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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1948

1,406 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 29 of 71

Racing Sidelights Mine Host Should Win Engaged in Flying Handicap Earl Pentheus Will Be Close Up

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 4 June 1948 · page 6

There are no outstanding sprinters engaged in the six furlong Flying Handicap at Randwick to-morrow, with the result that the aged gelding…

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Coal Decision Reserved

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 5 June 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Saturday. —The Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. P. H. Gallagher) reserved his decision on the application by the northern district…

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Local and General. Macleay Coal Seam

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 5 June 1948 · page 2

It would seem that the Macleay hopes of Having a payable coal seam, with which a vital secondary industry could be built, are gradually fading;…

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Protest On Miners’ Attacks

Maitland Mercury · Monday 7 June 1948 · page 2

The Hunter Federal Council et the Australian Labour Party, at a meeting in West Maitland yesterday decided to ask the state executive…

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Drive to Shift Wheat Coal and Trucks Made Available

Singleton Argus · Monday 7 June 1948 · page 2

The Railway Department is making a drive to shift 46,000000 bushels of wheat from country sidings to the seaboard…

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Social Service Tax on Retired Miners

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 8 June 1948 · page 4

The Northern District Board of Retired, Mineworkers' Association decided to request, the request the Prime Minister that the minimum amount…

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Colliery Rugby League Carnival at Sports Ground Next

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 8 June 1948 · page 3

Next Sunday is the day set down for the big colliery rugby league carnival which is being organised by the Cessnock Junior Rugby League committee…

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Conferred on Mining Methods

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 8 June 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Central Executive of the Miners’ Federation to-day conferred with the American engineer, W. M…

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One Mine [?]

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 9 June 1948 · page 1

CESSNOCK, Wedn[?] only mine idle on [?] Maitland filed to-day[?] dare Extended. The [?]…

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Mine Electricians’ Certificate

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 9 June 1948 · page 4

At the examination for certificate of competency as mine electrician under the Coal Mines Regulation Act, 1912-1947, held…

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Blue and Gold Ball

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 9 June 1948 · page 2

The C.W.A. is holding its annual Blue and Gold Ball on Friday night, 25th June. Strollers' Orchestra has been engaged, for the evening, and a…

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Shire Allocated £10,599 For Two Coal Roads

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 9 June 1948 · page 3

The Joint Coal Board advised Lower Hunter Shire Council to-day that approval had been given to the allocation of £10,599,8' for the…

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Threat to Gold Mining

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 10 June 1948 · page 8

SYDNEY, Thurs—Because of the fixed price of gold and rising costs, the goldmining industry in Australia. was in a similar…

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Miners’ Demand On Doctors

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 10 June 1948 · page 5

CESSNOCK, Thursday. — The Mayor of Cessnock, Ald. Brown, at the request of a meeting of miners’ lodge delegates, is calling a public…

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Water Pumped From Mine

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 10 June 1948 · page 4

Work was suspended at Caledon open-cut mine yesterday afternoon while Wart Maitland are brigade officers pumped nearly four feet of…

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Owners to Oppose Miners’ Claim for 35-Hour Week

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 10 June 1948 · page 4

SYDNEY, Thursday—The Coal Industry Tribunal, Mr. Gallagher, has adjourned until June 28, at Wollongong, the application toy the Miners’ Federation for a 35 hours' week of five seven-hour shifts without loss of pay…

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Miners’ Leader Refunded Expenses to Federation Union Officials Reply To Lang

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 10 June 1948 · page 4

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Money received by the general president of the Miners’ Federation, Mr. Idris Williams, as miners’ representative on the board of inquiry into the cool industry from January, 1945, to January, 1946, was…

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Miners Defy Tribunal

Maitland Mercury · Friday 11 June 1948 · page 5

SYDNEY, Friday. — Excelsior Colliery miners, who have been on strike for three weeks, refused to obey an order of the Coal…

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All Mines Working

Maitland Mercury · Friday 11 June 1948 · page 5

CESSNOCK. Friday. —All mines on the South Maitland coalfield are at work to-day…

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Dust In Mines

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 11 June 1948 · page 5

ONE of the many problems facing the coal industry on the technical side is the problem of dusty roads in the mines…

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