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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1949

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Coal Board Application for Electric Power

Singleton Argus · Friday 18 February 1949 · page 8

The Operations Division of the Joint Coal Board last night applied to the Municipal Council for the supply of electric power to Newmain, in the Glendonbrook area. It Is understood the Coal Board has taken over Great…

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Dispute at the B.h.p. Mines

Maitland Mercury · Friday 18 February 1949 · page 5

SYDNEY, Friday.—The General Secretary of the Miners’ Federation, Mr. G. W. S. Grant, at a sitting of the Coal Industry…

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Tools Lost In Extensive Mine Creep at Paxton

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 18 February 1949 · page 1

Much material, Including five electric borers find Rate end. boxes, which are in short supply and necessary for the operation of power borers, was lost in…

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Coal Board Refusal Angers P. and C. No Grant for Text Books

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 18 February 1949 · page 2

Members of the Cessnock High School Parents and Citizens' Association the other night expressed annoyance when they were informed by the…

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New Zealand Horses Expected to Race in Sydney Tauloch and Gold Script Have Imposing Records

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 19 February 1949 · page 5

New Zealand gallopers will be appearing on Australian racecourse when the big meetings come around and one of the best in recent years is Touloch, a classic and weight-forage winner…

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Miners and Their Picnic No Special Train, So No Coal

Singleton Argus · Monday 21 February 1949 · page 1

The Railway Department advised Burwood miners' lodge that it could not give the miners a special train for their…

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Pelton Mine Idle

Maitland Mercury · Monday 21 February 1949 · page 1

CESSNOCK, Monday. — Pelton was the only mine idle on the south Maitland field to-day, there being a dispute on the question…

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Coal Board Refusal Angers Parents

Singleton Argus · Monday 21 February 1949 · page 1

High School Parents and Citizens' Association expressed annoyance when they were informed by the Joint Coal Board it…

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B.H.P. Mines Resume Operations

Maitland Mercury · Monday 21 February 1949 · page 1

NEWCASTLE, Monday.—The strike at BHP coalmines ended this morning when the miners, at a pit top meeting, decided, by…

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Strike Over B.H.P. Mines Resume

Singleton Argus · Monday 21 February 1949 · page 3

The strikeatf the B.H.P.'S coal mines ended this morning, when miners, at a pit top meeting, decided by an…

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Two Collieries Idle

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 22 February 1949 · page 1

CESSNOCK, Tuesday.— Production is being well maintained this week on the South Maitland field…

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Mine Deputy Found In Dozed Condition

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 22 February 1949 · page 1

George Kerv. 56. of [?]-street, Cessnock a deputy at Abermain No.2 Colliery, was found in dazed condition near the mine shaft carly on…

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The New Australian Gold Rush

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 22 February 1949 · page 5

Australian history Is literally shot through with gold. Gold save us wealth in the middle nineteenth century, and the strikes on the Turon, in N.S.W.,…

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Mining Unions Seek Wage Increase

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 22 February 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—All mining unions will seek a 20/ a week increase in pay and a 35-hour week, following a decision…

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Mining Unions to Seek 30/- a Week Increase

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 22 February 1949 · page 1

All mining" unions will seek a 30/ a week increase and a 35-hour week following the decision by yesterday's combined Mining…

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Polo Australasian Gold Cup. Bob Mackay in N.s.w. Team

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 23 February 1949 · page 1

The Australasian Gold Cup, presented for competition between the States and New Zealand by Right Hon. R. T. Melrose, M.L.C., and Mr. Anthony…

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Big Loss in Coal Production

Maitland Mercury · Friday 25 February 1949 · page 5

CESSNOCK, Friday. — The strike on the South Maitland Railways is responsible to-day for a loss in production of about…

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Recovery of Coal in Pillars

Maitland Mercury · Friday 25 February 1949 · page 5

CESSNOCK, Friday.—To permit the extraction of millions of tons of coal, which would otherwise be lost, the Northern…

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Still Trapped in Mine

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 26 February 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sat.—Rescuers [?] been unable to reach two men who were trapped in North Mine on Thursday night. All hope…

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Nationalisation of Coal, Mines Needed

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 1 March 1949 · page 1

(By G. W. S. Grant, General Secretary, Miners' Federation). Day in and day out, it is becoming mere evident that the only solution to the coal problem of Australia is the nationalisation of our coal mines…

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