Miners and Back Saturday Work Decision Expected To-day
A decision on the proposal of the Joint Coal Board that mineworkers work every second Saturday until Christmas was expected to be made…
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Mining & the mines, 1947
1,145 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 34 of 58
Amenities For Colliery Employees
BRANXTON: The club rooms and sports arens being built by the proprietors of Ay[?] 3 Collieries Ltd. (Messrs R. W…
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CESSNOCK, Tuesday.— Hebburn [?] thrown Idle to-day when [?]clippers and [?] the [?] of an…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Kurri Mine Pensioners Protest Against Salary Rise
At a meeting of Kurri Kurri branch of the Retired Mine Pensioners Association a resolution was carried protesting against the rise in salary of State…
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SINGLETON, Wed.—A miner, Archibald Henry “Laddie”) Lannd[?] [?] son of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Landers, of 10…
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LONDON, August 13.—A four four meeting between the Coal Board and the miners’ leaders yesterday again failed to reach…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Young Miner Collapsed; Dead Within 2 Hours Tragedy At Bayswater Colliery
Archibald Henry ("Laddio") Landers, aged 24, who was employed at Bayswater Colliery, near Ravensworth, collapsed in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners’ Lodge Officials Resign
CESSNOCK, Thurs.—Lodge officials of Hepburn No. 2 have resigned as a result of the action of the wheelers and clippers in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners Strike For Better Meals
ADELAIDE, Thurs—Miners at the State’s coalfield at Leigh Creek are on strike for better meals, and have presented to the…
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CESSNOCK. Friday. — The [?] collieries on the Maitland field today are Hebburn No. 2 which has bon idle for the greater part of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Miners to Ballot On Saturday Shift
A ballot will be held on all N.S.W. coalfields on Thursday, August 28, to decide whether miners will…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New Township and Pleasant Surroundings For Miners
Mineworkers will soon have a new township built on up-to-date lines in ideal surroundings…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →“Fishermen Of Death” Germans Still Clearing Mines
BREMERHAVEN (Germany), (Associated Press): The war time job of clearing mine fields is still under way, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →180 Men Trapped in English Mine
LONDON, August 16.— Gas and heavy falls of the roof have hindered rescue parties trying to reach 18 miners trapped four miles under the sea in Whitehaven colliery. The men are in the William pit, where an explosion…
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CESSNOCK, Monday.—With the resumption of work at Hebburn No. 2 colliery to-day the whole of the mines are at work to-day on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Natives Find Gold
ADELAIDE, Monday—Although samples of gold brought Into Tarcoola, on the east-west railway line by a mission native assay…
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CESSNOCK, Monday.—Richard Wood. 19 of North Avenue, Cessnock, a mineworker, employed at Aberdare Colliery was caught by a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →300 Fatherless Through Mine Disaster Ninety Bodies Recovered
LONDON, August 18.—Ninety bodies have been uncovered from the Whitehaven colliery following Friday’s explosion. Sixty-nine bodies have been brought to the surface…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mine Lodge Officials Have Right to Discipline Hebburn No. 2 Worked Again To-day
Hebburn No. 2 Miners Lodge, on the Maitland field, last night upheld the right of its officials to discipline men for irresponsible…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Work at the Mines
At least 18. Northern mines worked the full time of 10 days in the past fortnight. Details:—"Aberdare, Alberdare Extended…
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