Gold Price
An increase of 1/- to £10/10/- a fine ounce in the Australian price of gold is announced by the Commonwealth Bank. It applies to gold lodged…
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Mining & the mines, 1944
1,369 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 37 of 69
Kalingo Coal Waste
A deputation, including Messrs. Moore and Victor, lodge officials of Kalingo colliery, accompanied by the Acting District Check Inspector (Mr. J…
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NEWCASTLE Tuesday—Representatives of the Retired Mineworkers’ Pensioners Association discussed pension matters with…
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MUSWELLBROOK, Dr. Raggart, geologist, and Messrs. Booker and whiting of the Mines Department, accompanied…
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At a meeting of the Northern Miners' Board of Management yesterday, it was decided to instruct lodges that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Home News "New Deal for Miners"
"Miners would get a new deal if they produced the coal necessary for Australia's war commitments, said the Acting Prime Minister, Mr. Forde…
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Insistence by the Northern Miners' Board of Management that men engaged on any form of open cut mining must…
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SYDNEY Tuesday—Coal production losses at six New South Wales coalmines to-day are estimated at 4800 tons. The latest…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →All Mines on South Maitland Field Work To-day
All mines on the South Maitland Coalfields were working to-day. It is hoped that the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Appeal For Greater Coal Production. Acting Prime Minister and Mr. F. Collindridge Duty to Fighting Men and Those in Prison Camps Coal Reserves at Dangerous Low Ebb. Prospects of Thousands of Other Workers Losing Employment
At Cessnock and Kurri Kurri on Sunday the Acting Prime Minister (Mr. V. M. Forde) and the British Member of Parliament, Mr. Frank Collindridge, made an appeal to mineworkers to increase production. Mr. Forde promised the mineworkers that the Government would give serious consideration to…
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A production loss of 1100 tons of coal was averted at Stockton Borehole colliery to-day when the mine manager, Mr. J. Harle, in an appeal…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.—Six mines are idle on the New South Wales coalfields today, and two are partly idle. Production loss is…
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Albert Baker, 52, of Dear[?] street, Kuril Kurri, an elect[?] machine [?]borer at Bloomfi[?] South colliery, received [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Referendum Work [?] CONVENTION “Not Mine” : Says Mr. Curtin
CANBERRA Thursday—“The referendum is no lo[?] my referendum. It is the referendum of the Commonwe[?] Parliament and of the State Premiers and leaders of Opposition,” said the Prime Minister, Mr. Curtin, as a [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Colliery Accident
Mr. Albert Baker, aged 52. borer, of Deacon Street, Kurri Kurri suffered severe contusions to his left hip and sustained shock when struck by a fall…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Work at the Collieries
Stanford Main No. 2 colliery, which was idle yesterday owing to a dispute regarding a payment to a youth, was again idle to-day…
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NEW YORK, July 6.—Hope of saving 64 miners trapped in Powhatan colliery, Ohio, has been abandoned. Fire broke out below the surface yesterday,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Miners Pension Fund
SYDNEY Friday — The Commonwealth Coal Commissioner (Mr. Migbell), commenting on a statement by the president of the…
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SYDNEY Friday.—Eight mines are Idle throughout the State today resulting in a loss of 6800 tons on the production drive…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners' Support for Referendum
The referendum was discussed by the Miners' Northern Board of Management and the following resolution was carried:…
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