Escaping Gas Mine Workman Overcome WOLLONGONG
Nine men who were working on a blast furnace at the Port Kembla Steelworks were overcome by carbon monoxide gas. Only one of them…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1939
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Motoring on Coal Gas New Engine Which Does Away with Petrol
British members of Parliament are shortly to be shown new types of motor car engines driven by high-compression coal gas, which, it is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Theft of Gold Racing Cup Believed to Have Gone Into Melting Pot
Two gold goblet racing cups, stolen from the Malvern (Melbourne) home of Mr. Fred Kitchen, leading-sportsman, are believed to have gone into…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →RACING Sidelights. Gold Rod Our Pick Selected to Win Warwick Stakes. Defaulter Next Best
Now that the Spring meetings are drawing closer all the class horess are being wound up and a large…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Coal Gas Use In New Car Engine LONDON, August 11
British Members of Parliament are shortly to be shown new types of motor car engines driven by high-compression coal gas which, it is claimed…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fatality at Rothbury Colliery Branxton Youth Killed
Keith Carlton Partridge, aged 16, top hand, of High Street, Branxton, was killed when a runaway cage and skips knocked out the timbering and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining Dispute Auckland
Four hundred miners at the Macdonald and Glen Afton mines, near Huntly, have decided to strike as a protest against the dismissal of a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Three Mines Idle The Cessnock Field CESSNOCK
There were two mines idle in the Cessnock field to-day. Aberdare Central and Maitland Alain. The stoppage at Aberdare Central was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Work at the Mines
The mines comprising the Bellbird and Hebburn groups, on the top field, worked full-time during the fortnight…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Accidents at Kurri District Mines
There were several accidents at collieries in the Kurri Kurri district yesterday. William Fenn, 56, a shiftman…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Stoppages at Mines. Three Idle Yesterday
Three collieries were idle in the Cessnock district yesterday. They were Aberdare Central, Maitland Main, and Aberdare…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fall of Coal Machine Man Injured Kurri Kurri
Robert James, 58, of Pelaw Main, a machine man, employed at Pelaw Main Colliery, received lacerations to the hand and probable internal…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Still Idle Aberdare Colliery CESSNOCK
Aberdare Colliery is idle to-day owing to the complaint, by the men that sufficient clippers are not employed at slipping s[?]ges…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →New Gold Record
A record price of £10/6/7 per fine ounce was fixed by the Commonwealth Bank for gold lodged at the Melbourne and Perth mints for the week ended…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mine to Work Bellbird Disaster Anniversary CESSNOCK
To-morrow will be the 16th anniversary of the Bellbird colliery disaster. As a result of the explosion, which followed a fire, 21 lives were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bush Fire Homes Threatened At Coal Point NEWCASTLE
Fanned by a strong south-westerly breeze, a fire which broke out on the Kilaben-Coal Point road last night, threatened a number of houses…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →100 Days' Work Miners Make A Record Strike to Celebrate Cessnock
Having worked continuously for 100 days without a strike, creating a reword without precedent in the 30 years' history of the mine, miners at the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Water for Kalingo Colliery
At a meeting of the Hunter District Water Board this week the shipping manager of Cessnock Collieries Ltd. applied for water to the company's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Queensland Gold Yield
The Queensland gold yield for July was 11,442 fine ounces, valued at £48,602, compared with 11,659 fine ounces, valued at £49,524 for the…
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