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Mining & the mines, 1933

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Coal Trade Newcastle Shipments 37,775 Tons Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 17 June 1933 · page 9

During the week, 37,775 tons of coal were shipped from Newcastle for places bryond the State, compared with 48,250 tons for the same period…

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Mr. Rees Bevan Mining Personality Sudden Death

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 17 June 1933 · page 10

The sudden death of Mr. Rees Bevan, J.P., formerly manager of Excelsior Collieries, on the South Coast, and later of New Greta…

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Four More Pairs of Miners To be Employed at Paxton Colliery

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 20 June 1933 · page 3

After so much intermittent working at different mines in the district, it is refreshing to learn that additional men are to be put on at…

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Bellbird Colliery Resumes Work

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 20 June 1933 · page 3

Bellbird Colliery, which had been idle for the past fortnight, owing to slackness of trade, resumed work yesterday…

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Mine Fatality Inquest

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 20 June 1933 · page 2

The District Coroner (Mr. W. Johnson) will conduct the inquiry on Thursday into the death of Alastaair James Bowls, who was killed at Bellbird as…

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Gold Yield

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 20 June 1933 · page 2

A big increase is revealed in the gold yield of Queensland for the first five months of the present year. For the five months ended May 31…

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Grains of Gold

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 20 June 1933 · page 3

May thy sky be fair and cloudless if the Father aces it best. May life's flowers he filled with sweetness…

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Alleged Breach of Mines Ad

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 20 June 1933 · page 3

Among the matters listed for hearing at Cessnock Court to-day was a case in which Henry Kenne-well was charged with having…

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Three Fined Possession of Coal

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 20 June 1933 · page 10

At the East Maitland Court Thomas Tourish was fined £1, with 8/ costs, for having 5 cwt., of coal in his possession reasonably suspected to have…

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ABERMAIN Meeting of Miners Officers Elected Abermain

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 20 June 1933 · page 4

At the monthly meeting of the Abermain No. 1 Miners' Lodge' the executive officers submitted a report on a conference held with the…

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Muswellbrook Beats Quirindi and Retains Portlock Gold Cup

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 20 June 1933 · page 5

In a game that was hard and fast, and keenly interesting beat start to finish, Muswellbrook heat Quirindi in the first game for the…

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Mining Case Manager Takes Action CESSNOCK

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 20 June 1933 · page 2

George H. Hindmarsh, manager of Eirington Colliery proceeded against Henry Kennewell, at the Cessnock Court to-day, for having taken into…

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Mine Accidents

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 21 June 1933 · page 3

At the John Darling Colliery, Balment, John Williams, 47, of Adamstown, a shortfirer, was struck on the right foot by a piece of coal thrown…

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Coal Company Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 21 June 1933 · page 5

The following colliery company was registered to-day:— The Glen Main Coal (Sydney), Ltd. Nominal capital £1000, Objects: To acquire…

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Proposal for Sharing Work at Kurri Mines Unemployed Mine Workers' Move. Premier Asked to Call Conference

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Thursday 22 June 1933 · page 6

An effort to introduce a scheme for the sharing of the work at the co[?]ries in the Kurri Kurri district was made…

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Hebburn Mine Slackness of Trade WESTON

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 22 June 1933 · page 7

Hobburn No, l was idle to-day owing to slackness of trade. It was stated yesterday, unofficially, that the colliery will work again to-morrow…

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"Labor Daily" Sabotage Alleged Miners Meet Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 22 June 1933 · page 7

In interring to the small attendance at the Strand Theatre last night. when the financial Interests of the Miners' Federation…

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Bellbird Miner Shows Great Heroism. Two Men Buried Under Fall of Coal, Circumstances of Alister Bowie's Death

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Thursday 22 June 1933 · page 2

Matthew, Howard a miner at the Bellbird Colliery, was highly commended at the Cessnock Coroner's Court to-day for the Courageous part he had played when two men we[?] buried beneath a fall of coal at the Bellbird mine on March 22nd…

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Mr. Lang's Debenture Described As a "Bushranging Document." Miners Want Their £33,000 in "Labor Daily" Secured. "Paper Should Not be in Hands of Dictator," Says Mr. Willis

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Thursday 22 June 1933 · page 3

The position of the Miners' Federation in relation to its investments of £33000 in the "Labor Daily" was explained to an aggregate meeting at Cessnock last night. Mr. A. C. Willis and other speakers traversed the history of…

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Succumbed to Injuries Elrington Colliery Worker Death at Hospital To-day

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 23 June 1933 · page 2

William Neams (59), of Begent Street, Cessnock, who was seriously injured while following his occupation as a shiftman…

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