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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1943

1,296 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 65 of 65

Millfield Mine Still Idle

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 21 December 1943 · page 3

CESSNOCK Tues.—The only idle colliery on the Maitland field to-day is Millfield, where a dispute exists over the payment for…

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No Extra Meat for Miners

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 21 December 1943 · page 3
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The Minister for Customs (Senator Keane) has informed the Executive of the Miners' Federation that there is no possibility of having the meat ration…

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Gold Salute May Race at Newcastle

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 23 December 1943 · page 5

Gold Salute, who ran second to Kimbell in the Highweight Handicap at Randwick on Saturday, has been nominated for the…

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Confidence in Gold Russia Wants World Standard

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 23 December 1943 · page 1

Expression of authoritative Russian opinion in favour of a return to the gold standard has strengthened confidence in gold's assured place with the…

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Miners' Holidays

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 24 December 1943 · page 3

Muswellbrook miners will enter on their annual holidays with the completion of to-day's shifts. Work will be resumed on 3rd January next…

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Mine Surveyers

Maitland Mercury · Friday 24 December 1943 · page 5

SYDNEY Friday — The following were successful at the mist surveyors’ examination held at Newcastle on November 9 and 29:…

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Army Release of Miners

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 24 December 1943 · page 6

The General Secretary of the Miners' Federation (Mr. Grant) said the Minister for the Army was evading the issue of the release of additional miners from…

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JANUARY 3rd.—MINERS Want Penalty Rates

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 24 December 1943 · page 1

The Miners' Federation will apply to the newly-constituted Coal Reference Board, with Mr. A. C. Willis as Chairman, for the payment of penalty rates…

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The Year’s Coal Production 11,500,000 Tons

Maitland Mercury · Friday 24 December 1943 · page 1

SYDNEY Friday—The general secretary of the Miners’ Federation, Mr. G. W. S. Grant, to-day estimated that NSW coal…

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The Coal Problem

Maitland Mercury · Monday 27 December 1943 · page 2

WHILE it is generally felt that production hold-ups, avoidable and unavoidable, largely contribute to the coal…

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Building Up Coal Stocks

Maitland Mercury · Monday 27 December 1943 · page 2

SYDNEY Monday—Every avenue for further coal cuts was being explored said a Coal Commission spokesman Stocks must…

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Derailment on Coal Line

Maitland Mercury · Monday 27 December 1943 · page 3

Police are inquiring into the cause of the derailment of an engine and six trucks near the Pelaw Main bridge on the railway…

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To-day’s Leader : The Coal Problem Grim Fighting in Ortona

Maitland Mercury · Monday 27 December 1943 · page 1

LONDON December 26.—Grim street fighting continues in Ortuna following a Christmas Day marked by heavy fighting along…

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Mine Order Defied At Wonthaggi

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 29 December 1943 · page 3

MELBOURNE Wednesday. — Coalminers at Wonthaggi have decided not to resume work at the State coalmine until January…

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Gold Salute Arrives in Newcastle

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 30 December 1943 · page 3

Ten Sydney horses, including Gold Salute, with engagements at the Newcastle Jockey Club’s future at Broad meadow on Saturday,…

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Underground Gasworks Putting Coal to Practical Use

Singleton Argus · Friday 31 December 1943 · page 4

The idea of buriling coal where nature put it, and drawing off the gas at the pit-head, is net new, but Russia appears to…

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