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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1941

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Miners' Leave Clauses

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 17 January 1941 · page 6

At the conclusion of the Coalmining Central Reference Board meeting yesterday, the President of the Miners' Federation (Mr. Nelson) said that…

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Hold-ups at the Collieries. Deficiency Claims Refused

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 17 January 1941 · page 5

There have been many hold ups at the collieries in the district this week. Many of these stoppages could have been…

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Gold Price

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 18 January 1941 · page 2

The Common wealth Bank yesterday fixed the price of gold [?]odged at the [?] at [?] [?]verigns are [?] each…

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Cessnock Miners End Beer Strike

Singleton Argus · Monday 20 January 1941 · page 4

The secretary of the Northern Coalfields Beer Strike Committee (Mr C. Evans) has announced that, following a conference with…

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Few Zones Only Roumanian Mines (A a P Service) LONDON Jan 19

Maitland Mercury · Monday 20 January 1941 · page 1

LONDON; Jan. 19, been circulated in Berlin Bucharest denying the story Roumanian territorial waters have been mined…

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Contract Work Miners Seek Higher Wages

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 22 January 1941 · page 4

The Northern Miners' Federation has adopted claims for higher rates for contract work. The claims are:-Pick-won coal,…

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Mine Accidents Injured When Lifting- Skip CESSNOCK

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 22 January 1941 · page 1

Thomas Walton,- 60, of Kitchener, a labourer, employed an Aberdare Central Colliery, received injuries to the groin when Iifting a skip at work…

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Pensions for Miners

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 23 January 1941 · page 6

THE recommendation of the Royal Commission, on Miners’ Pensions that a scheme for compulsory retirement of coal and shale mineworkers at 60 should be adopted, providing for pensions to be paid to such workers and their dependents,…

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Kalingo Mine Preparing Pit For Mechanisation CESSNOCK

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 23 January 1941 · page 1

At Kalingo colliery, where the contract miners have not resumed, work this year, shiftmen are preparing the pit for mechanised units. The…

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Pension Scheme for Miners Recommendations of Royal Commission

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 23 January 1941 · page 6

The Royal Commission -which inquired into [?] for miners, recommends that a scheme for compulsory retirement of coal and oil shale mineworkers at 60 should be adopted by law as a measure justifiable both on its own merits as a social…

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Control of Coal Industry Government Should Take Over SYDNEY

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 23 January 1941 · page 1

The Deputy Leader of the Official Labour Party, Mr. J. M, Baddeley M.L.A., is now preparing a bill for Government control of…

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To-day’s Leaders: Pensions for Miners Prophets and Drones Costly Ride One Gaoled : Other Fined Used Motor Cycles Newcastle

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 23 January 1941 · page 1

At ten o’clock last night a motor cycle was taken from the front of [?]field Picture Theatre and another, later in the…

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Mechanisation of Kalingo Colliery

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 24 January 1941 · page 1

Contract miners have not resumed work at Kalingo colliery this year. Shiftmen are preparing the pit for the…

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Fatal Accident at Pelaw Main Colliery

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 24 January 1941 · page 5

Matthew Tickle, 69, of Aberdare-street, Kurri Kurri, was fatally injured at Pelaw Main colliery yesterday…

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Pension Scheme for Miners Royal Commission's Recommendations

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 24 January 1941 · page 1

The compulsory retirement on pension of coal and shale mine workers at 60 years of age has been recommended to the…

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Miners Welcome Pension Plan. Some Query Levy, Lithgow

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 24 January 1941 · page 7

Mr. Campbell Roy, a former president of the Western Miners' Federation, who organised the miners' case before the Royal Commission on…

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RACING Sidelights. Gold Salute for Challenge Is Short Priced Favourite. Trimmer Hardest to Beat

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 24 January 1941 · page 7

Although there are only ten horses left in the Challenge Stakes, to be run at Randwick to-morrow, most of them have…

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The Coolgardie Goldfields. Their Finding and Development

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 24 January 1941 · page 6

Written for the "Eagle" by Mr. Dill Rennex who, as a young man, spent years on the West Australian goldfields. Mr. Rennex saw the growth of the goldfields and met many notable people in W.A. during those hectic days. He…

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Mine Disputes Local Reference Boards Minister‘s Plans Sydney

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 25 January 1941 · page 1

The question of the establishment of local reference boards was discussed to-day between a deputation from the Miners…

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Disabled Warship Sunk by Torpedo Hit Mine in Adriatic (Australian Associated Press) LONDON, Jan. 24

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 25 January 1941 · page 1

Disabled by a mine, the British destroyer Hyperion, at 1340 tons was sunk by a torpedo from another British destroyer when efforts to tow her failed. The Hyperion, elates the Admiralty, was leading a sweep…

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