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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport
24 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 2
Come issue the tickets, and open the wickets; To see the folks crowding is funny—quite funny; By pushing and shoving just-keep the mass moving, For all that we want is their money—their money…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WHEN and how is the road grant for the current year made by the Council to be expended? The year is wearing on, the roads are daily getting more out…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →His Excellency the Governor General, with the advice of the Executive Council, having deemed it expedient to open and make a parish road (to be maintained at the expense of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WHILE the Council was last in session we mentioned that there were then before it two bills to enable certain parties to construct bridges on the public…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Considerable excitement, all of a sudden, (as impulses of every kind always arise in Australia instanter) has been discernible, both outside and inside the Legislative Council, touching the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The project for a central railway terminus in the city of London, mooted by Mr. Charles Pearson in 1837, and revived unsuccessfully in 1845, is now again presented by its author to the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →WE can as yet hear of no steps having been actually taken to obtain from the government the money appropriated by the Legislative Council for the repair…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IT will be remembered that during the last session two measures for the establishment of road trusts were introduced into Council. One of these was a bill…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR—The wooden bridge over Wallis's Creek, between East and West Maitland, is now nearly completed; the best material has been used in its construction; on the whole a very creditable…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →On Wednesday a public meeting, convened by the Warden, at the request of the Maitland District Council, was held at the Rose Inn, West Maitland, to consider the present state of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR—Much was said of the roads being out of repair—it may be asked, when were they ever in repair? Roads were never made. Trees were cleared out of the way, and a line 100 feet wide…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →On Monday the 21st June, the new wooden suspension bridge over Wallis's Creek was formally opened for traffic. It had been previously arranged, in order to mark the public…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →His Excellency the Governor-General, with the advice of the Executive Council, having deemed it expedient to open and make a parish road (to be maintained at the expense of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →AT the time the road grant made last session was appropriated to the various roads of the colony, we pointed out that no provision had been made for one of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR—If you wish to witness scientific roadmaking, which entirely throws the late Mr. M'Adam in the shade, I beg you will visit the men at work (under whose direction I know not)…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. HOLDEN presented a petition from certain persons, shareholders in the Nepean Bridge Company, praying for leave to bring in a Bill for the limitation of their responsibility…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On Monday several persons interested in the repair of the roads met together at the Courthouse, a requisition having been sent to the Warden to convene a meeting for the purpose…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The select committee of the Legislative Council, appointed on the 11th June, 1852, "to consider and report upon the best means of facilitating internal communication throughout…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SIR—The preparation of road mans for the Post Office, as required by your letter No. 51-619, has led to my obtaining some statistical information about the roads, which, as it may…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A SHORT pamphlet has just been issu[?]d by Mr. Edward Orpen Moriarty, A.B., civil engineer, with "A few Practical Hints upon Roads, and Road Systems."…
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