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Mining & the mines, 1937

1,124 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 11 of 57

Fall of Coal Lurri Kurri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 6 March 1937 · page 1

Richard Hawerer, or [?] mam, employed as a miner at Richmond Main Colliery, was buried by a fall of coal at the colliery yesterday. It was…

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The Mines

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 8 March 1937 · page 5

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

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The Mines

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 9 March 1937 · page 5

Richmond Main and Polaw Main Collieries worked to-day…

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Change of Plans Gold Rod's Future

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 9 March 1937 · page 7

Following his defeat by Turnouts in the C. M. Lloyd Stakes at Flemington on Saturday, a change has been made in the programme mapped out for…

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Miner Killed Crushed By Fall of Coal ROTHBURY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 9 March 1937 · page 5

Harold Dover, 83, married, living at Scott-street, North Rothbury, was killed to-day about 13,80 by a fall of coal at Maitland Extended No. 4…

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World's Tiniest Racehorse. Shod with Gold. Little Horse Rode in a Lift

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 9 March 1937 · page 1

A few months ago a tiny horse was carried through the passing multitudes from a taxi-cab in crowded Threadneedle-street, London, to a…

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The Mines

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 11 March 1937 · page 7

Richmond Main and Pelaw Main Collieries worked to-day…

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Died in Colliery Kurri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 11 March 1937 · page 9

The District Coroner (Mr. A.W. Johns), will hold an inquiry at the Kurri Kurri Courthouse on Saturday at 10 a.m. into the death of Charles…

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£50 a Week for Miners Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 11 March 1937 · page 2

Mr, J. Pollard a passenger on the Macdhul which arrived from New Guinea to-day stated that miners who were working the new We Wak…

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Fatal Fall of Coal Bellbird Colliery Fatality CORONsR Praises Rescue Party

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 12 March 1937 · page 5

At the Cessnock Courthouse yesterday Mr. A. W. Johns, Kurri District Coroner, conducted an inquest, at Cessnock…

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The Mines

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 12 March 1937 · page 7

Richmond Main and Pelaw Main Collieries worked to-day…

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Stanford Colliery To Re-open?

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 12 March 1937 · page 5

Kurri Kurrl people are quite happy over a report, which appears to be more than idle rumour, that Stanford colliery is…

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Miners Earning £50 a Week

Singleton Argus · Friday 12 March 1937 · page 8

Mr J. Pollard, a passenger on the Macdhui, which arrived from New Guinea yesterday, stated that miners who were working the new…

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Mine Accident Young Man Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 12 March 1937 · page 6

James Ramplin, 21 son of Mr. R. Ramplin of Refihead and formerly of West Maitland received a compound tractre of the pelvis internal…

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Bravest Act of 1936 Gold Medal for Seaman

Singleton Argus · Friday 12 March 1937 · page 1

Grimsby seaman, No[?]l Augustus Kinch, 30-year-old deckhand in the Mac Line trawler Northern Princess, was last month awarded the Royal…

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Bellbird Miner's Death Fall of Coal After Shot. Coroner's Verdict

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 12 March 1937 · page 5

In returning a verdict of accidental death after inquiring into the cause of the death of Jack Ninness, who died on March 9th…

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World's Tiniest Racehorse Shod with Gold Little Horse Rode in a Lift

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 12 March 1937 · page 6

A few months ago a tiny horse was carried through the passing multitudes in a taxi-cab in crowded Threadneedle-street, London, to a business office,…

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Mine Fatality Muswellbrook Sympathy MUBWELLBROOK

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 13 March 1937 · page 7

Sincere sympathy has been extended to Mr. and Mrs. C. Dever in the death of their son, who was killed by a fall of coal in the Maitland Extended…

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The Mines

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 15 March 1937 · page 5

Richmond Main and Pelaw Main Collieries worked to-day…

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Coal Petrol Production

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 15 March 1937 · page 8

Up to the end of November, 1936, approximately 170,000 tons, or about 50,000,000 gallons, of motor spirit were produced of the hydrogenation…

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