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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1944

1,854 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 46 of 93

Mines in Danube Block Traffic

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 3 July 1944 · page 1

LONDON, July 2. A.A.P.—One of the shrewdest Allied moves to disrupt enemy communications in the Balkans is the dropping of mines…

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"Miners Do Not Hesitate with Mates in Peril" Mr. Forde and Mr. Collindridge Put Case for More Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 3 July 1944 · page 3

The Deputy Prime Minister (Mr. Forde) and Mr. Collindridge, of the Empire Parliamentary Delegation, received a splendid hearing from miners when they addressed meetings at Kurri Kurri and Cessnock yesterday…

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Miners' Board Demands Fines Be Paid

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 3 July 1944 · page 3

The Northern Miners' Board of Management today served notice on a number of lodges that they must collect unpaid…

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Chief Mines Inspector To Visit Cessnock

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 3 July 1944 · page 2

The Chief Inspector of Mines in NSW (Mr. P. W. Hay) will visit Cessnock No. l Colliery on July 11…

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Gold Watch for M.p

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 3 July 1944 · page 4

The General President of the Miners' Federation (Mr. Wells), at right presenting a gold watch to Mr. F. Collindridge. British M.P. for Barnsley, at Kurri on Saturday night. Mr. Collindridge, member of the British Parliamentary Delegation to…

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Coal: What Does The Future Hold?

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 3 July 1944 · page 2

THE concurrence of the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr. Forde) in the claim of the Northern Miners' Federation…

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Forde Promises New Deal for Mine Workers

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 3 July 1944 · page 2

The Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Farde) on the Coalfields yesterday promised miners that they would have a new deal. His tour of the western, south-…

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U.S. Mine Turned Into Ice-box

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 3 July 1944 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Sunday.—A 75-year-old limestone mine near Atchison, Kansas, will be turned into a huge underground Icebox for the…

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Industrial News Three Mines Expected to Resume

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 3 July 1944 · page 5

Three mines idle on the Northern field on Friday—Aberdare, Aberdare Extended and Bloomfield Main —are expected to resume to-day…

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Debate Coal and Food Opposition Move Likely

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 3 July 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sunday.—The Opposition will probably move the adjournment of the House of Representatives to discuss national problems…

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Mine Pensioners Object to Tax

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 July 1944 · page 3

Mr. Booth, M.L.A., addressed representatives from the Retired Mineworkers' Pensioners' Association at Warner's Bay yesterday to discuss…

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County Council Has Week's Coal

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 4 July 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY.—Less than a week's supply of coal is now in the hands of the Sydney County Council. At today's meeting of the…

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See Minister About Coal Road

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 July 1944 · page 2

The Minister for Works (Mr. Cahill) will meet a Newcastle deputation in Sydney on Monday, July 10, to discuss the…

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Miners Must Pay Fines For Discipline Breaches

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 July 1944 · page 3

The Miners' Northern Board of Management decided yesterday to instruct lodges that members must pay fines imposed for breaches of…

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Miners' Claim Challenged Enginedrivers' Stand on Open-cut Men

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 July 1944 · page 2

Insistence by the Northern Miners' Board of Management that men engaged on any form of open-cut mining must be members of the…

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Stockton Borehole Miners Accept Discipline

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 5 July 1944 · page 3

Stockton Borehole miners who yesterday resisted Federation discipline today acknowledged it. They went to work after unprecedented happenings on the pit top. Most important of these was the intervention…

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"Not Paid for 290 TONS" Neath Miners Allege Faulty Weighing

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 5 July 1944 · page 2

Neath miners' lodge claims that miners in the north tunnel have lost payment for 290 tons of coal in about 15 months because of errors in…

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Government Sues Coal Company

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 6 July 1944 · page 4

BRISBANE, Wednesday.—A Supreme Court writ alleging fraud and frauduient misrepresentation was issued by the Crown against Rylance…

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Tax Officers to Meet Miners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 6 July 1944 · page 4

The District Secretary of the Miners' Federation (Mr. J. B. Simpson) said he had completed arrangements for officers of the Taxation…

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Mines Closed Kiel Canal Before Invasion

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 6 July 1944 · page 1

LONDON, Tuesday. — It is now disclosed that a month before Invasion Day, Mosquitoes, led 'by Wing-Commander S. D…

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