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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1940

2,068 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 72 of 104

Bellambi Coal Company's Profit £6301

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 August 1940 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—After providing for all charges, including taxation, Bellambi Coal Company made a net profit of £6301 for the year ended June 30…

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Coal Search Authorised at Tarro

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 14 August 1940 · page 2

John Roger Stevenson, of Brown-street, Cessnock, was granted authority to enter and search for coal and shale on an area of 414 acres at Tarro…

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Miners' Pensions Inquiry Resumes To-day

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 August 1940 · page 6

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Only three miners' lodges in the Northern district have not returned the questionnaires sent out by the Miners' Federation seeking…

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Price of Gold at Mint

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 August 1940 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Commonwealth Bank to-day fixed the price of gold lodged at the Mint on Saturday and yesterday at £10/12/6 per ounce fine. Sovereigns are…

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Mechanisation of Mines on South Coast Wollongong

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 14 August 1940 · page 4

The Southern Miners' Delegate Board is meeting to-day to consider the working of mechanical units in a large number of collieries on the…

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Coal Company's Ninth Year Without Profit Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 14 August 1940 · page 3

Hetton Bellbird Collieries Ltd. incurred a loss of £5207 in the year ended June 30 last without allowance having been made for depreciation…

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Miners' Council

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 August 1940 · page 9

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—After hearing a report on the "Daily News" by the General President (Mr. C. Nelson), the Council of the Miners' Federation carried…

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Mine Stopped and Bang Went £500

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 15 August 1940 · page 4

Breaking its record of continuous production since the strike, Burwood mine was idle to-day, due to a dispute in which the men claimed that…

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Small Mines Union Registration in Order

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 August 1940 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Full Bench of the Industrial Commission to-day gave one of the shortest judgments on record when it dismissed the appeals of the…

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Industrial News Coalcliff Miners May Cease Work

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 August 1940 · page 9

WOLLONGONG, Wednesday.—The Delegate Board of the Southern District of the Miners' Federation to-day carried a resolution granting the Coalcliff…

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Northern Miners Aloof From A.l.p. Conference

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 15 August 1940 · page 2

The Northern Miners' Federation will not credential delegates for the re-assembly of the Easter Conference on Saturday. which has been branded…

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Hetton Coal Co. Has Loss of £5207

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 August 1940 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—For the ninth year in succession, Hetton Bellbird Collieries Ltd. operated at a loss. That for the year ended June 30 was £5207…

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Theft Of Coal

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 16 August 1940 · page 2

Thomas Clarence Jones, 47, laborer, was fined £3 on a charge of having at Mayfield on August 15 stolen half a hundredweight of coal, valued at…

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Gold Price £10/12/6

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 August 1940 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Commonwealth Bank to-day fixed the price of gold lodged at the Mint yesterday at £10/12/6 an ounce fine Sovereigns are £2/8/11 each…

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Idle Day Cost Miners £500 Holiday Pay

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 August 1940 · page 8

A day's idleness at Burwood mine yesterday cost the men about £500 in holiday pay under the penalty clause relating to forfeitures. The stoppage broke the…

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Died in Mine

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 August 1940 · page 9

Finding that William Ernest Bookless, 40, of Brown-street, West Wallsend, had collapsed shortly after filling skips in Seaham No. 2 mine on July 29, the Coroner (Mr. A…

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Price of Gold at Mint

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 August 1940 · page 5

SYDNEY, Friday.—The Commonwealth Bank to-day fixed the price of gold lodged at the Mint yesterday at £10/12/6 per ounce fine. Sovereigns are £2/8/11 each…

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British Mine New Areas Nazi Blockade Boast

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 19 August 1940 · page 6

LONDON, August 18.—Certain areas of the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay are now dangerous to shipping, the British Admiralty announces…

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Industrial News Northern Miners' Board to Meet Soon

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 19 August 1940 · page 6

The date of the sitting of the Northern Board of Management of the Miners' Federation to follow the meeting of the Central Council has not yet been fixed…

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Northern Mine Disputes

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 20 August 1940 · page 2

A report on a conference at Richmond Main yesterday on disputes concerning labor for mechanised units and other matters, will be submitted…

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