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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1937

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Maitland Main Colliery Idle

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 8 January 1937 · page 7

A dispute occurred at Maitland Main this morning. A pit top meeting was held, and it was decided to go to work as a…

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Miners' State Conference Wage Restoration

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 8 January 1937 · page 3

The Miners' Federation had decided to bold a State Conference for the purpose, according to "Common Cause," the union paper, of…

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Aberdare' Central Colliery Resumption of Work Tension Relieved

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 8 January 1937 · page 5

It was feared that the stoppage at Aberdare Central colliery might extend to the other mines of the Caledonian…

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Fall of Coal Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 January 1937 · page 5

Ernest Brown, 40, of Islington, a minor at Stockton Borehole Colliery, was struck by a fall of stone in the mine. He was taken to Wallsend…

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Quick Action Good Work of Miners' Leaders

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 8 January 1937 · page 2

Some say new brooms sweep clean, but it is nice to have a new broom. The swift action of the…

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Skeleton From Old Mine Shaft Bullet in Skull

Singleton Argus · Friday 8 January 1937 · page 8

A bullet was found by the Government Pathologist (Dr. C. H. Mollison) in the back of the skull of the skeleton recovered from the bottom of an old…

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Oil From Coal Council Issues a Statement

Singleton Argus · Friday 8 January 1937 · page 1

The Northern District Oil from Coal Council has issued a statement that in the new year the campaign is to be carried on more vigorously. The work…

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The Marne for Peter Moore-gold Cup. On Parade and Cool Spell Good Place, Bets

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 8 January 1937 · page 8

The Marne, topweight for the Peter Moore Cold Cup at Moorefield to-morrow, has been giving his trainer a good…

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Cool Spell May Have Change of Luck in Gold Cup at Moorefield Fair Diana For Handicap Orient Orb's Chances

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 January 1937 · page 9

Unluckily beaten at Randwick at his last two starts, Cool pell is expected to make a bold bid for victory in to-morrow's Peter Moore Gold Cup at Moorefiekl Neither Speardale nor Bundar, who…

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State Gold Yield Eleven Months' Increase SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 9 January 1937 · page 4

Gold production of Now South Wales for the first 11 months of 1936 in [?] in a Minch department return. at 66,01 [?] fine valued at £ A, 176, 981…

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Tester's Hollow Alleged Pollution Water From Mine

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 11 January 1937 · page 2

Evidence to the effect that he had received no complaints of cattle suffering III effects from drinking the water and that he had…

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The Mines

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 12 January 1937 · page 5

Richmond Main and Pelaw Main Collieries worked to - day…

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Killed in Mine MELBOURNE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 12 January 1937 · page 5

Arnold Pinner (20), of Wagga, was killed to - day when he was crushed by a five hundredweight boulder in the Wattle Gully…

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Oil From Coal Interesting Statement

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 12 January 1937 · page 1

In view of the report which Sir David Rivett, chief executive officer of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, is…

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Gold Rod Out Of Challenge

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 12 January 1937 · page 7

Gold Rod was awarded 9.0 for the Challenge Stakes, weights of which were issued yesterday. This impost represents eight pounds over weight…

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Three Injured Accidents in Mine CESSNOCK

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 12 January 1937 · page 5

Three employees of Stanford - Main No. 2 Gallery were injured while at work to - day and admitted to Cessnock Hospital…

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Explosives in Insecure Case Two Miners Fined

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 12 January 1937 · page 3

John Wile and Clarence McKersic, employed at Cessnock No. 2 Colliery, were charged, at Cessnock Court to-day, with…

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Oil from Coal. Council Issues a Statement

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 12 January 1937 · page 2

The Northern District Oil from Coal Council has issued a statement that in tlie New Year the campaign is to bo carried on more vigorously. The work of…

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Blood on Road Mine Shaft Mystery MELBOURNE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 12 January 1937 · page 2

A report was made by a local rest dent to the detectives who are inquiring into the finding of a body in an old that at Wedderburn, that he had…

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Development in Mine Shaft Mystery Bloodstains on Road

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 13 January 1937 · page 2

A fresh development in the Wedderburn (Vic.) mine shaft mystery is a statement by a local resident that he had seen bloodstains on the Calder…

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