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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1937

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Small Mines Reply to Federation Management Committee Meets

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 26 October 1937 · page 3

The Northern Miners' Management Committee, which began a sitting at the Trades Hall yesterday, decided to receive a…

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More Gold Production in N.S.W. Nine Months Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 26 October 1937 · page 1

Figures released by the Department of Mines to-day show that the production of gold of Now South Wales origin for September, 1037, was…

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Mine Mechanics Unemployed Members Special Appeal

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 October 1937 · page 5

The president, Mr. T. G. Moran, occupied the chair at a meeting of the executive of the Federated Mining Mechanics' Association…

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Aberdare Mines Compensation Claim CESSNOCK

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 October 1937 · page 2

The combined committee of the three Aberdare lodges met last night to consider the case of a miner who had been refused compensation for an injury to his…

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Tense Moments with Crocodile Experience of Miners

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 27 October 1937 · page 1

Maxwell M'Millau and Georgo Bennett, returning to Darwin on Sunday night from Fletcher's Gully gold mine, had an alarming experience at Daly…

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CESSNOCK & District Two Idle South Maitland Mines CESSNOCK

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 October 1937 · page 2

Aberdare colliery, which was idle yesterday because the management refused to pay the recognised compensation to miners assisting in the…

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Big Gold Nugget Perth

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 28 October 1937 · page 10

A kidney-shaped nugget of gold and quartz, estimated to contain from 200 to 500 oz of gold, was found on an old dolly-pot lease at Mt. Sir Samuel by…

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Fall of Coal Miner Injured CESSNOCK

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 28 October 1937 · page 7

William Davies, 31, of Catharine-street, Cessnock, a miner, employed at Cessnock No. 2 colliery, was struck by a fall of coal at work to-day and…

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Aberdare Extended Dispute Colliery Again Idle To-day

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 29 October 1937 · page 5

Aberdare Extended colliery was idle yesterday and to-day owing to a dispute concerning payment to the wheeler, who it…

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Still Idle Abedare Extended Mine CESSNOCK

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 29 October 1937 · page 7

Although it had been agreed at a combined committee meeting last night that the Aberdare Extended colliery would resume work to-day pending a conference…

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AFTER 13 DAYS Dog Rescued from Mine WYALONG

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 30 October 1937 · page 9

A dog wan rescued in an emaciated condition after having been at the bottom of a mine shaft for 13 days without food or water…

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Fall of Coal. Colliery Empolyee Hurt

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 2 November 1937 · page 6

H. James, an employee at the Muswellbrook Colliery, yesterday received cuts on the head when a quantity of coal fell on to him. He received first…

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B.h.p. Collieries Unity Committee Meets

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 2 November 1937 · page 3

According to reports of the officials presented to the Unity Committee at a meeting held at Adamstown last night, there…

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Injured in Mine

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 2 November 1937 · page 5

James Jack (33), of Gordon Avenue, Ceccnock, a miner at Aberdare Central Colliery, suffered an injury to his right shoulder when he slipped and…

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Rain Stops Work EIrington Colliery Idle

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 2 November 1937 · page 3

Risin was responsible for a cessation of work at Elrington Colliery. this morning. The men went to work as usual…

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Bellbird Colliery Idle. Dispute Over Question of Timber

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 2 November 1937 · page 3

At Bellbird Colliery this morning the miners in No. 2 tunnel complained that there was insufficient timber to work the…

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Mine Mechanics Question of Relief Kurri Meeting

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 2 November 1937 · page 5

Mr. A. Leggett, president of the Kurri district members of the Federated Mining Mechan[?] Association, presided over a well…

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Soot May Win at Kenso Has Topweight in Handicap. Jovial Son and Gold Digger to Fill Places

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 2 November 1937 · page 6

The pony Soot has been awarded topweight (9.0) for the Kensington Handicap to he run to-morrow. This mare…

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Fall of Coal

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 3 November 1937 · page 1

John Murphy, 60, of Heddon-street, Kurri Kurri, a miner, at Pelaw Main Colliery, was admitted to Kurri Kurri Hospital to-day with abrasions to the…

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Mine Agreement Wollongong

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 4 November 1937 · page 5

At a conference between the district executive of the Miners' Federation and the executive of the Deputies and Shoo firers' Association it was agreed that the…

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