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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1945

904 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 7 of 46

25 Mines Work Full Time

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 6 February 1945 · page 1

Coal production Improved on the nor-thern coalfields during the fortnight ended on Friday last Details:— Duckenfield, Abermain No. 3,…

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Fall of Coal at Bollbi[?]d

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 6 February 1945 · page 3

Two men were buried by a fall of coal which came away without warning yesterday morning in Bellbird colliery…

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Support for Workers' Clubs. Aberdare Miners' Lead Ers Commended. (Contributed)

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 6 February 1945 · page 3

In advocating support for the establishment of Coal-fields Workers' Clubs, the executive, at a conference of…

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Mine Victim’s Body Recovered

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 7 February 1945 · page 4

IPSWICH Wednesday. — The body of Arthur Keidge, 50, was recovered from New Ebbw Vale mine at Woodend at noon under…

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Two Mines Idle on Coalfield

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 7 February 1945 · page 3

The only mines Idle on the Maitland coalfields today, are the Pelton and Abermain No. 1. Abermain No. 1 has been idle…

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Miners’ Clubs Backed by Shire Council

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 7 February 1945 · page 3

CESSNOCK Wed. — At its meeting last night, Kearsley Shire Council decided to be represented at a conference…

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U.s. Coal and Steel Centre

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 7 February 1945 · page 1

Pittsburgh, in the north-eastern U.S. State [?] is the centre of the American coal and steel industries. The Ohio River, one of the major tributaries of the mammoth Mississippi River, rises near Pittsburgh. Some mine[?] load[?] directly into…

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Value of N.S.W. Coal Output

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 7 February 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY Wed. — The Minister for Mines (Mr. J. M. Baddeley) revealed that in the five years from the beginning of 1939 to the…

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Mine Manager Fined

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 8 February 1945 · page 3

Pleading guilty at East Maitland court to-day to having committed a breach of the Coal Mines Regulation Act. Percival…

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Big Coal Output

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 8 February 1945 · page 6

LITHGOW, Thurs.—A new coal production record for 1945 was created by Western miners yesterday, when tonnage won was…

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Good Week at Collieries

Maitland Mercury · Friday 9 February 1945 · page 3

CESSNOCK Friday. — Production on the Maitland field was maintained at a high level this week. The only mines idle were…

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Miners' Future Plans

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 9 February 1945 · page 5

A plan for full employment on the coalfields in peace and war, which will be presented to the coal inquiry by the…

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Miner’s Death

Maitland Mercury · Friday 9 February 1945 · page 4

NEWCASTLE Fri.—George Archibald, 54, of Mi[?] a miner who complained of a pain in the chest after he had moved some…

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Kept Promises to Miners

Maitland Mercury · Friday 9 February 1945 · page 4

CANBERRA Friday—Replying to criticisms by the miners’ general president (Mr. Wells) and the general secretary (Mr…

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Miners’ Plan For Peace And War

Maitland Mercury · Friday 9 February 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY Friday—The Miners’ Central Council adopted a plan for full employment on the coalfields in peace and war. This will…

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War Bonuses for Servicemen and Women. Kalingo Colliery Resolution

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 9 February 1945 · page 2

Kalingo colliery has passed the following resolutions in reference to war bonuses for personnel of the services: M "That we, the members of Kalingo…

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Workmen's Clubs Request by Aberdare Miners' Lodge

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 9 February 1945 · page 1

A request has been made by Aberdare miners' lodge for the support of Kearsley Council in an effort to install…

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Mr. Beasley. To Visit Open Cut Mine

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 9 February 1945 · page 2

The Hon. J. A. Beasley, M.P., VicePresident of the Executive Council in the Commonwealth Parliament, and Mr. Meighell (Commonwealth Coal…

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Pelton-Ellalong Road. Damage to Surface Caused by Mining Operations

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 9 February 1945 · page 1

At the Kearsley Shire Council meeting on Tuesday night the Shire Engineer reported:— "Several cracks about three-quarters…

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Conditions in Queensland Coal Mines

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 10 February 1945 · page 5

SYDNEY Saturday—Condition in Queensland mines were so had that similar tragedies in the one which [?] at New [?] Vals [?] when four [?] as the result of an explosion could be expected in the…

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