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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1931

2,504 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 126

Lithgow Coal Trade

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 19 January 1931 · page 6

It is reported from Lithgow that the Lithgow Valley and Hermitage collieries staffs are to be reduced to a minimum, and 150 men and boys have received 14…

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Resumed To-day Aberdare Extended Mine

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 19 January 1931 · page 6

After being idle the whole of last week, following a dispute over the condition of the miners' bath water, Aberdare Extended colliery resumed…

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Terms Accepted Welsh Miners to Resume LONDON, January 17

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 19 January 1931 · page 7

The South Wales Miners' Federation, in conference at Cardiff decided, by 169 votes to 72 to accept the owners' terms for resuming work on Monday…

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175,000 Members in Merger of A.W.U. and Miners Draft Constitution Being Drawn Up Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 19 January 1931 · page 1

Committees of the A.W.U. and the Miners' Federation entered to-day on the final stage of preparing a draft constitution for the amalgamation of…

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Lucknow Colliery Supply of Electricity

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 January 1931 · page 5

At the meeting of the City Council last night, a report was received from the Electric Light and Power Committee dealing with the application for a supply of…

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Work at Mines

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 20 January 1931 · page 6

Pelaw Main and Hebburn No. 2 Collieries were idle to-day owing to slackness of trade, while Richmond Main. Hebburn No. 1 and Stanford…

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Coalfield Merger Miners' Lodges Unite

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 January 1931 · page 6

Representatives of miners' lodges interested in the merging of the interests of Messrs. J. and A. Brown and the Abermain-Seaham Coal Company, met it Kurri…

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Miners-a.w.u. Amalgamation Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 January 1931 · page 6

The final phas of preparing the draft for the amalgamation of the Australian Workers' Union and the Miners' Federation was entered upon to-day by the…

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Miners' Secretary Loses Leg Years Old Accident London

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 20 January 1931 · page 7

As the outcome of an accident which to met in a mine during his youth, Mr. Arthur J. Cook, general secretary…

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Big Coal Contract Sydney Council Stocks SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 20 January 1931 · page 5

with reserve stocks of coal rapidly being reduced to a dangerously low level, it is expected that the City Council will, at a…

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Coalmines Act Alleged Contravention Protection From Coal Dust

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 January 1931 · page 6

Before Mr. G. A. Stevenson, S.M., in the Summons Division of the Newcastle Police Court yesterday, Colliery Inspector G H. D. ''Thompson proceeded against…

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Case Dismissed Mining Breach Alleged Winding Gear Elrington's Modern Appliance

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 20 January 1931 · page 6

An illustration of bow modern electrical mining machinery has made obsolete the Coal Mines' Regulations Act provisions in regard to winding gear, was given at Cessnock Court to-day. The manager of Elrington Colliery, George Mason Hindmarsh,…

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Federal Constitution for India Forecast Too Greedy by Half Another Gold Maker Swindle Duped General Munich

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 20 January 1931 · page 7

If Tousend, who started life as a plumber and amassed a fortune by dubious methods had been…

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A.W.U. Will Be New Title of Union Merger Mining Branch to Be Unchanged Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 20 January 1931 · page 5

In the new constitution drafted for the A.W.U. and Miners' Federation Amalgamation by committees representing both organisations, It is…

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Mines Resume

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 21 January 1931 · page 5

Pelaw Main and Hebburn No. 2 collieries, which have been Idle since Friday, owing to slackness of trade, resumed work to-day. Hebburn No…

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Collieries Merger New Company Registered SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 January 1931 · page 6

J. and A. Brown and Abermain-Seaham Collieries, Ltd., was registered to-day, with a nominal capital of £4,000,000 in £1 shares…

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The Coal Industry

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 January 1931 · page 11

Sir,—In the issue of the "Newcastle Morning Herald," of January 10, I read about Mr. W. Humble having been associated for 65 years with coalmining in…

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Elrington Colliery Accident to the Cage

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 January 1931 · page 8

The electric winding engine at Elrington Colliery, which was the subject of a test case at the Cessnock Police Court yesterday, gained further notice yesterday…

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Cessnock Police Court Elrington Colliery Case

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 January 1931 · page 9

Mr. D. W. Reed, P.M., had before him yesterday, at the Cessnock Police Court, a case in which George Hindmarsh, Manager of Elrington Colliery,…

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Miner Injured Fall of Coal

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 21 January 1931 · page 5

Struck by a fall of coal in the Wallarah Colliery this afternoon, William Thomas O'Niel (64), a miner, living at Catherine Hill Bay, suffered extensive…

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