An Overland Feat Melbourne-adelaide Road Record
On April 19th [?]t at 5.30 a.m. Messrs. Watkins and Pederson in a light four Overland car set out from Melbourne in an attempt to lower the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport
Railways, roads & transport, 1923
2,882 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 59 of 145
Goods Train Wreacked Crews Leap Foe HiE. Smash at Springwoqd. Trucks Telescope and Burn
Racing madly down the mountain side at a speed estimated at eighty miles an hour a heavily-laden goods train became a complete wreck early…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Appeal. for a Housewifery and Cookery Training School. To Train Young Girls for Domestic Service. For Our Own Australian Girls As Well As Girls From Overseas
The need for a Housewifery and Cookery Training School for domestic servants is very urgent: Many people will turn round and say,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Water How Parkes Duals with the Commissioners
At the end of Juno the existing' agreement between the Railway Commissioners and the municipal council for the supply of water fOr…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Mail Service Merriwa Protests
At the last mooting of the Morriwa Shire Council, a letter was received from tho Postmaster. General's Dopartment stating that the letter…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tram Employees. Claim for Higher Pay. Hours Question
In the Commonwealth Arbitration Court, in Sydney, the hearing was continued of the application on behalf of the Tramway Employees'…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Funicular Railway. Accident in Portugal
Reuter's Libson correspondent reports that six persons were killed and thirty injured seriously in an accident to a train on the funicular railway at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Badly Smashed. Motor 'Bus Crashes Into Telegraph Pole. Sydney
A big motor 'bus laden with passengers crashed into a telegraph, pole in Oxford street, city, to-day, and was badly smashed. Three person, the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →English Inventions. Improving the Railway Coupling
Very few among the ordinary travellers on railways realise how much their safety depends upon the piece of iron or steel which joins the carriages…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motor Fatality. Racehorse Owner Killed
A motor car, containing a party of [?]eelong (Vie.) residents, on their way back from Ballarat races on Friday right, struck a horse on the Ballarat…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bridge Destroyed. Consternation at the Porte London, May 21
Reuter's Athens correspondent states that there was consternation at the circulation of a report that the Turks had blown up the be[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Country Road Construction. Stronger Shires Needed. Genuine Local Government
Comparisons, it is said, are odious, but there ,are some comparisons that are very instructive, for instance, that between the administrative expenses of the Bolwarra and the Tweed Shires. It will be found that the latter shire, with an expenditure about five times as groat as that of the former,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Constables Injured. Knocked Down by Motorist. Melbourne
By what is alleged to have been a deliberate act a motorist traveling over Prince's Bridge last night ran into two police constables and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Aeroplane Mishap. How It Occurred
Mr. Viggers, who was injured in the aeroplane accident on Monday night at Jerriwa, left Yass Hospital on Wednesday. He says a piece of wood broke…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Aeroplane Disaster. Pilot and Mechanic Escape
A sensational acroplane crash occurred at Jerrawa, near Yass, on Monday afternoon. Flight Commander Viggers and Mechanic J. Reid had miraculous…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ten Milks Road Race
On Saturday, June 2, the Kurri Kurri Amateur Bicycle Club will conduct a 10 miles road race from Kurri Kurri Post Office to Heddon…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Elbow Shattered. Struck by Passing Train. Sydney
Last night, Thomas Birch, 30, of Surry Hills, was travelling in a train to Goulburn when train elbow was shattered by a passing train. He…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shortening Hands. Consternation in Tramway Departments. SYDNEY
About 400 employees of the tramway dept. have received notice, to quit as a result of the introduction of the 48 hours' week. The notice…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Policemen Run Down. Motorist's Mad Act. (By Telegraph.) Sydney
By what is alleged to have been a deliborate act a tourist travelling over Prince's Bridge, Melbourne, last night ran into two police constables and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Aeroplane Disaster. Pilot and Mechanic Escape
A sensational aeroplane crash occurred at Jerrawa, near Yass, on Monday afternoon. Flight-commander Viggers and Mechanic J…
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