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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1933

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Coal Export Six Months' Figures Newcastle Trade Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 1 July 1933 · page 9

The quality of coal, including bunkers, shipped at Newcastle for places beyond the State during the fist six months of this year was…

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Back to Work Elrington Miners CESSNOCK

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 3 July 1933 · page 2

At a meeting of the Elrington Minors' Lodge yesterday, a satisfactory settlement was reached with respect to the dispute over disrating of a…

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Muswellbrook Coal Company. Takes Over St. Heliers Colliery

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 4 July 1933 · page 2

The transfer of the St. Heliers Coal Co's. interests to the Muswellbrook Coal Co., Ltd., took effect as from Saturday last…

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Elrington Colliery Resumes Conference with Management

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 4 July 1933 · page 3

Elrington Colliery, which was idle at the latter end of last week, owing to a dispute with regard to the disrating of a shotfirer, resumed…

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Oil from Coal. Success Achieved

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 4 July 1933 · page 1

Addressing a meeting of engineers at Newcastle Mr. A. Lyon, who with his brother has been experimenting with the extraction of…

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Oil From Coal Successful. Experiments Reported. Newcastle

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 4 July 1933 · page 1

Remarkable success in the treatment of Australian coal for oil was claimed by Mr. Alan Lyons in an address to a [?] of engineers in Newcastle this…

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Alluvial Gold Great Possibilities. Mr. H. Scorer's Opinion

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 4 July 1933 · page 5

The wealth that lies in Australia's vast alluvial gold-bearing areas has never been properly realised, according to Mr. Harry Scorer, a prospector…

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Nundah Extended Colliery

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 5 July 1933 · page 2

Work is in full swing at the Nundah Extended Colliery, which recently reopened under the management of Mr James, of Abormain. About, nine men…

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Kurri Pelaw Main Miners Lodge Meeting Kurri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 5 July 1933 · page 10

The monthly meeting of the Pelaw Main Miners' Lodge was held in the Kurri Kurri School of Arts Last night…

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Mine Mechanics Aberdare Central Yard Trouble

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 July 1933 · page 7

Trouble that has arisen at Central Aberdare over waggon-repairers and examiners being called upon to lower waggons in the colliery yard, was…

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Southern Miners Breach with A.L.P. SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 July 1933 · page 1

The decision of the Southern district branch of the Miners' Federation to withdraw its affiliation from the State Labour party caused considerable…

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Letter to Editor Blue and Gold (To the Editor)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 July 1933 · page 5

Sir,-Many years ago "Verax" wrote a story entitled "Blue and White" (or what may be), and I am reminded if this by the fondness of…

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Nundah Extended Colliery

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 7 July 1933 · page 3

Work is in full swing at the Nundah Extended Colliery, which recently re-opened under the management of Mr. James, of Abermain. About nine…

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Gold Passes

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 7 July 1933 · page 4

The State Cabinet is reported to be still wrestling with the problem of how to reward those members of the Legislative Cou-…

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CESSNOCK No. 2 COLLIERY. Work Resumed

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 7 July 1933 · page 3

Cessnock No.2 Collery, which was idle yesterday. resumed work today, work resumed on the…

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Mine Accidents in England Figures for the Year

Singleton Argus · Friday 7 July 1933 · page 5

In a Parliamentary answer, the British Secretary for Mines stated that the number of persons killed in and about coalmines last year was 881, and the…

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Miner Injured. Struck by Coal CESSNOCK

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 7 July 1933 · page 5

Nicholas Murphy, 58, a miner employed at Aberdare Central and residing at west Avenue, Cessnock, received injuries to his chest when he…

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Oil From Coal Report on Lyon Bros. Process. Scientifically Sound

Singleton Argus · Friday 7 July 1933 · page 5

"Much attention was devoted during the year to the utilisation of our coals and to the matter of fuel research gencrally," says the annual report of the…

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Gold Passes Upper House Members No Decision Yet Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 7 July 1933 · page 4

It is stated in well-informed political circles that Cabinet has not yet determined the privileges to be retained by members of the present Legislative…

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Mine Mechanics Conciliation Committee

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 8 July 1933 · page 7

The term of appointment of Messrs. V. W. T. Winder and A. B. Kay on the Colliery Mechanics' (North, South Coast, and West)…

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