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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1923

2,882 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 41 of 145

Protection Against Motorists

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 6 April 1923 · page 2

Mr. Robert Ashworth, headmaster of the Branxton Public School, has written to the shire council drawing their attention to the danger occasioned by…

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Motor Accident

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 6 April 1923 · page 2

Mr. C. F[?]nance, of Cessnock, met with an accident on the Allandale Road on Thursday, when he turned a calf, which was straying on the road…

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Railway Concession Refused

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 6 April 1923 · page 2

The Railway Commissioners have written to the Cessnock Shire Council in respect to their application for the extension of the Newcastle suburban…

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Free Train to Paxton

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 7 April 1923 · page 4

Messrs. Creer and Berkeley auctioneers, of Newcastle will offer on behalf of the East Greta Coalmining Co. Ltd. on Saturday April 21…

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Train Smash. Two Eprsons Injured

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 April 1923 · page 14

The 4.30 p.m. train from Gembrook (Victoria), running on the narrow-gauge railway, when entering Ferntree Gully station at between four…

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Kirkwood "Crashes". Golfer in Aeroplane Smash. Vancouver, April 5

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 7 April 1923 · page 5

Kinkwood. the golfer, going by aeroplane to a game at Asheville North Carolina, escaped injury when the machine crashed. The polot…

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Cars in Collision. on Wiseman's Ferry Road

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 April 1923 · page 3

A collision between two motor cars occurred on Tuesday afternoon, about ten miles from Wollombi, on the Wiseman's Ferry-road. One of…

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Points Spragged. Attempt to Wreck Train. on North Shore Line.sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 7 April 1923 · page 5

Another attempt was made last night to wreck a train at Gordon, on the North Share line but fortunately no accident securred. This is the sixth…

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Seriously Injured. Motor Cycle Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 7 April 1923 · page 6

A motor cycle accident occurred at Bankstown when Jenkyn Denham (28), of Broute the driver and his grandmother Alice Llewelyn (89)…

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Branch Railways to Port Stephens

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 7 April 1923 · page 4

Tho members for Maitland have received word from tho Public Works Department, with reference to their representations on behalf of the…

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Maitland to Weston Motor Service

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 7 April 1923 · page 4

Mr. C. Christianson, of Kurri, has purchased another new motor 'bus, at a coat of £2000, for the Maitland to Weston service running from…

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Paying Railways. Victoria and New Zealand

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 7 April 1923 · page 4

The Victorian railway revenue for the nine months ended March 31, was £8,576,979, or over half a million above that for the game period last…

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An Economical Motor Ship

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 7 April 1923 · page 5

Marked advances have been maderoeently in the efficiency of motor ships constructed in Great Britain Very satisfactory trials were made…

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City Railway. Sydney's Traffic Problem SYDNEY,Saturday

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 7 April 1923 · page 5

It was stated to-day that the Government intended to make sufficient money available on next estimates to enable the important…

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Japanese in Paris. Motor Car Fatality. Paris, April 2

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 April 1923 · page 2

The French paper "Le Matin," in an account of the accident, says that Prince Kitashirakawa was driving at the rate of 120 kilometres an hour…

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Country Railways. Dubbo-werris Creek and Molong Dubbo

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 April 1923 · page 6

The Dubbo Progress Association has been informed by the Commissioner for Railways that the Molong-Dubbo line should be completed by…

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Motor Cyclist Killed

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 April 1923 · page 7

Eric Mackay son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Mackay, of Orange, met with such serious injuries through being thrown from a motor cycle on…

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Starving Stock. Reduction of Railway Freights

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 April 1923 · page 6

Recently the Acting-Premier (Mr. Oakes) promised a deputation to refer a request for the reduction of railway freights on starving stock to…

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Motor Smashes. Double Somersault. Accident in Victoria

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 April 1923 · page 7

A motor car conveying eight holiday-makers from Dromann to Melbourne turned a double somersault while rounding a dangerous turn on…

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Motor Fatality. Two People Killed

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 April 1923 · page 13

Miss Tyler, and elderly woman, and her niece, Grace Tyler, aged about 12, were killed in a motor accident in Brisbane on Sunday night, while…

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