Stole Timber From Colliery Sawyer Fined
Edward Ward a sawyer, pleaded "Guilty" at Cessnock Court this morning to a charge of having, during September, stolen timber valued at…
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Mining & the mines, 1949
1,558 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 77 of 78
Protest Strike by Miners
NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.—Two big northern mines are idle to-day as a protest against the rejection by the Coal Industry Tribunal…
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CESSNOCK. Tuesday — At Elrington Colliery a skip carrying a door dislodged a prop which struck three men following the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cessnock Miners Auxiliary Election of Officers
The Cessnock Miners Women's Auxiliary held its final meeting for the year on Tuesday morning when officers for the new term were elected…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →N.S.W. Coal Products Last Week
Estimated coal production in New South Wales last week totalled 307,919 tons, including 266,987 tons won underground, and 40,932 tons from…
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Four hundred thousand American soft coal miners are expected to strike on January 1 for higher wages and welfare fund payments…
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CESSNOCK, Wednesday.—Production is down about 2000 tons on the South Maitland coalfields to-day…
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CESSNOCK, Thursday.—Pelton colliery, which was idle for three days and Aberdare Central which lost a day yesterday, both resumed…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →State Coal Mine for District Wanted
A conference of members of Cessnock Municipal Council and State and Federal parliamentarians will be a ranged by council to discuss the…
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Last year fettlers from Hebburn No. 1 colliery killed 17 snakes in the colliery yard. So far this year their tally is one…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Kurri Mine Pensioners
At the final meeting of Kurri Retired Mineworker Pensioners members expressed thanks to all who had as sited the branch throughout the year…
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SYDNEY: The Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. F. H. Gallagher) this week rejected the claim by the Miners' Federation for a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Joint Coal Board Projects in Kearsley Shire
The Joint Coal Board informed Kearaley Shire Council on Tuesday night that it declined to alter its previous decision relating to the matter…
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In future, all open-cut coal production in New South Wales will be controlled by the N.S.W. Mining Company, a new…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Register of Miners' Qualifications Suggested Inquest Into Bellbird Miner's Death
The Northern District Check Inspector (Mr. J. Barrett) told the Cessnock District Coroner (Mr. R. J. Howard) at Cessnock Courthouse yesterday that he thought the Mines Department should compile a register of miners' qualifications and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Entered Mine Working Without Safety Lamps Evidence at Inquest Into Millfield Fatalities
Evidence was given at the inquest held by the district coroner (Mr. R. Howard) at Cessnock courthouse to-day the death of two officiate of Millfield colliery who lost their fives in the waste of the mine on November…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£15,000 Damage to Machinery by Fire at Bellbird Colliery
CESSNOCK, Monday.— An[?]early early morning blaze in the building housing the haulage machinery for No. 2 tunnel at Bellbird…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners’ Ballot: Right Wing Now in Control of North G. H. Neilly New District President
NEWCASTLE, Monday. — With the election of [?] A.L.P. candidate, Mr. G. H. Neilly, as president of the [?] thern district of the Miners’ Federation, control of [?] district has now passed completely into the hands of [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mine Pensioner Shares Second Prize In Lottery
KURRI KURRI, Tuesday. — For the second time in two days lottery luck came to Kurri in the winning of second prize in the State Lottery…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miners' New President. Mr. G. H. Neilly Elected
With the election of an A.L.P. candidate, Mr. G. H. Neilly, as president of the northern district of the Miners' Federation, control of this…
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