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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1924

3,824 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 10 of 192

British Railway Strike a Serious Position

Singleton Argus · Thursday 24 January 1924 · page 3

London, Tuesday.—A serious strike involving 80 per cent, of the normal railway service, and marked, by dissensions between rival railway unions and…

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"Speedy" Railway and Telegraph

Singleton Argus · Thursday 24 January 1924 · page 2

An instructive example of what can happen in regard to goods sent for transport by our railways came to light on Tuesday. On Thursday last…

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Federal Road Grant. [?]4,000,000 for Main Roads

The Scone Advocate · Friday 25 January 1924 · page 4

The Minister for Local Government (Mr. Fitzpatrick) states that he has arranged to get the [?]1,000,000 of Federal loan money…

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Wedding Passfield—bridge

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 25 January 1924 · page 2

In the Ellalong Church of England on the 22nd December last a very pretty wedding was solemnised by the Rev. Elkin, the contracting…

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Road Grants

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 25 January 1924 · page 2

Strong exception has been taken by the Minister for Federal Works and Railways (Mr. Stewart) to the reiterated statements by the N. S. Wales Minister for…

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New Road Roller

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 25 January 1924 · page 4

The new oil driven roller, recently purchased by the Ipswich City Council at a cost of over £1,400, arrived in Ipswich on Saturday (says the…

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Newcastle Maitland Road

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 25 January 1924 · page 4

Messrs O'Hearn, Baddaley, Connell and Murray, Ms.L.A., yesterday placed a request with Mr. Fitzpatrick, the Minister for Local Government,…

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Main Roads Bill Premier's Assurance

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 25 January 1924 · page 4

In addition to about half a dozen promises, the Premier has also given us his personal assurance that the Main Roads Bill will be one of the…

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North Shore Bridge. British Firms' Tenders

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 25 January 1924 · page 3

It is stated in authoritative quarters that the work of elimination of the tenders for the North Shore bridge is practically complete, and…

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Salt Ash—nelson's Bay Road

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 25 January 1924 · page 2

Mr. M. Cromarty, M.L.A., who has actively associated himself with the effort to secure a grant for the purpose of extending this road towards Nelson's Bay…

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Operations to Be Resumed. Muswellbrook Colliery Obtains Large Orders from Railway Department

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 25 January 1924 · page 1

It was officially stated to-day, following an early morning meeting of the directors of the Muswellbrook Coal Company, that the mine would resume operations at once, in consequence of having obtained a renewal…

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Aberdeen News (From our Correspondent). ABERDEEN, Wednesday. Railway Facilities

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 25 January 1924 · page 8

Mr. Harris, recently appointed district superintendent at Murrurundi, paid a visit to Aberdeen on Wednesday. In an interviem with the…

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British Railways Effect of Strike. London. Jan. 23

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 25 January 1924 · page 5

The railway managers met Mr. John Bromley (secretary of the Associated Locomotive Engineers and Firemen's Society) to-day to…

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The North's Kosclusko. Two Trips to Barrington Tops. First Motor Car at Edwards' Hut

The Scone Advocate · Friday 25 January 1924 · page 2

On January 15th, Mr. H. L. White (Shire President) took the first motor car along the new track to Edwards' Hut, Barrington Tops,…

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Railway Strike

The Scone Advocate · Friday 25 January 1924 · page 1

It is an extraordinary irony of circumstance that simultaneously with the assumption of office of England's first Labor Ministry, a…

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Arrival of the Motor

The Scone Advocate · Friday 25 January 1924 · page 3

The party from Dungog was joined on Friday afternoon by a contingent from the Scone side, three car-loads of whom made the trip…

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Recent Motor Fatality

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 25 January 1924 · page 7

The District Coroner, Mr. Geo. Brown, opened at inquiry at the Kurri Kurri Court House yesterday red at the Heddon Greta overhead…

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Main Roads. the Federal Grant

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 January 1924 · page 7

Strong exception has been taken by the Minister for Federal Works and Railways (Mr. Stewart) to the re[?]terated statements by the New…

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North Shore Bridge Minister's Denial

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 26 January 1924 · page 7

Mr. R. T. Ball, Minister for Works, yesterday denied a statement that the tenders for the construction of the Harbor Bridge had been narrowed…

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North Shore Bridge. Examining Tenders

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 January 1924 · page 9

The estimated cost of the harbour bridge set down in the enabling Act is £5,750,000, inclusive of land resumptions. Land resumption is…

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