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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1937

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Coal Shipments Trade at Newcastle 50,955 Tons Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 7 August 1937 · page 8

More than half the quantity of coal shipped from Newcastle this week was imported by Victoria. The trade with that State has been…

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Threatened Coal Strike Miners Leaving Nothing to Chance Sydney

Singleton Argus · Monday 9 August 1937 · page 2

Although there is still a feeling in some quarters that the threatened strike on the coalfields may be averted, the miners are leaving…

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Protest Strike Pelton Colliery Idle CESSNOCK

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 9 August 1937 · page 1

Pelton Colliery was idle to-day, the pli-top hands refusing to work as a protest, against the failure of the management to pay them for an eighth…

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Gold Search Abandoned in Papua SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 9 August 1937 · page 6

After a year spent in the dangerous interior of Papua, conducting one of the most ambitious gold prospecting projects of modern times, the…

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Fall of Coal Miner's Neck Fractured CESSNOOK

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 9 August 1937 · page 5

Two men were injured by separate falls of coal in Cessnock No. 2 coliery to-day. Both were admitted to cessnock Hospital, one in a serious…

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Pelton Colliery Dispute

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 10 August 1937 · page 3

Owing to the refusal of the management to pay an eighth of a shift to surface hands, who claimed they worked for a…

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W.a. Gold Yield

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 10 August 1937 · page 5

The Western Australian State gold yield for July was 84,337 ounces, valued at £732,131, compared with 77,3117 ounces for July last year. This makes 553,392 ounces…

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Vital Coal Conference SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 10 August 1937 · page 7

The Conference was resumed, presided over by Mr. Justice Cantor, to-day of representatives of the parties in…

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Fall of Coal Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 10 August 1937 · page 7

Thomas Redgrove, 67, of Allandaloi-road, Cessnock, a miner, employed at Aberdare colliery, received an injury to his right ankle when cought by a fall of…

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Oil From Coal (To the Editor.)

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 10 August 1937 · page 5

Sir,—I am instructed by the Cessnock chambers of commerce to ask you to give space to Oil from Coal…

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Coal at Willow Tree Willow Tree

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 10 August 1937 · page 8

While sluicing a well on his farm at Willow Tree, Mr. J. McGann sank through a 5ft seam of coal at a little over 20ft. The coal…

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Coalowners and Miners. Settlement Hoped For. Sydney

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 10 August 1937 · page 2

At the resumed conference between the coalowners and miners' representatives, arranged with a view of endeavoring to settle the…

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Two Mines Idle Pelton -Stanford Main CESSNOCK

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 10 August 1937 · page 1

Pellon and Stanford Main No. 2 collieries were idle to-day. The trouble at Pelton was stated to be the same as that which caused the mine to be…

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Football Scone Retains Camyr Allyn Gold Cup

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 10 August 1937 · page 2

Scone met Aberdeen in a challenge match for the Camyr Allyn Cup, on Sunday last. A large crowd attended, spectators coming from several district centres, and during one stage of the game the linesmen had some difficulty in keeping the crowd back. In fairness to the players…

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Miner's Neck Fractured Fall of Coal at Cessnock No. 2

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 10 August 1937 · page 3

Struck by a fall of coal at Cessnock No. 2 Colliery yesterday, Jack Wila (25), miner, of Catherine-street…

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Fast Track Work at Randwick Gold Rod and Talking Inaction Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 10 August 1937 · page 7

A fast track enabled some good times to be registered at Randwick the morning. Gold Rod and Talking were seen in action, and…

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Muswellbrook Coal Company's Electricity Undertaking New Planet Installed. Switching-On Ceremony Performed by Minister for Works and Local Government

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 10 August 1937 · page 3

PROGRESS! Signs of progress were in evidence at many points of the town on Saturday, which will go down in local history as a day of great historic value. Before the official opening of the new…

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Mine Dispute Still Unsettled SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 11 August 1937 · page 1

The delegates from the parties in the coal mining dispute met again in Sydney to-day, Earlier, the fear was…

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Stop Press Extra Coal Orders Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 11 August 1937 · page 7

As a precaution against any emergency that may arise, the Sydney County Council has ordered an additional 11,400 tons of…

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no finality IN vital Coal Conference Owners, Offer Denied

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 11 August 1937 · page 1

Yesterday's session of the compulsory conference between the coal-owners and mine-workers did not bring the hoped-for settlement. The parties met separately, and the Chairman, Mr…

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