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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1935

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Coal Oil Propaganda Campaign Raising Money Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 January 1935 · page 2

Section 3 of the schedule recommended by the joint secretaries (Alderman H. Fenton and Mr. H. D. Jones) was adopted with one or two minor…

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Coal Export Newcastle Shipments 41,100 Tons Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 January 1935 · page 8

During the week 41,100 tons of coal were shipped from Newcastle, including 1800 tons of overseas bunkers. For the corresponding period last year…

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The Mines

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 21 January 1935 · page 5

Richmond Main, Pelaw Main and Stanford Main Collieries were working to-day…

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Busy Mines Fortnight's Work NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 21 January 1935 · page 6

Work was brisk at collieries on the Northern field during the fortnight Wallsend, at which there was a dispute towards the end of the year,…

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Aberdare General Miners

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 22 January 1935 · page 2

The committee of Aberdare Central Miners Lodge [?] [?] to support the proposed to call a conference of lodges and industrial…

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Work at the Mines

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 22 January 1935 · page 1

Although only one mine—Stockton Borehole—worked full time (11 days.) during the fortnight ended on Saturday last, eleven collieries…

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Batlow Gold Rush

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 22 January 1935 · page 2

Reports state that the gold-mining rush at Batlow is continuing and land has been taken up under various tenures over an area of 20 miles by 12…

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St. Heliers' Colliery. Federation Officials Confer with Employees

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 22 January 1935 · page 1

Several matters relating to the employees at St. Heliers' colliery were discussed yesterday between reprsentatives of the lodge and Messrs…

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New Award Gold Standard

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 22 January 1935 · page 6

In a new award made in Western Australia, a novel clause has been inserted. Under this clause wage margins…

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The Mines

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 23 January 1935 · page 5

Richmond Main, Pelaw Main and Stanford Main Collieries were working to-day…

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Unlimited Coal

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 23 January 1935 · page 5

Sinking, operations at Cwmavon, Glamorgan, in pits abandoned 30 years age owing to flood peril, have revealed unlimited supply of best…

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Colliery Employees Hurt Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 24 January 1935 · page 7

James White Harden ( 27), of Gordon-avenue, South Cessnock, a clipper employed at the Aberdare Colliery, was admitted to Cessnock Hospital this…

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Coal Trade Prospects Better LONDON, January 23

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 24 January 1935 · page 4

The Secretary for Mines (Mr. Ernest Brown), speaking at Edinburgh, said that the coal trade prospects had taken a turn for the better…

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The Mines and Pay Day

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 5

Richmond Main, Pelaw Main and Stanford Main Collieries were working to-day…

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Oil From Coal Government Interest

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 5

Government officials are observing with interest the operation of a plant for the extraction of fuel oil from coal, which, it is understood, has…

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Mine Accident Soccer Rep. Jim Harden Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 6

James Harden, 27, of South Cessnock, was rather seriously injured to Aberdare Colliery yesterday. Harden was struck in the neck 'with a…

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Conditions in Small Mines. Deputation to Minister

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 9

A deputation representing the Miners' Federation, comprising the General President (Mr. C. Nelson), the Northern President (Mr. T. Hoare)…

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Cessnock No. 2 Miners' Lodge Decisions at Monthly Meeting

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 5

Mr. Drinkwater addressed the monthly meeting of the committee of the Cessnock No. 2 Miners' Lodge on the new constitution of the hospital…

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Trapped in Mine Young Man's Lucky Escape. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 6

While working on a level 150 feet below the surface to-day, in the old Pioneer mine at Parkes, a young man was trapped by a fall of earth…

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Kurri Pay at the Mines Ten Days Kurri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 5

To-day was the fortnightly pay day at the mines, and incidentally the first pay for 1935. Owing to the Christmas holidays, the…

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