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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1933

2,406 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 30 of 121

Miners and A.l.p

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 31 March 1933 · page 4

Sir,—Mr. Hoare stated to the Stockton Borehole Miners' Lodge on March 17 that if the Socialisation scheme is rejected—which Miners' delegates are instructed to…

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Improved Coal Output Figures for March

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 31 March 1933 · page 5

The output of coal in the northern district this month was substantially greater than, last month and than in March, 1932…

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Industrial News Northern Miners Committee Sittings End

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 31 March 1933 · page 11

The sittings of the Northern Miners Management Committee concluded yesterday. All the members, with the President of the district (Mr. T. Hoare),…

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In The Courts Fined For Stealing Coal

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 31 March 1933 · page 12

For having stolen 56 pounds of coal, valued at 1s, the property of the railways. Horace John Sevil (33). crane-driver, was fined £3. in default…

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MR. A. C. WILLIS Conference with Newcastle Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 31 March 1933 · page 8

Mr. A. C. Willis, M.L.C., formerly Agent-General for New South Wales, spent yesterday in Newcastle. He was present, by invitation of the…

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Shale Oilfields Conference at Lithgow Committee and Miners Lithgow

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 31 March 1933 · page 9

Following a visit to the Capertee Valley, representatives of the Shale Oil Committee, appointed by the Governments of the Commonwealth and New South…

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Kurri Warning to Others Fell from Coal Train

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 31 March 1933 · page 11

The District Coroner (Mr. A. Johns), in recording a verdict of accidental death in the case of John Drummond Logic, who died as a result of injuries sustained…

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Police Court Thursday, March 30 (Before Mr. E. J. Harrison, S.m.) Theft of Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 31 March 1933 · page 2

Pleading "Guilty" to the theft of lewt of coal, valued at 1/3, the property of the Railway Commissioner, on March 29, Thomas Roberts, 30, labourer, was fined…

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Gradual Development Of Greater Newcastle Urged By Fire Chief Angry with Committee Shortland Miners' Lodge Protest "Starve or Dole"

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 31 March 1933 · page 8

Vigorous protests against the Northern Miners' Committee of Management for not endorsing their appeal for…

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White Gold ((Published by Arrangement with Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, London and Melbourne.) CHAPTER IX.—(Continued.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 31 March 1933 · page 14

"Good!" said Ferrers, dropping a coin on the salver, and taking his way to a quiet corner of the verandah. There half-hidden by a palm, he examined the…

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Theft of Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 April 1933 · page 11

Charged with the theft of 56lb of coal, valued at 1/, at Carrington, on March 31, Horace John Sevil, 33, crane driver, was fined £3. in default imprisonment for six…

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Dudley Mine Check Inspector's Report

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 April 1933 · page 13

The District Cheek Inspector (Mr. Isaac Hoare), reporting on his inspection of Dudley mine, says— "I examined the mine and found the…

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COAL-TRIMMERS Ballot for Representative

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 April 1933 · page 4

The ballot for the election of a New South Wales representative on the Committee of Management of the Waterside Workers' Federation will be opened at…

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Charged with Stealing Colliery Horses' Fodder Case at Cessnock

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 1 April 1933 · page 6

When horses were taken underground at Aberdare Central Colliery last week it was noticed that they were hungry and weak. The attention of…

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Six Had High Average Northern Colliery Workings Fortnights Figures

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 1 April 1933 · page 3

One mine worked full time and five others missed only one day on the Northern Coalfields during the past fortnight…

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Industrial News Abermain Miners Conference in Newcastle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 April 1933 · page 4

The question of the introduction of electrical coal-cutting machines in Abermain No. 2 Colliery, one of the properties of the J. and A. Brown and…

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Gold and Minerals History of Production Reports From Fields

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 April 1933 · page 13

Ever since its first discovery, gold has had to run the gauntlet of a precarious and intermittent production. Every fall in its production has resulted in a loss of…

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Coal Export 196,956 Tons in March February Total Exceeded

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 April 1933 · page 6

The quantity of coal, including bunkers, shipped at Newcastle daring March for places beyond the State was 196,956 tons, of which 31,413 tons represented overseas…

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Coal Products Wallsend Experiments New Test Bench Mr. A. F. Lyon Addresses Engineers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 April 1933 · page 8

Mr. A. F. Lyon told the Newcastle branch of the Institution of Engineers of Australia last night that at Wallsend he and his brother were erecting a new test…

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White Gold ((Published by Arrangement with Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, London and Melbourne.) CHAPTER X.—(Continued[?])

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 April 1933 · page 12

No. 1 itself appeared livery enough, for within a gramophone was playing, and from an open window in the second storey there reached him a burst of feminine…

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