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Mining & the mines, 1935

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Still Idle Bellbird Colliery CESSNOCK

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 23 September 1935 · page 6

The Bellbird Co[?] which was thrown idle last Wednesday owing to a dispute about the working conditions of the clippers, did not work…

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Labor Saving Machinery For Coal Mine

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 24 September 1935 · page 3

While on their visit to the Steel Works at Newcastle yesterday, the members of the Cessnock Business Men's…

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The Mines

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 24 September 1935 · page 7

Richmond Main and Pe -law Main Collieries worked to - day…

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Bellbird Colliery Protracted Ctipper's Dispute

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 24 September 1935 · page 2

Bellbird colliery, which employs approximately 600 men, has been idle since Wednesday last owing to a dispute between the employees…

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Northern Miners Conference of Representatives

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 24 September 1935 · page 3

More than ordinary importance te attached to the conference of mining representatives to be held at the Newcastle Trades…

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Miners' Executive Nominations for Office

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 24 September 1935 · page 6

Nominations for the annual ballo for the election of General Presides, and General Secretary of the Miners Federation closed at noon on…

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Mine Mechanics Pelaw Main Conference

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 24 September 1935 · page 7

The general secretary of the Federated Mining Mechanics' Association, Mr. H. C. Morton, together with Mr. J, Rees, yesterday conferred with…

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Mechanisation in Mines. (To the Editor)

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 24 September 1935 · page 5

Sir,—A correspondent, with the interests of the miners at heart, pleads in your columns for resistance to the mechanisation of…

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GOLD. Rich Yields at Martin's Creek

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 24 September 1935 · page 1

Reports reached us yesterday to the effect that from a crushing of 23 tons of Martin's Creek ore 83 ounces of gold was won…

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Oil From Coal Dr. Herman on Cost of Plant

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 24 September 1935 · page 3

To manufacture petrol from ccal In Australia, the Commonwealth would need to subsidise to the extent of about 10[?]…

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The Mines

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 25 September 1935 · page 7

Richmond Main and Pelaw Main , Collieries worked to-day…

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Carriage of Miners Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 26 September 1935 · page 5

At the meeting of the Cessnock Municipal Council a communication was received from tho Department of Road Transport, advising that both…

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Coal Needs Cessnock Unemployed CESSNOCK

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 26 September 1935 · page 8

In reply to council's representations for a grant of coal for the local unemployed, Mr. R. James, M.H.R., has advised Cessnock Municipal Council that…

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"Real Evil" Machinery in Mines Unions Meet Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 26 September 1935 · page 1

The mechanisation of industry is being considered to-day at a big conference in the Trades Hall. Delegates from all the unions connected with…

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Free Trade League Makes Move Gold Standard Geneva, Sept. 25

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 26 September 1935 · page 1

The Parliamentary Secretary of the Board of Trade (Dr. Burgin) at a meeting of the League Economic Committee, made a move in…

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Small Mines

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 27 September 1935 · page 1

The number, of small mines operating in the Northern coal-mining district at some time or other during 1934 was 79. The total output from…

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Condition[?] Coal [?] Mr. Ba[?] Conten[?]

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 27 September 1935 · page 5

Speaking in the [?] sembly the other day [?] to the conditions [?] the coal industry Mr, [?]…

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Dear Coal Railway Theft NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 27 September 1935 · page 1

For stealing a shilling's worth of coal, James Ashton Coxon (25), and Wilfred Morgan Thomas (43,) labourer, were each fined £1, with 2/6…

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SENATOR McLACHLAN Discusses Oil From Coal

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 27 September 1935 · page 5

SENATOR McLACHLAN has made a definite statement regarding the proposed erection of plants in the Commonwealth for the abstraction of oil from coal. He is emphatic in his statement that the scheme will be favoured by the Government…

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Local Mining Disputes Bellbird and Caledonia. (To the Editor)

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 27 September 1935 · page 6

Sir,—In the stoppages that are at present taking place, it is a good sign that the workers at these collieries are at last beginning to take…

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