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Mining & the mines, 1949

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Committed For Trial On Nine Charges of Larceny Ex Chief Clerk of Joint Coal Board in Singleton Court

Singleton Argus · Friday 7 October 1949 · page 3

Donald McKellar Clarke, ex chief clerk, operations division of the Singleton branch of the Joint Coal Board, was committed for trial yesterday at the local police court on nine charges of larceny as…

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Coal Won by Troops

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 8 October 1949 · page 2

CANBERRA, Sat. — When troops and the RAAF were working the open cut mines, 107,188 tons of coal were delivered to…

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Notes and Comment Coal Board Grants

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 8 October 1949 · page 2

Residents of Swansea and Belmont, many of whom are miners, will to the future have a magnificent golf course for their…

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Tribunal Not Linked with Coal Board Judgements ‘Completely Independent’

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 8 October 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Saturday.—The Coal Industry Tribunal, Mr. Gallagher, told miners’ representatives yesterday that he was not linked with the coal Board or the Government in any way, and his judgements were “completely independent”…

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Coal for Christmas Miners May Be Asked to Curtail Holidays

Singleton Argus · Monday 10 October 1949 · page 4

The Joint Coal Board may ask the Coal Industry Tribunal, Mr. F, Gallagher, to limit the miners' annual…

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Ranvensworth Mines Now In Production Good Coal Anticipated Within Few Days

Singleton Argus · Monday 10 October 1949 · page 2

Ravensworth coal mine produced its first coal at the week-end when operators moved and dumped approximately 300 tons of inferior coal from the surface of the seam…

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All Mines Worked

Maitland Mercury · Monday 10 October 1949 · page 3

CESSNOCK, Mon.—The whole of the mines on South Maitland fields are at work to-day…

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Workman Hurt At Mine

Maitland Mercury · Monday 10 October 1949 · page 3

CESSNOCK, Monday.—Frederick Hennessy, 26, of Bourke-street, Cessnock, a bricklayer, employed at Aberdare Central…

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Miners Strike On Benefits Act

Maitland Mercury · Monday 10 October 1949 · page 1

WOLLONGONG, Monday. — Miners at South Bu[?] stopped work to-day as a protest against the decision of the High Court…

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Challenge to Reds in Miners' Federation

Singleton Argus · Monday 10 October 1949 · page 3

Bitter struggles for power by the Communists and their opponents in the Miners' Federation and the N.S.W. branch…

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Gold Sales in South Africa

Maitland Mercury · Monday 10 October 1949 · page 2

LONDON, Oct. 10 (AAP). — The Stock Exchange was disappointed that the speech by the South African Finance Minister…

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What Miners’ President Says On Shorter Week

Maitland Mercury · Monday 10 October 1949 · page 3

The president of the Miners’ Federation (Mr I. Williams) told the Coal Industry Tribunal to-day that an immense…

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Open Cut Mines Unsightly Council Will Object to Further Development

Singleton Argus · Monday 10 October 1949 · page 1

Aldermen of the Cessnock Municipal Council will object to the further development of open cut mining in the…

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Less Men Enter Mining Industry Evidence Before Coal Tribunal

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 11 October 1949 · page 3

Few of the men who left the mines to go into the Army or [?] factories during the war returned to coalmining when the war…

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Northern Miners’ President

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 11 October 1949 · page 2

Mr. W. Crook, who has been elected to represent Cessnock in the New South Wales Parliament, has resigned his position…

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Estimated Coal Production

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 11 October 1949 · page 5

Estimated coal production in New South Wales for the week ended October 1 was:— Cessnock, underground 88,734,…

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Only One Mine Idle

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 11 October 1949 · page 3

Only one mine was idle on the South Maitland field to-day. Loco drivers at Elrington colliery objected to the quality of sand in the…

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Miners Complain Of Sand

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 11 October 1949 · page 1

CESSNOCK, Tuesday.—Elrington is the only idle colliery on the South Maitland field to-day. The idleness is over what the men claim to be a…

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Coal Board Clerk for Trial

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 11 October 1949 · page 2

At the Singleton court on Thursday, Donald McKellar Clarke, formerly employed by the Joint Coal Board at Singleton, as chief clerk, appeared on…

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Hand Crushed By Coal Hopper

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 11 October 1949 · page 1

CESSNOCK, Tuesday.—John Elliott, 20, of Kitchener-road, Cessnock, a miner, employed at Bellbird colliery, had his left…

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