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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1921

1,849 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 23 of 93

Railway Inquiry. the Holiday Question

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 9 April 1921 · page 7

At the Railway and Tamway Inquiry, before His Honor Judge Edmunds, William Funnell, a staff clerk in the office of the Chief…

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Railwaymen's Attitude. Coal Export Trade. London, April 8

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 9 April 1921 · page 5

Mr. Thomas states that the railwaymen have decided that the conditions offered to the miners would begin a general attack upon working-class…

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Motor Fatality. Little Girl Killed

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 April 1921 · page 6

Two little girls Agatina T[?] and Eunice Muncaster (8), [?] knocked down by a motor car at [?] loughby on Tuesday afternoon. [?]…

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Railway Supplies. New Zealand's Orders. London, March 31

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 April 1921 · page 13

Shipments to the order of the New Zealand Government of 12,000 tons of rails begin in April, and wheels and axles are already on their way…

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Victorian Railways. Commissioners' Appeal

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 April 1921 · page 11

Fur some days the Australian Railways Union has been circulating leafets among railway men in Victoria as propaganda in connection with the…

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Tramway Extension. Maitland to Homeville

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 April 1921 · page 5

Mr. W. F. O'Hearn, M.L.A., has received, a letter some the Public Works Department in regard to the proposed extension of the Maitland…

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Stroud Road

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 12 April 1921 · page 5

Miss Iola Bowden has returned homo after undergoing an operation in Dr King's private hospital for appendicitis. Iola is a popular young…

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Road Deviations. Allyn and Paterson Rivers

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 12 April 1921 · page 3

On Tuesday, 29th ult., Mr. T. E. Scott, hon. secretary of the Lostock Progress Association, at the Gresford School of Arts addressed a large…

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Road Making. Better System Needed. Hybrid Local Government

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 12 April 1921 · page 4

The account which we publish in another column of the controversy that has gone on for some years between the Lostock Progress Association and the Wallarobba Shire Council over proposed deviations in an especially ill-graded road furnishes illustrations of a very faulty system for providing…

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Unenviable Conditions. (Published by Arrangement.) Roads Described As Sluice-ways Op Illicit Liquor

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 12 April 1921 · page 4

The New York Herald declares that the roadways of Vermont State are "sluiceways of illicit liquor" and that the State "is infested with decoctions…

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Upper Hunter Shire Council. Defaulting Ratepayers to Be Prosecuted. Action in Connection with Noxious Weeds. President on the State of the Roads

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 12 April 1921 · page 2

Monthly meeting of above held on Thursday morning last. Present: Councillors H. L. White (President), S. Holmes, A. S. Barwick,…

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East Greta Railways

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 12 April 1921 · page 4

An application was made in the Industrial Court, Sydney, before Judge Curlewis, on behalf of the New South Wales branch of the Australian…

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Railway Match

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 12 April 1921 · page 7

South Maitland Railways beat Port Waratah Loco, on the West Maitland Park on Saturday by 9 runs. Port Waratah made 108 (Goodchild 21…

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Our Telegrams. Motor Fatality. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 12 April 1921 · page 5

When a motor car was making a trial run in Auckland, New Zealand, it capsized. Mrs. Wyatt was killed and her husband injured seriously…

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Car and Motor Bike Collide

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 12 April 1921 · page 2

A collision between a motor car and a motor bicycle took place on Saturday, but fortunately without any serious results. The Rev. P. Musgrove states that…

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Railwaymen's Holidays 540,000 Days a Year. a Deficit of 17,000 Days

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 12 April 1921 · page 2

The staff of the New South Wales railway and tramway service, embracing 50,000 men, absorbs 540,000 holidays a year, which, necessitates clearing…

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Bowls. Northern District v. Queensland Railway

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 13 April 1921 · page 7

Four strong rinks representing the Northern District Association. met Queensland Railways touring team, on the Lowlands green yesterday…

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Railway Appointment

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 April 1921 · page 4

Mr. Eric Sutherland, of Newcastle, has been appointed to the position of leading porter at the West Maitland railway station, in succession to Mr…

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Tram Car and Engine Collision at Woollongabba

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 April 1921 · page 7

While a loaded tram our was passing over a level crossing at Woollongabba (Q.), on Wednesday afternoon it crashed into the engine of a goods train…

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Shire Roads

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 15 April 1921 · page 3

Ratepayer writes:—As one of the dormant ratepayers of C riding I was roused from my slumbers by your report of the Port Stephens Shire Council meeting in…

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