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Mining & the mines, 1934

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Moree Gold Cup The Nominations MOREE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 June 1934 · page 9

Moree Gold Cup meeting wil be held on Friday and Saturday next, June 8 and 9, the nominations for the six races on the first day totalling…

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Gold Price Boom Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 6 June 1934 · page 7

Gold was quoted in London to-day at £6/18/ per ounce fine, the highest quotation since February. The banks in London to-day offered from £1/19/…

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"Gold Diggers" Has 200 Gorgeous Girls Picked From 10,000

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 6 June 1934 · page 2

Two hundred of the most beautiful girls, in the country were selected to appear in the various chorus and dan[?]e ensembles of the Warner Bros. picture…

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"Gold Diggers of 1933"

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 7 June 1934 · page 2

Points about "Golddiggars of 1933" to be shown at Central Pictures, Raymond Terrace on Saturday night next: Sensational songs…

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Gold Lease Suspension Granted Gresford Area

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 7 June 1934 · page 7

Warden A. A. Graham, Bitting at the East Maitland Warden's Court to-day, granted James Ryan Carlton, solicitor, a six months' suspension of…

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WESTON Hebburn Miners' Lodge Officers Elected Weston

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 7 June 1934 · page 7

The ballot for the position of president and treasurer of the Hebburn No. 1 Miners' Lodge was counted yesterday. Mr. W. Wardle was…

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Abermain Men on Stealing Charge Colliery Property

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 8 June 1934 · page 8

Pleading guilty, at the Kurri Kurri Police Court yesterday, to a charge of having, at Abermain on 16th May, stolen a door, valued at 30/-, the…

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Bellbird Miners' Lodge Result of Election

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 8 June 1934 · page 5

The ballot for official positions in the in W. Roberts toeing re-elected president by 133 votes to 128 polled by…

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"Green and Gold" Jazz Carnival

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 8 June 1934 · page 2

The "Wanderers" Hockey Club will hold their first social function of the season in the School of Arts Muswellbrook, on Monday, 18th. June…

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Hospital May Be Closed No Miners' Contributions

Singleton Argus · Friday 8 June 1934 · page 1

Wonthaggi (Vic.) Hospital, which is maintained by contributions of miners in the district, may be forced to close because of a shortage of…

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The Mines

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 9 June 1934 · page 7

Richmond Main and Pelaw Main collieries worked to-day. Stanford Main did not work…

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Mine Disputes Conciliation Committee Seniority Rule

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 9 June 1934 · page 7

Mr. H. C. Morton, general secretary of the Federated Mining Mechanics' Association, has been informed that the application made to the…

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The Mines

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 11 June 1934 · page 7

Richmond Main, Pelaw Main, and Stanford Main collieries all worked to-day…

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Fall of Coal

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 11 June 1934 · page 2

Allan Bush, 34, of Short-street, on Kop, was struck by a fall of cost in Richmond Main colliery, on Saturday, and was admitted to the King…

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Coal Stealing Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 11 June 1934 · page 1

For stealing one wet, of coal from the railway at Waratah, George Delaney in the Summons Court to-day was sentenced to seven days' gaol…

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The Mines Work for Fortnight

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 11 June 1934 · page 7

For the fortnight ended on Saturday last, Northern, mines worked as follow: Pelaw Main, Richmond Main,…

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Struck by Coal Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 11 June 1934 · page 7

Suffering from a fractured skull and injuries to his right shoulder, Phillip Leake, 32, of Allandale-road, Cessnock, was admitted to the Cessnock…

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Union Dispute Miners and Mechanics Lodge Members

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 11 June 1934 · page 7

The action of the officers of the Miners' Federation in giving certain members of the Wongawilli Lodge three days to join up with that…

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"Gold Diggers of 1933" All Star Spectacle at the Strand

Singleton Argus · Monday 11 June 1934 · page 2

The big musical and dramatic spectacle, "Gold Diggers of 1933," which will be screened at the Strand Theatre to-morrow (Tuesday) night, and on…

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New Greta Miners

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 12 June 1934 · page 3

Several men who held seniority at the New Greta mine when it closed down some years ago were notified on Friday by the officer in charge of…

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