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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1922

2,010 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 40 of 101

Wage Cutting in America. Railway Workers Reduced

Singleton Argus · Thursday 1 June 1922 · page 1

Chicago, Monday.—The United States Railroad Labor Board has announced a wage reduction for maintenance-way workers, beginning on July 1, which…

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Claims of Tram Employees Heavy Increases Asked For

Singleton Argus · Thursday 1 June 1922 · page 4

Increases in some instances up to 50 per cent. on the rates ruling at present are claimed in a log of wages and conditions which is to be served on the…

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Railway Stealing Night Officer Convicted

Singleton Argus · Thursday 1 June 1922 · page 4

Albert William Pellatt, formerly a night officer at Emu Plains railway station, was charged at the Parramatta (Quarter Sessions, before Judge…

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The Roads

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 2 June 1922 · page 1

The showers of the past few weeks have had the effect of improving the condition of the roads. There appears to have been just enough rain to…

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Fosterton Bridge

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 2 June 1922 · page 2

The Fosterton Bridge which met such an untimely fate some time ago when a flood carried it away before many people had the pleasure of…

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Pelaw Main Bridge

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 2 June 1922 · page 1

Mr. Hugh Connell M.L.A., has been working for the Minister of Local Government to receive a deputation from the Tarro Shire Council with…

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Abernethy Road

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 2 June 1922 · page 3

The members of the district are proposing that the Government contribute £1000 towards the making of the road Keavsley to Abernethy, and that the…

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Fosterton Road Petitioners

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 2 June 1922 · page 5

The Mayor said that Ald. Jones, Burton and himself had been deputed to go into the matter of the petition from residents of Fosterton Road…

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Railway Smash. Passenger Train and Goods. Stationmaster's Foresight. Melbourne

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 2 June 1922 · page 5

A train, containing 200 passengers crashed into the rear of a goods-train at Macedon station, Victoria last night…

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Coolongolook-topi Topibungwahl Road

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 2 June 1922 · page 2

Mr. R. S. Vincent, M.L.A. has received the following from the Local Governor Department:—Your representations on half of Mr. H. C. Higgins of Cool[?]…

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The Road to Ruin

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 2 June 1922 · page 6

A sad story was, revealed in the Melbourne Supreme Court last week when a bank teller, the youngest in the service, was sentenced, to two…

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Abernethy to Kearsley Road

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 2 June 1922 · page 4

Mr. J. M. Baddeley, M.L.A., has been advised that the matter of the work of the Kearsley to Abernethy road is one for consideration by the…

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Main Roads Vote. Minister Replies to Criticisms. Not Intention to Reduce

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 2 June 1922 · page 6

According to a telegraphed report of a speech at Glen Innes, Mr. Dru[?]mond, M.L.A., expressed fears that Mr. Fit patrick, Minister for Local…

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Railway and Tramway Institute

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 2 June 1922 · page 4

The Railway and Tramway Institute class-room, which is situated over Mr. A. J. Collard's store, in High-street. West Maitland, was…

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Maryvale-sandt Hollow. Proposed Railway. Works Committee to Inquire

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 2 June 1922 · page 2

A representative deputation waited on the Minister for Public Works in Sydney yesterday, requesting that the matter ot the proposed…

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Land Valuation. Railway Commissioners and Council

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 2 June 1922 · page 3

Reserved judgment has been delivered in the Land Valuation Court by Justice pike in the appeal by the Railway Commissioners, against the…

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Railway Smash. Runaway Goods Train. Brisbane

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 3 June 1922 · page 5

A runaway goods train collided with an incoming mixed train near Edungalba, Queensland. The break-van of the goods train was…

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North Shore Bridge. Mr. Bradfield's Mission

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 3 June 1922 · page 11

Mr. J. Estell, M.L.C., ex-Minister for Works, last week explained Mr. Bradfield's mission in regard to the North Shore bridge…

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Express Train in Peril Schoolboy's Dangerous Prank

Singleton Argus · Saturday 3 June 1922 · page 1

In connection with the matter of a sleeper being fixed on the railway line near Epping before the Brisbane express came, along (as reported in the…

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North Shore Bridge. Removing Misconceptions Statement by Mr. Estell

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 3 June 1922 · page 13

Mr. J. Estell, M.L.C., who was Minister for works in the late government and by whose direction sir J. J. C.Bradneld, chief Engineer, is…

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