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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1951

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Sandy Hollow Wants Electricity. Approach to be Made to Coal Company

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 10 April 1951 · page 1

A letter received from D. K. Cowan, read at yesterday's Shire Council meeting, asked Unit the council use its influence with the…

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Two Mines Idle

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 11 April 1951 · page 5

CESSNOCK: Production [?] on the South Maitland [?] to-day is less than [?] loas. The late [?]larles are…

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Mining, Past and Present (By “Old Timer”)

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 11 April 1951 · page 2

To-day we see the country clamouring for coal amid innumerable strikes. How different from the past, when many mines were idle for want of trade; some mines used to work constantly…

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Russia Contemplates Mine War

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 12 April 1951 · page 1

LONDON: Viscount Hall, First Lord of the Admiralty, described In the House of Lords last night Russian preparations for a great…

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New Executive Council, the Gold Coast

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 12 April 1951 · page 2

The new Executive Council of the Gold Coast recently met for the first time of Government House, Accra, under the Presidency of the Governor of the Gold Coast. His Excellency Sir Charles Arden Clarke, K.C.M.C…

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Three Mines Idle

Maitland Mercury · Friday 13 April 1951 · page 3

CESSNOCK: The idle mines on the South Maitland coalfield todaw are Aberdare Extended, Richmond Main, and Millfield…

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The Need of Coal

Maitland Mercury · Friday 13 April 1951 · page 2

ANNOUNCEMENT that efforts would be made to extend the production of coal from open cut mines to a possible five million tons a year (from its present one million tons) indicates the anxiety of the…

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Leg Injured by Coal Fall

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 13 April 1951 · page 5

Struck by falling coal while at work at Aberdare colliery yesterday, Chris Grieves, 52, miner of Vincent-street,…

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To-day’s Leader: The Need Of Coal MacARTHUR Might Fly Back to United States Next Week ‘Congress Should Have Full Facts On Policy’

Maitland Mercury · Friday 13 April 1951 · page 1

WASHINGTON: There was a “possibility” that General MacArthur would fly back to the United States next week. Representative Joseph Martin, Republican Leader in the House of Representatives, said yesterday. He added that original plant provided for General MacArthur to return by ship…

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Coal Output

Singleton Argus · Monday 16 April 1951 · page 2

New South Wales coal production to March 24 was 398,088 tons below production for the first quarter of last year…

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No Mines Idle

Maitland Mercury · Monday 16 April 1951 · page 3

CESSNOCK : The South Maitland coalfield is quite free from industrial trouble today, and all of the mines are working…

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Mines Worked Well

Maitland Mercury · Monday 16 April 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY: Only three mines are idle in New South wales today. The 149 mines working are…

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Hip injured In Mine

Maitland Mercury · Monday 16 April 1951 · page 3

CESSNOCK: Edward Jones, 18, of Greta-street, Aberdare, a wheeler employed at Maitland Main Colliery, had his right hip…

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Miners Pledge To Fight

Maitland Mercury · Monday 16 April 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY : Officials of the Miners’ Federation, the AEU and the FEDFA, today decided to “Fight as one body for the…

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2500 Tons Coal Loss

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 17 April 1951 · page 3

CESSNOCK: Production is down on the South Maitland coalfield to-day by 2500 tons. The idle mines are Aberdare and…

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Mine Worker’s Lucky Escape

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 18 April 1951 · page 4

NEWCASTLE: Horace [?]schafer, 86, a mine worker at Myall Extended colliery, Candid, was whirled many times by the…

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Radecki Funeral Miners Guard of Honour

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 18 April 1951 · page 1

A guard of honour of 70 miners lined the approach to Singleton Methodist Church on…

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Floods Close N.z. Mine

Maitland Mercury · Monday 23 April 1951 · page 1

WELLINGTON (AAP-Reuter): The largest anthracite mine in New Zealand has been wiped out b y recent South Island floods…

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One Mine Idle

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 24 April 1951 · page 1

CESSNOCK: The only [?] idle at South Maitland to-day in [?] (600 tons) where a safety issue is alleged to be…

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Two Hurt in Coal Fall

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 24 April 1951 · page 3

When two mates were caught in a fall of coal at Bellbird colliery yesterday morning they suffered multiple abrasions,…

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