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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1938

2,483 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 125

Opened Well London Stock Markets Gold Shares Rise (Australian Associated Press.) LONDON, January 8

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 10 January 1938 · page 8

Even pessimists admit that the stock markets have opened the New Year well. Unemployment returns have curbed the optimists, but the city took them well…

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Pelaw Main Colliery Idle

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 11 January 1938 · page 13

Pelaw Main Colliery, which was idle yesterday owing to a dispute with the wheelers, was again idle to-day owing to the same cause. It is expected that…

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Miners' Board in Session

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 11 January 1938 · page 7

Developments at Whitburn colliery, which has reopened after a long period of idleness, and reports of non-union produced timber being supplied to…

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Coal Reseach in England

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 11 January 1938 · page 3

We in this country could be proud in the knowledge that we had possibly, and very probably done more research on coal itself than had any other country. What…

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Yesterday's Accidents Four Miners Injured

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 11 January 1938 · page 9

Struck by a prop while at work as a shiftman at Aberdare Extended colliery yesterday, Arthur Perry 61, of Gordon avenue, Cessnock, received an injury to his…

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Two Mines Idle at Cessnock Disputes at Aberdare

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 11 January 1938 · page 8

Aberdare miners were idle to-day. The men went to the pit-head this morning but a dispute arose over clippers' conditions…

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Record Gold Production

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 12 January 1938 · page 10

Johannesburg, January 10.—The gold production of the Transvaal last year totalled 11,740,891 ounces, which is more than 180 ounces in excess of the…

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Coal Cargo for Java

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 12 January 1938 · page 5

The Java-China-Japan Line steamer Tjikembang, which visited Newcastle for the first time late last year, entered port again this morning from…

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Reply to Owners Miners' Federation and Tasmanian Strike SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 12 January 1938 · page 4

The General Secretary of the Miners Federation (Mr. W. Orr) said to-night that the Tasmanian coalowners had been, given every opportunity to consider the…

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Mine Workings Discovery at Tighe's Hill Foundation Problem for Bridge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 12 January 1938 · page 8

The contractors Who have been driving piles for the bridge across Throsby Creek at Tighe's Hill have discovered old, uncharted mine workings. When the first…

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Industrial News WHITBURN Decision of Miners' Committee Support for Timbermen

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 12 January 1938 · page 4

A special meeting of the Northern Miners' Committee of Management, held at the Newcastle Trades Hall yesterday, reviewed the position at Whitburn,…

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Kurri Mines Working

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 13 January 1938 · page 13

The three Kurri collieries. Pelaw Main, Richmond Main and Stanford Main No. 1 were again working today…

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Mine Workings

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 January 1938 · page 11

Sir.—Under the above heading in Wednesday's "Newcastle Morning Heraled," you note a discovery at Tighe's Hill, and mention is made of the fact that little or…

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Mine Ventilation

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 January 1938 · page 4

Ventilation must always be a question of major importance in a fiery coalfield, and it continues to engage anxious attention (says the "Colliery Guardian")…

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Coal for Java

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 January 1938 · page 12

The Java-China-Japan Line steamer Tjikembang began loading coal for Java yesterday morning. The vessel, which visited Newcastle for the first time late…

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Coal Soap for Germans

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 14 January 1938 · page 8

Soap made entirely from coal was recently put on the German market—a Christmas "present" to the people from the chemical industry…

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Miners' Strike in Tasmania Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 14 January 1938 · page 1

Now that the major issue of wage increases has been concluded in New South Wales and Queensland, the Miners' Federation intends to…

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Displaced Miners Conditions at Catherine Hill Bay Mr. Booth Urges Help

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 January 1938 · page 15

Mr. G. Booth, M.L.A., stated yesterday that he had made representations to the, Minister for Local Government (Mr. E. S. Spooner), on behalf of the…

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Love on the Gold Trail New 12-day Serial Of Adventure

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 14 January 1938 · page 8

LOVE and adventure in the Canadian northlands, with accompaniments of the fever of the search for gold, the crack of the…

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Guerilla War Is Raging in Shansi Areas Woman Leader Chinese Miners Put Up an Epic Fight London

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 14 January 1938 · page 8

"All Shansi is uniting against the Japanese," declares the American authoress, Miss Agnes Smedley, who has arrived at Hankow with the vivid account of Chinese guerrilla warfare…

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