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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1940

1,148 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 52 of 58

High Caste Beats Gold Salute

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 8 November 1940 · page 7

High Caste had a very easy victory in the Linlithgow Stakes at Flemington yesterday. Reading made the running early, but once in the…

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Baerami Shale Deposits. Absorption of Unemployed Miners

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 8 November 1940 · page 1

Replying, in Parliament, to a question asked by Mr. J. M. Baddeley regarding the Baerami shale deposits, the Premier (Mr. Mair) said:—…

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Tragedy in New Zealand Five Dead in Mine Blast

Singleton Argus · Friday 8 November 1940 · page 2

Five men were killed and two injured on Wednesday in an explosion at the Cooperative mine at Ten Mile Creek, on the South Island of…

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Baerami Shale Oil Venture Work for Unemployed Miners. Mr. Baddeley's Plan

The Scone Advocate · Friday 8 November 1940 · page 5

The absorption of unemployed miners in the shale oil industry which will be established at Baerami, near Muswellbrook, by a company with…

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Price of Gold Canberra

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 9 November 1940 · page 3

The Common wealth Bank fixed the price of gold lodged at the [?] on Thursday at [?] an [?] are [?] each…

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British Ship Sunk Off Australian Coast May Have Struck Mine SYDNEY

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 9 November 1940 · page 2

As the [?] to strking a [?] British versal has been sunk off the Australian coast It is he fourth [?] the war [?] months…

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Second Ship Sunk Off Our Coast American Trader Blows—Up Drifting Mine Blamed Sydney

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 9 November 1940 · page 1

Believed to have struck a mine, the American motor ship, City of Ray[?] 5883 tons, blow up and sank this morning off Cape Otway. It was Ike second ship to be lost by…

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Offer Rejected Dispute At Abermain Mines CESSNOCK

Maitland Mercury · Monday 11 November 1940 · page 1

The engi[?] whose dispute has caused Aber[?] No. 2 and No.3 collieries to be idle, re[?]sed to resume work on the conditions offered…

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Mine Definitely Laid by Enemy Raider (Australian Press Association.) MELBOURNE

Singleton Argus · Monday 11 November 1940 · page 2

A statement issued by the Naval Intelligence Department late this afternoon says: "The mines which sank the British…

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Elrington Colliery Statement by Miners' Check Inspector

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 12 November 1940 · page 1

Mr. W. H. May, Northern Miners' Check Inspector, has issued the following statement in relation to Elrington Colliery:—…

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Enemy Mines

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 12 November 1940 · page 4

Mines swept up by Australian navel [?] are definitely of enemy off [?] but the authorities will not dis[?] they are German of…

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Northern Miners' Officials. Kurri Lodges' Nominations

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 12 November 1940 · page 4

The following nominations for Northern District Miners' Federation officials have been made by Richmond Main and Pelaw Main Miners' Lodges:…

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Struck by Falling Coal Cessnock

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 12 November 1940 · page 5

Hubert Hodge, 40. of Melbourne Avenue, Cessnock a shiftman employed at Aberdare Central colliery, suffered extensive lacerations to the…

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Two Ships Lost Off Australian Coast Believed to Have Struck Mines. Sydney

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 12 November 1940 · page 4

Believed to have struck a mine, the American motorship-City of Rayville, of 5884 tons, blew up and sank this morning off Cape Otway…

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British or Enemy Mines Question of Identity

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 13 November 1940 · page 2

To remove any misapprehension which might exist with regard to mines in Bass Strait, the Navy Office has issued the following statement:…

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Cyclonic Storm Damages At Mining Town DARWIN

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 14 November 1940 · page 7

An Anglican church was destroyed and a number of houses were damaged by a cyclone at Pine Creek, a mining settlement on the railway line…

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Idle Collieries Cessnock

Maitland Mercury · Friday 15 November 1940 · page 5

Abermain No 2 and No 3[?] are still Idle The [?] concerned the [?] The disputed had been adjest but it is not [?]…

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Stockrmgton Colliery Road

Maitland Mercury · Friday 15 November 1940 · page 4

Mr. G. Booth, M.L.A., has arranged with the Minister , for: Works and Weal Government (Mr. Martin); to inspect the Seahamptos Stockrington…

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Two Injured Collieries At Kurri KURRI

Maitland Mercury · Friday 15 November 1940 · page 5

All [?] 47 of [?] street Swansea a miner employed at Richmond Main colliery suffered an injury to the left [?] while at…

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