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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1952

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Krupp’s Coal And Steel Industries

Maitland Mercury · Monday 20 October 1952 · page 1

BONN: Industrial magnate Alfreid Krupp, is unofficially estimated to be left about £50,000,000 stg. after Allied…

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Glendon Mine May Close

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 21 October 1952 · page 3

SINGLETON: The Glendon Brook mine may close. It was announced to-day by a director of Great Greta…

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Miners Complain Of Water Supply

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 21 October 1952 · page 1

CESSNOCK: Bellbird colliery was Idle t--day following a complaint by the men that the reticulation of…

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Expects Miners to Take Action

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 21 October 1952 · page 1

NEWCASTLE: Mr. J. Comerford vice-president of the Northern Miners’ Federation branch, said to-day he could…

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Miners’ Long-service Leave Brought Forward

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 22 October 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY: The Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. Gallagher) to-day advanced long-service leave for coal mining industry employees from January 1, 1954, to January 1, 1953…

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Britain’s Gold And Dollar Reserves

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 22 October 1952 · page 6

The British press has expressed satisfaction at the Treasury figures published recently showing that the drain…

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Fuel Oil From Coal

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 23 October 1952 · page 2

CANBERRA: The Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) said in the House of Representatives that the Commonwealth…

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Coal Board Offer For Road Repairs

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 23 October 1952 · page 4

Lower Hunter Shire Council will accept a Joint Coal Board offer of a contribution of half the cost of repairing a section…

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Mining Development On Singleton Field

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 23 October 1952 · page 6

SINGLETON: The chairman or directors of the N.S.W. Mining Co. (Mr. Welsh) said that coal from the Singleton…

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Accident at No. 2 Colliery

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 24 October 1952 · page 3

Robert Ragen, of Sowerby Street, suffered a fractured pelvis yesterday, when he was thrown from a skip at St. Heller's…

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State Coal Production

Maitland Mercury · Friday 24 October 1952 · page 1

New South Wales coal production from all sources so far this year has exceeded production for the same…

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Shortage Of Coal Waggons

Maitland Mercury · Friday 24 October 1952 · page 5

CESSNOCK: There is a production loss on the South Maitland field today of 2600 tons, due largely to the…

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Miners' Lung Service Leave From January 1

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 24 October 1952 · page 7

An order [?] service leave for [?] open[?] January [?] instead of January 1, 19[?]…

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Free Treatment of Mine Pensioners Beard Knows Nothing Definite

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 24 October 1952 · page 1

Nothing definite had been heard about the treatment of Retired Mine worker Pensioners in…

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Death of Young Cyclist Accidental Struck Rear of Coal Lorry

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 24 October 1952 · page 7

A verdict of accidental death was returned by the Cessnock District Coron[?] (Mr. W. A. Fraser) [?]…

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Waggon Shortage At Collieries

Maitland Mercury · Monday 27 October 1952 · page 3

CESSNOCK: There is a loss in production on the South Maitland field to-day of 4000 tons…

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Miners' Federation Ballot

Maitland Mercury · Monday 27 October 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY: Federal and State Labour members of Parliament would address miners in New South Wales…

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Brown Coal Deposit

Maitland Mercury · Monday 27 October 1952 · page 6

MELBOURNE: Drilling had already located 18,000 million tons of brown coal in the Latrobe Valley, of which almost…

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Coal Company Reduces Price

Singleton Argus · Monday 27 October 1952 · page 1

The N.S.W. Mining Co. will reduce the price of open-cut coal by an average of 8/- a ton. The Minister for National Development (Senator Spooner) announced this in Canberra…

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Open-Cut Coal To Be Cheaper

Maitland Mercury · Monday 27 October 1952 · page 6

CANBERRA: The Minister for National Development (Senator W. H. Spooner) said to-day that the Price of…

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