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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1945

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Coal Disputes Threaten Life of Industry

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 23 May 1945 · page 3

NEWCASTLE Wednesday. — The Minister for Shipping and Supply (Senator Ashley) made a broadcast appeal last night to…

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Gold Yield in N.s.w

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 23 May 1945 · page 5

SYDNEY Wed.—Gold production of New South Wales at 9119 oz. fine, valued at £96,668, for the first quarter of this year, was…

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Seven Mines Idle To-day

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 24 May 1945 · page 1

SYDNEY Thurs—Bellbird Colliery in the north, was idle yesterday because of .a strike of the miners…

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Shelterers in the Coal Industry

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 24 May 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday. — Some men, who had never worked in the mines before, were using the coal industry as a kind of air…

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Turf Review Star Gold Is Ready

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 24 May 1945 · page 5

Star Gold is all set for another victory in sprint company. his last start at Canterbury was tailed off early, but…

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Mine Electrician’ Exam

Maitland Mercury · Friday 25 May 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY Friday.—At the examination for certificates of competency as mine electrician held under the provisions of the Coal…

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Nationalising Coal in France

Maitland Mercury · Friday 25 May 1945 · page 1

LONDON May 25.—A promise that French production of coal and electricity would be nationalised before the end of the year,…

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Value of Dogs As Mine Spotters

Maitland Mercury · Friday 25 May 1945 · page 1

LONDON May 25.—The whole army of dogs used by the Russians as mine spotters helped to discover more than a million…

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47,000 Mines Laid by R.a.a.f

Maitland Mercury · Friday 25 May 1945 · page 5

LONDON May 24—Mines laid by the RAF sank 550 enemy ships and damaged 480 from Bordeaux to the Eastern Baltic. The RAF…

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Whole Of Maitland Mines Work

Maitland Mercury · Monday 28 May 1945 · page 3

CESSNOCK Monday — The whole of the collieries are at work on the Maitland field today. Ellington resumed to-day…

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Colliery Superintendent on Production Lack “Absolutely No Discipline Among Miners”

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 29 May 1945 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Stating that lack of discipline among the miners was the reason for joss of, production Stanley Mckensey, colliery superintendent of Hsbburn and B.H.P. collieries and Metropolitan Coal Co., told the…

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Mine Workers' Pensions

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 29 May 1945 · page 3

An aggregate meeting of mineworkers has been arranged for Sunday next, at the School of Arts, Cessnock, at 10.30 a.m., to hear a report on the…

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Miners Injured at Cessnock

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 29 May 1945 · page 3

CESSNOCK Tues.—Thomas Regan, 49, of Daniel-st., Cessnock a miner employed at Cessnock No. 2 mine, was struck by…

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All Northern Mines Work

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 29 May 1945 · page 1

SYDNEY Tuesday. — For the first time this year every coalmine on Australia’s biggest coaldeld—northern N.S.W.—is…

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Work at the Mines

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 29 May 1945 · page 1

Seventeen minos worked full time for the fortnight ending on Friday last. Details:— Pelaw Main, Duckenfield, Abermain…

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Rise in the Price of Gold

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 29 May 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY Tuesday—Lower realisation charges enabled the Commonwealth Bank to announce yesterday a further Increase In…

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All Western Mines Idle

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 30 May 1945 · page 1

SYDNEY Wed.—All coal mines in the western district of NSW were idle to-day, while the men consider the dispute at the…

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How Navy Beat Magnetic Mines

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 30 May 1945 · page 6

LONDON May 29.—In the battle of the me[?] mine the first technical battle of the war, the Royal Navy won a decisive…

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Loss Of Boots Throws Mine Idle

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 30 May 1945 · page 3

CESSNOCK. Wed. — Stanford Main No. 2 colliery is idle to-day because one of the wheelers lost his working boots from the…

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Coal Shortage

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 31 May 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY Thursday—Chairman of directors of the Australian Gaslight Company (Sir Samuel Hordern) announced today there…

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