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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines
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Although some of the small unassociated mines began work a week ago, after the Christmas vacation, there was not a general resumption of the big collieries…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Abram Young, 50, of Crawford Estate, Millfield, received a probable fracture of the right ankle when he slipped at Stanford Main No. 2 colliery yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Elrington Colliery resumed work to-day, The resumption was in accordance with the decision of a meeting of the lodge last night. It was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Robert Gracey, 57, a miner, living in Cessnock-street, Cessnock, collapsed while working in Aberdare Central colliery yesterday. He was taken to the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The three Kurri collieries—Pelaw Main. Richmond Main and Stanford Main No. 1. were again working to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Bellbird Colliery was Idle to-day. Trouble developed yesterday, when men received payment for only three-quarters of a shift for the last…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →George Wilson, 43, of Hall-street, Weston, was struck by a fall of coal while working in Hebburn No. 1 colliery yesterday. He was admitted to the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Mr. S. Hunter was elected to-day as the representative of the Newcastle branch of the Miners' Federation on the Heffron A.L.P. Executive for 1939…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Eighty-year-old Jack Oswald's obsession that he would "strike it rich" at Mt. Robinson, eight miles from here, has probably been his undoing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A comparison between strikers who deprive coal owners of profits and shoplifters who deprive other people of goods was suggested by Judge Drake-Brockman in the Commonwealth Arbitration Court to-day during the hearing of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Gold production throughout Australia for the 12 months ended December 31, 1938, promises to eclipse the 1917 production of 1,456,000 fine ounces. Already the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Gold Rod, one of the Challenge Stakes topweights, who was scratched from the Carrington Stakes, ran the fastest…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"The oil from coal question is not political. It is of urgent national importance, and should not be made a catch cry for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The present position in the coal industry could not go on indefinitely, said Judge Drake-Brockman in the Federal Arbitration Court…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Arising out of a dispute over wages, Bellbird colliery was idle yesterday. The men returned home as a protest against the payment of day-wage men for…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →After holding pit-top meetings to-day, all South Coast miners, except those at South Bulli, declared a one-day strike…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Due to heating, an area has been sealed off in Glen Main mine, a small unassociated colliery at East Greta. On Monday excessive heating developed in the north…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wallarah miners to-day held a one-day strike as a protest against remarks attributed to Judge Drake-Brockman in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A start has been made with the work of reopening Werris Creek colliery, which was sealed on November 22, following excessive heating in the old workings…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →On Saturday, September 1, 1923, the whole of the Maitland Coalfields district was plunged into gloom by the disaster at Bellbird colliery, three miles from…
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