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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1906

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Railway Freights. Report of the Commissioners

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 August 1906 · page 15

The report of tho Railway Commissioners in connection with the representations made by certain country municipalities for a reduction in the rates and fares charged on the New South Willed railways…

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Tramway Grievances Board of Inquiry

Singleton Argus · Saturday 25 August 1906 · page 5

The Tramway Inquiry Board sat on Wednesday and Thursday. In cross-examination, A. C. Warton, general secretary of the Tramway…

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Railway Fatality

Singleton Argus · Saturday 25 August 1906 · page 6

Mr John M'Hugh, an hotelkeeper at Uralla, was killed at the Armidale Railway Station on Thursday morning. He missed the mail train on…

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The Belmore Road

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 27 August 1906 · page 4

The Minister of Works has acknowledged, through Mr. J. Gillies, M.P., receipt of a communication presented by him from the Lorn. Progress Association, regarding the…

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Motor Accidents

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 27 August 1906 · page 6

The motor bus panic is spreading. Motor car accidents are on the increase. One of the Harmsworth Brothers is lying at the point of death, near Hatfield, through…

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Bridge at Dight's Grossing. Public Meeting

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 28 August 1906 · page 4

A [?]presentative meeting of gentlemen from various portions of the distract was held in the [?]all of the Mechanics Institute on Saturday…

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North Coast Railway. Collecting Statistics

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 28 August 1906 · page 3

A message from Gloucester says:—An inspection has just been completed by Mr. Usher, of the Railway Department, and Mr. Powell, stock inspector of Maitland, of the…

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The Tramway Inquiry

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 28 August 1906 · page 3

The Tramway Hoard of Inquiry resumed the taking of evidence this morning. Evidence was given by female relatives of several drivers who Hud died, death in each case…

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Motor Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 28 August 1906 · page 3

[?]ke of Oporto was nearly killed in a accident near Cascaes…

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Railway Accident. Boy's Ann Crushed to a Pulp

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 28 August 1906 · page 2

Charles Ralph, 12 years of age, employed as a paper-runner, was touching the [?]andles of the doors of a train as the carriages passed him,…

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Illegal Railway Rebates

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 29 August 1906 · page 5

Grand Jury of chicago has returned document against the Standard Oil any in connection with the garwnting to iligal railway rebates…

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Bishop's Bridge

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 1 September 1906 · page 12

The regular monthly meeting of the Bishop's Bridge and Sawyer's Gully Progress Committee was held at Mrs. O'Brien's on Monday evening last. The president (Mr. G…

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Bridge at Dight's Crossing. Public Meeting 'At Singleton. Stngleton

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 September 1906 · page 7

'A' public meeting was held this afternoon at the Mechanics Institute in connection with the agitation for the construction of a bridge, in the Vicinity of Dight's Crossing…

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Fight on the Line. Fierce Struggle in Front of Approaching Train

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 1 September 1906 · page 4

A midnight fight on the railway between a guardsman and a policeman, in front of an advancing train, was described at South-west London. The…

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Our Sydney Letter. the Railway Bill

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 1 September 1906 · page 1

In the Council the Railway Bill is getting a very unfriendly reception. "Gross breach of contract," is one of the mildest terms applied to it. The…

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Alfred Biet's Will. Big Public Bequests. A South African Railway Fund

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 1 September 1906 · page 8

THE will of the late Mr. Alfred Beit, the South African millionaire, which is dated April 18th, 1905, recorded the fact that he was a naturalised British subject, living in England,…

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Tramway Inquiry

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 1 September 1906 · page 4

The case for the Tramway Employees' Union was practically closed before tho inquiry Board yesterday. Mr. Booby stated that he would require, should the case for…

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North Coast Railway. Collecting Statistics

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 September 1906 · page 12

'A message from Gloucester says :-An inspection has just been completed by Mr,Usher, of the Railway Department, and Mr.-Powell, stock inspector of Maitland, of the…

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Motor Accidents

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 September 1906 · page 16

The motor bus panic is spreading. Motor car accidents are on the increase. One of i the Harmsworth Brothers is lying at the point of death, near Maitland, through…

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Proposed Maitland Tramway

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Saturday 1 September 1906 · page 2

What appears to concern the Maitland people at the present time is a through tram to the mining towns, from Maitland…

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