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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1938

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Stories of Famous Sayings "Thy Need Is Greater Than Mine"

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 19 March 1938 · page 4

SIR PHILIP SIDNEY was one of the many brilliant young Englishmen that the Elizabethan era produced, and posterity would probably have heard more of…

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Sydney County Council Coal Contracts More From the West New Transport Proposal Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 19 March 1938 · page 5

The Sydney County council's plans to purchase its own railway trucks and to construct a jetty at Bunnerong are likely to…

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Neath Colliery to Resume

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 21 March 1938 · page 11

Neath colliery, idle last week because of a dispute which arose out of a question of promotion on the coal, will resume this morning…

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Neath Miners Resume

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 21 March 1938 · page 5

The Neath miners resumed work to-day. They were idle all last week because of a dispute over the filling of a casual vacancy on the coal…

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Miners' Grievances British Official's View

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 21 March 1938 · page 10

The Secretary of the Wireworkers' Federation of Great Britain (Mr. Ebby Edwards) writes in the "Colliery Guerdian" as follows—…

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Offer of Increase Tasmanian Miners Accept LAUNCESTON

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 21 March 1938 · page 11

A large gathering of coalminers at a mass meeting in the Cornwall Hall yesterday morning decided unanimously to accept the tentative offer of the companies…

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Crushed to Death W.A. Mine Tragedy KALGOORLIE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 21 March 1938 · page 7

Crushed under 13 tons of rock while baring 250 feet underground. James Withnell was killed and George Arthur Moore was shockingly injured at a mine…

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Long Wall Plan for Aberdare Mines Department Calls Conference

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 21 March 1938 · page 5

The proposal to introduce a changed method of mining at Aberdare Colliery, will be the subject of a conference at the Coalfields…

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Coal Tenders Sydney Country Council More From Western Field Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 21 March 1938 · page 6

The Sydney County Council on Tuesday, it is understood, will accept tenders aggregating £194,120 for 422,200 tons of coal for the year…

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The Theatres "Navy Blue and Gold" Interesting Film at Royal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 21 March 1938 · page 4

There have been so many films about Annapolis that picturegoers are apt to dismiss casually a further picture as…

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Romance and Football "Navy Blue and Gold" at Theatre Royal

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 21 March 1938 · page 7

"Navy Blue and Gold," at the Theatre Royal, presents an entertaining picture of the varying fortunes of three trainees at the Annapolis…

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Kurri Mines Working

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 22 March 1938 · page 7

The three Kurri collieries, Pelaw Main, Richmond Main and Stanford Main No. 1, were working to-day…

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Northern Miners Statement by Mr. Hoare

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 March 1938 · page 9

The President of the Northern branch of the Miners' Federation (Mr. T. Hoare) said yesterday that, accompanied by the General President (Mr. [?] Nelson), he…

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Safety Hats in Mines Questions Asked at Inquest

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 22 March 1938 · page 7

Whether the wearing of a miner's safety hat would have saved the life of William George Robertson, 23, a shiftman, of High-street, Belmont, who…

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No Warning of Crash Inquest Into Death In Mine

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 22 March 1938 · page 9

A slab of stone, estimated by one man to weigh a ton, fell without warning from the roof of Stockton Borehole Colliery on…

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Coal Supplies for Bunnerong Railway Department to Carry Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 22 March 1938 · page 7

Sydney County Council to-day agreed to enter into an agreement with the Railway Department for the carriage by rail of all coal re[?]ired at…

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Smashing Advance Japanese Troops Take Hanchwang Grip on Coal Output London, March 20

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 March 1938 · page 7

Japanese troops are smashing their way down the Tainpu railway, and have reached the southern border of Shantung, where they have captured Hanchwang, 20 miles…

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Bellbird Colliery Resumes

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 23 March 1938 · page 8

Bellbird Colliery resumed operations to-day. The mine was idle for almost a fortnight as a result of a deadlock in the dispute over wheelers'…

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Coal in Manchukuo

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 23 March 1938 · page 4

It is reported from Hsinking that an expedition dispatched by the Manchuknon Coal Mining Company has confirmed the reports that more than 50,000,000 tons…

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Mining Mechanics

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 23 March 1938 · page 15

The General Secretary of the Federated Mining Mechanies' Association (Mr. H. C. Morton), with Messrs. A. Cowie and K. Collis, members of Wallarah lodge,…

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