne

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 4 October 1932 · page 1

Leaving Essendon aerodrome about 7 o'clock this morning, a Melbourne party began an air dash to the Central Australian goldfields…

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New Goldfield. in Central Australia. Melbourne

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 4 October 1932 · page 1

In his report to the directors of Granites Gold N.L., the company's mining engineer (Mr. E. W. Powell) who returned from Central Australia today…

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Mine Dispute Reply to Premier

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 5 October 1932 · page 1

Striking miners from the State coalmine at Wonthaggi issued a reply to an appeal made to them by the Premier (Sir Stanley Argylc) to abandon the…

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South Australian Goldfield Stock Exchange Boom

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 5 October 1932 · page 3

The gold boom on the Adelaide Stock Exchange reached its peak on Monday, when 35,000 shares changed hands in three hours. Shares of…

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New Gold Field

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 6 October 1932 · page 3

Three experts will leave Melbourne v aeroplane for Central Australia on a prospecting expedition which will last for three weeks. The party which has been…

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Again Idle Elrington Colliery Millfield—greta Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 October 1932 · page 7

Owing to a dispute concerning conditions of employment, which, it is stated, was agreed upon between the management and the Eirington Miners'…

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Work for Miners Booth's Request SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 October 1932 · page 1

Replying to Mr. Booth, who asked in the Assembly to-day that road work be started in his electorate to provide employment for unemployed…

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