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MAITLAND COAL STRIKES. EFFECT ON EXPORT TRADE. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyrig it. SYDNEY, June 12. Mr M'Donald, chairman of the Northern Coal Proprietors’ Association, states that in 1925 there were 190 separate strikes in the Maitland district, while to the end of May this year there had been 205. Ho quoted figures to show that the trade from Newcastle was gradually dwindling away, and said that tho exports to the west coast of America had fallen from 1,500,0u0 tons in 1912 to 500,000 tons. COMPENSATION EOR JOCKEY’S WIDOW. SYDNEY. June 12. A District Court judge, in awarding compensation to the widow of a jockey killed while riding at Rankwick, ruled that a jockey is a workman within tno meaning of the Employers’ Liability Act.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19197, 13 June 1924, Page 7
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