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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1920

1,694 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 59 of 85

Strikers Expelled. Railway Union's Action

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 September 1920 · page 12

Twenty-four shunters in the Perth goods yard who struck work on their own account and in defiance of the Railway Employees' 'Union, having…

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Cycling. Saturday's Road Race

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 September 1920 · page 7

The Maitland Bicycle Club's road race, from the Town Hall to Morpeth Bridge and Back (10 miles) on Saturday afternoon, resulted:—O. Sellers,…

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Victorian Railwaymen

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 September 1920 · page 5

A Melbourne, telegram reports that considerable unrest exists in the ranks of members of the Victorian Railway Union. A mass meeting decided to…

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Motor Cycle Racing. Parsons' Great Riding

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 September 1920 · page 7

When H. E. Parsons came over from Victoria to compete in the Motor Cycle Club Peace Loan Carnival at Victoria Park Racecourse, held on Saturday, he…

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Peace Loan Aeroplane

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 7 September 1920 · page 2

The Mayor (Alderman M'Dougall) has received a telegram that a Peace Loan aeroplane is due here from Tamworth about midday to-day (Tuesday)…

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Dangerous Road

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 September 1920 · page 4

The deposit of silt on the Bolwarra roads has proved very dangerous. The shire has cleared a track only wide enough in some places for a single…

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Stroud Road Bible Society's Social

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 7 September 1920 · page 5

A social in connection with the Stroud Road Methodist Bible Society was held on Thursday evening last, a large number of members and their…

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Bridge Collapses. Boys Hurled Into Flooded Stream

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 September 1920 · page 2

The suspension bridge across the Gleneig at Casterton (Vic.), collapsed on Monday afternoon while about 20 High School and State School boys,…

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North Queensland. Adventurous Motor Car Trip

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 September 1920 · page 6

The Australian Inland Mission's representative at Cloncurry thus describes a hurried trip through part of his parish:—…

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Tramway Electrification

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 September 1920 · page 4

Mr. Asherott, an officer of the Railway, Electrical Supply Department was in town yesterday and to-day enquiring into the West Maitland…

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Loose Metal on Tramways

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 8 September 1920 · page 4

The East Maitland Municipal Council recently wrote the tramway department drawing attention to the way metal was put on the tramlines,…

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Portuguese East Africa. Railway Strike. Capetown, September 7

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 8 September 1920 · page 5

A message from Lourence Marques states that a strike of railwaymen commenced on the 3rd instant, and subsequently spread to all other Government…

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Peace Loan Aeroplane

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 9 September 1920 · page 6

Just as people were going home to lunch yesterday the whirring of an aeroplane was heard. The machine proved to began Avro. of Le Rhone…

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Reducing Train Journeys

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 9 September 1920 · page 4

Mr. W. Kearsley, M.L.A., has been advised by the Minister for Public Works that exploration surveys had been made with a view of reducing the train…

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Bonus System. Railway Workshop Payments Denounced

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 9 September 1920 · page 3

A conference of Traders Union delegates was held at the Sydney Trades Hall for the purpose of discussing the bonus system which was in force in…

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Tramway Electrification

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 9 September 1920 · page 4

When he was in town yesterday Mr. W. Cooper per-way inspector of the Maitland and Newcastle tram lines, broached the subject of the…

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Bolmore Bridge

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 10 September 1920 · page 4

Mr. W. F. O'Hearn, M.L.A., has been officially informed with reference to his letter of 18th June, enclosing a communication received…

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Morpeth Train Service

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 10 September 1920 · page 4

Mr. W. F. O'Hearn, M.L.A., who has received many letters complaining of the unsatisfactory condition of the train service to Morpeth, is arranging for an…

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New Main Roads. No Statutory Provision

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 11 September 1920 · page 4

In regard to a letter from the Laughtondale Progress Association urging Unit the main road be alterned to one along the Hawkesbury River…

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Bridge Collapses. Boys Hurled Into Flooded Stream

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 11 September 1920 · page 6

The suspension bridge across the Gleneg at Custerton (Vic.), collapsed on Monday afternoon, while about 2 High School and State School boys…

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