Road Work
The local Shire Council invites tenders for certain road work between Muswellbrook and Widden and Wybong and Brogheda…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1914
1,556 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 65 of 78
Railway Workers and Patriotic Fund
Mr Corfe, engineer in charge of the Muswellbrook-Merriwa railway, informs us that a short time ago the sum of £67 was forwarded to the Patriotic Fund in Sydney by…
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A young man, named H. Young, a railway official, who had been stationed in Muswellbrook for three months, died in Scone on Sunday, after a brief illnesr. While…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Galgong-burrow Railway. Opening Ceremony
Perfect weather and a record gathering attended the official opening of the Burrowa railway on Saturday. The Chief Secretary, Mr. Cann, severed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →British Motor Man. Paris
Five motor lorries belonging to a British ordnance corps were recently cut off. After blowing up their ammunition, the men in charge of the cars escaped. One, however,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Motorist's Mishap
While driving a party in his motor cur on Sunday afternoon, Mr. Allan Coffin was the victim of a peculiar and serious accident. It appears that as Mr. Coffin attempted to turn…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →An Aeroplane Chase. Paris, Aug. 26
The "Linerte" publishes the story or an inhabitant of Denain, who left the town as soon as the first Uhlans entered it early on Tuesday morning. He says: "It was towards…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Killed by a Train
Another railway fatality occurred on Tuesday, when Leslie Crawford (19) an employee at the Eveleigh Workshops, was killed at Macdonaldtown by the…
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The New South Wales motor ambulance goes to France on Friday to serve with the Australian Voluntary Hospital, and will be in charge of Mr. Hurley and Mr. Percy Hunter…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Letter to the Editor. the Northern Road
Sir,—Having read the report of a meeting recently held in Newcastle Council Chambers regard the Great Northern road, and feeling that the statements made were very…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Maitland Coalmines. Railway Extension
A notice of motion concerning the question of extension of the East Greta Company's railway from Stanford-Merthyr through Kurri to Weston has been tabled…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Railways of the States
How have the railways of the States been faring of late, and how will they be affected by the European war crisis? No statis…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Aeroplane Lost. London, Oct. 9
The Admiralty announces that Commander Spencer Gray, with lieutenants Slope and Marix, dropped bombs from a height of 600 feet on Dusseldorf, and a great let of gas…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Aeroplane Brought Down. London, Oct. 9
The Anglo-French fleet at Cattaro brought down an Austrian aeroplane with shells. The aeronaut Was drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Aeroplane Engine Competition. London, Oct. 16
The Green Engine Compnay, with a 100-horse power water-cooled engine, has won the £5000 naval and military aeroplane engine competition…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →How Liege Held the Road
How Liege held the road is stirringly told in the following jingle by a well-known American journalist, and published in a London paper:…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Proposed New Railway. Cessnock to Cockle Creek
Representatives of the Mulbring Railway League, and Progress Association on Monday met Mr. D. McGeachle, superintendent of the Caledonian Company, and other…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Galgong-burrow Railway. Opening Ceremony
Perfect weather and a record garnering attended the official opening of the Burrowa railway on Saturday. The Chief Secretary, Mr. Cann, severed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Motor Ambulance. London
The New South Wales motor ambulance goes o France on Friday to serve with the Australian Voluntary Hospital, will be in charge of Mr. Hurley and Mr. Percy Hunter…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Scarcity of Railway Trucks
As an indication of the severity of the drought in various parts of the State, comes a notification by the Railway Department that three months'…
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