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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1937

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Bellbird Colliery Stoppage

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 28 September 1937 · page 3

Bellbird Colliery has not worked since Thursday owing to the miners claiming that their picks had not been…

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Miners Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 28 September 1937 · page 1

Struck by a piece of coal at Aberdare Extended Colliery yesterday, William. Wells, 45, machine man, of Neath-road, Kearaley, suffered injury…

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Work at the Mines

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 28 September 1937 · page 3

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

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Bellbird Mine Engineer Mechahice NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 28 September 1937 · page 8

Consideration was given by the miners committee of management to the position at Bellbird, where the engineers and mechanics had taken…

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Gold Rod Ouite O.k

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 28 September 1937 · page 6

Rumours are generally flying the rounds about well backed horses in big events and the coming Epsom is no exception. During the week-end…

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Fall of Coal Kurri Kurri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 28 September 1937 · page 7

John Graham (40), of Alexander-st., Kurri Kurri, a miner, employed at Richmond Main Colliery, was admitted to the Kurri Kurri Hospital to-day…

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Oil From Coal Statement by Mr. Biggers

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 28 September 1937 · page 3

Mr. Arthur Biggers, President of the Chamber of Commerce, stated to-day that he had noticed by the policy speech of…

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Is Boom in Coal Industry Coming? indication for Optimum

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 28 September 1937 · page 3

The trend of events on the Coalfields points to a revival of the coal industry. Several of the colleries have…

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Good Sprint by Gold Rod SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 29 September 1937 · page 1

GOLD ROD was responsible for a great sprint at Rosebory this morning, when he put 6¾ furlongs behind in 1.25 Gold Rod galloped…

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Cessnock Mine Deputies Magistrate's Ruling Custom Upset Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 29 September 1937 · page 12

When the South Maitland Deputies met at Cessnock last night there was a strong move to withdraw the deputies from the whole or the…

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Alaska's Gold

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 30 September 1937 · page 2

Returning from Alaska, a priest told the Associated Press that missionaries in the frozen wastes beyond the Arctic Circle have learned to…

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Under Protest Miners Resume Work CESSNOCK

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 30 September 1937 · page 7

Bellbird colliery, which was idle several days last week and three days this week, due to a dispute concerning the sharpening of tools at the…

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MR. G. DURIE Mine Manager Dies NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 30 September 1937 · page 7

Following a long illness, Mr. George Durie, O Boragul, a well known mine manager in the Teralba district, died yesterday afternoon at the age of 62 years…

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Time Not Ripe Direct Action in Mines IPSWICH

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 30 September 1937 · page 10

At a stop-work meeting of approximately 600 miners from the Ipswich district field, officials of the Miners' Federation declared that the time was…

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Successful Trading Operations Cessnock Collieries Ltd

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 1 October 1937 · page 7

In his address to shareholders of Cessnock Collieries Ltd., at the annual meeting on Wednesday, the chairman (Mr. D. F…

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A.l.p. and Miners' Lodges. Japanese Callousness Denounced

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 1 October 1937 · page 7

A combined meeting of Cessnock A.L.P., miners' lodges, and affiliated unions, at a meeting this week, unanimously carried the following…

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Turf Notes Process of Elimination of Rivals Against Talking and Gold Rod

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 1 October 1937 · page 4

Since Spring racing began it has been simply a case of elimination of the prospects of rivals to Talking and Gold Rod. Silver Rose, Gay Chou,…

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Blue and Gold Ball. C.W.A's. Annual Event. a Successful Function

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 1 October 1937 · page 8

The postponed blue and gold ball, the anual event of the Merriwa branch of the Country Women's Association, eventuated in the Astros Theatre on…

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Wool's Worth to Australia Far Greater Than Gold. Mr. J. P. Abbott at Tumut

The Scone Advocate · Friday 1 October 1937 · page 5

There was an attendance of over sixty at the meeting of the Tumut branch of the Graziers' Association, addressed by the President (Mr. J…

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Sydney Racing Letter Turf Gossip From All Tracks. Gold Rod, Talking, Silver Standard and Mala. Dominate Epsom and Metropolitan Betting

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 1 October 1937 · page 1

Not in 20 years have four horses so dominated the Epsom and Metropolitan betting as do Gold Rod and Talking in the mile race and Silver Standard and Mala in Monday's middle distance event. Apart from them, long prices are…

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