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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1922

2,010 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 55 of 101

Bridge at Yarrawa

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 19 July 1922 · page 4

Hon. Walter Bennett, M.L.A., has been informed by the Minister for Works that in relation to his representations a sum of [?]7000 has been…

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Good Roads. Car Owners' Interests. an Example From America

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 19 July 1922 · page 4

Seeing what good roads and bad roads too mean to the motor car and motor lorry owner, it might be expected that these owners would club together to do whatever [?] in their power by organised effort to secure better roads…

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Non-paying Railways Question of Subsidy

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 19 July 1922 · page 3

Mr. Bruxner, leader of the Progressive party, replied to the statement made by Mr. Cocks, the State Treasurer; on the question of subsidies for…

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Motor Accidents

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 19 July 1922 · page 3

A return showing tho number of motor accidents in the State in which casualties occurred, during the year 1921, has been prepared by Traffic…

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Motor Car Accident. Plunged Into River. London, July 18

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 19 July 1922 · page 5

Reuter's Casablanca correspondent reports that seven persons were killed and eleven injured through a big tourist car crashing into a parapet brdige…

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Aeroplane in a Storm Tosses Like a Feather

Singleton Argus · Thursday 20 July 1922 · page 2

Captain E. W. Pereival, who is a nephew of Mr O. Wikner, of Singleton, had a sensational experience on Sunday. Flying from Sydney to…

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Proposed Bridge Over Goulburn River

Singleton Argus · Thursday 20 July 1922 · page 2

Hon. Walter, Bennett has been informed by the Minister for Public Works, in reply to his representations, that a sum of £7000. has been voted on…

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City Railway First Section Within Three Years

Singleton Argus · Thursday 20 July 1922 · page 1

The Government, it is stated, only intends to proceed with the section of the city railway as far as Hyde Park. The first section will be finished within three…

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American Railway Strike Poisoned Food

Singleton Argus · Thursday 20 July 1922 · page 4

Chicago, Monday.-One hundred men who were replacing the striking shopmen on the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul railroad were seriously poison…

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Yarrawa Bridge

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 21 July 1922 · page 2

Hon. W. Bennett, M.L.A., is in receipt of the following from the Public Works Department:—Referring to your representations in relation to…

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Crops Grown on Roads

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 21 July 1922 · page 2

The Bolwarra Shire roads through farming lands are for the most part formed only in the centre and are unfenced. Farmers make a practice of growing crops…

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Bridge Over the Goulburn River. £7000 Voted for the Work

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 21 July 1922 · page 6

Hon. Walter Bennett and Mr. W. Cameron, M's.L.A., have been informed by the Minister for Public Works that in relation to their…

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Merriwa-dunedoo Railway

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 21 July 1922 · page 6

Mr. W. Cameron, M. L. A., has received the following communication from the Under-Secretary, Public Works /Department:—"With…

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Motor Car Destroyed by Fire

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 21 July 1922 · page 4

Our genial motor-car proprietor. Mr. P. McGruder, had a slice of bad luck on Friday last when he had one of his big "Overlands" (35…

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Motor Hold-up. Te Mirrool Occurrence

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 21 July 1922 · page 5

Further details of the sensational occurrences near Mirrool, when a car containing Inspector C. A. Skinner and Paymaster Liefferman, of the sile…

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Big Landslide. in Railway Cutting. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 21 July 1922 · page 5

Owing to the continuous soaking rains experienced during the last few days, a serious fall of earth has occurred at a railway cutting between…

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Motor Racing. Record Breakers at Brooklands. London, July 19

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 21 July 1922 · page 5

The old-time speed pioneer S. [?] Edge, who in 1907 drove a 60 h.p. motor for 24 hours, averaging over a mile a minute, began a similar…

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The Railway Proposals Minimbah to Morriset Preferable

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 21 July 1922 · page 11

There is at the present time a great deal of agitation going on re the construction of a railway form Cessnock [?] Cockle Creek, which every one in…

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Non-paying Railways

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 21 July 1922 · page 4

At the end of every financial year the State Treasurer has always a lot to say about losses incurred on the non paying railways of the State, but…

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Bridge Repairs. Railway Service Achievement

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 22 July 1922 · page 16

"Owing to repairs to bridge this rand is closed until further notice." Such a notice is quite common to a traveller on the road. It is met with…

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