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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1937

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Gold-bearing Areas. Discovered by Aerial Survey

The Scone Advocate · Friday 21 May 1937 · page 1

The Minister in Charge of Development (Senator McLachlan) said yesterday that further results of assays of cores taken from the third…

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Traces of Gold at Tennant Creek Minister Optimistic

Singleton Argus · Friday 21 May 1937 · page 8

Further results of assays of cores taken from the third bore at Tennant Creek have strengthened the opinion of the Minister in Charge of Development…

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Registration of Small Mines Association Opposed Registrar Told of Industry Conditions

Singleton Argus · Friday 21 May 1937 · page 4

Thomas Hoare and James. Simpson President and Assistant Secretary respectively of the Northern District of the Miners' Federation,…

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Died of Injuries Victim of Central Mining Accident

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 21 May 1937 · page 5

Seriously injured in the Aberdare Central mine on Monday, while fallowing his occupation as a miner, Mr. Jack…

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Pelton Colliery Deputies Accept Offers

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 24 May 1937 · page 3

At a meeting yesterday the Dep[?] Association end[?]ed the action of the president (Mr. J. Harle) and the secretary (Mr. T. Robbins) in accepting…

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Hunter Hit Mine [?]Tar May [?]

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 24 May 1937 · page 1

It was officially announced to-day that the Hunter disaster was exclusive due to striking a mine…

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Mines Idle Shotfirers Complain "Let Us Down" Weston

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 24 May 1937 · page 5

Most of the collieries on the South Maitland field were idle to-day as a result of the aggregate meeting of the shotfirers…

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Sunday Trade on the Goldfields Attack by Clergyman

Singleton Argus · Monday 24 May 1937 · page 2

A heated protest against the Sunday hotel trade on the goldfields, where it has been customary for many years not to enforce the legal closing hours, was…

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Wallarah Colliery Further Mine Mechanisation. All Employees Dismissed

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 25 May 1937 · page 3

The three hundred employees of Wallarah colliery received 14 days' notice of dismissal on Monday. This…

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Mines Resume Work

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 25 May 1937 · page 5

The various collieries on the Cessnock field, which, along with other mines on the lower field, were idle yesterday during…

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Work at the Mines

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 25 May 1937 · page 3

Times worked at the various northern collieries during the fortnight ended on Saturday last were as follows…

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Mine Mechanics South Coast Matters Secretary's Visit

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 25 May 1937 · page 7

Mr. H. C. Morton, general secretary of the Federated Mining Mechanics' Association, by request, attended a special meeting of the…

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New Demands. Miners' Federation Wage Increase Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 25 May 1937 · page 8

The Miners' Federation has decided to make claims on the New South Wales coalowners for Increased wages are' Improved…

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Back to Work Pelton Mine Resumes CESSNOCK

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 26 May 1937 · page 7

After an idleness of three weeks due to a dispute, which arose out of the employment of a deputy, who was not a member of the Deputies'…

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Increased Wages and Improved Conditions New Demands by Miners

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 26 May 1937 · page 3

The Miners' Federation has decided to make claims on the New South Wales coalminers' for increased wages and improved…

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Taken to Task Miners' President Shotfirers' Case Weston

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 26 May 1937 · page 7

That the aggregate meeting of shotfirers, held at Weston on Monday, would never have been conducted if the Northern Miners'…

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Fall of Coal Cessnock Miner's Death Coroner's Finding Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 26 May 1937 · page 7

A verdict of accidental death was returned by the Cessnock District Coroner (Mr. W. S. Johnston) at the Cessnock…

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Mine Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 27 May 1937 · page 5

Alan Richard Miller of Great Northern-road, Rutherford, received a lacerated and contused wound to the right hand when he was caught by a skip…

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Out in the Bush GOLD!

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 27 May 1937 · page 10

I was walking round one of the oldest western goldfields the other day and thoughts came crowding into, or from, my mind fast and furiously…

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Small Mines Application for Registration Federation Objections Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 27 May 1937 · page 7

When the application by the Small Mines Employees' Association for registration as an industrial union was resumed to-day, Mr. W. T. Cant, President of he Rothbury Miners'…

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