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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1924

3,824 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 15 of 192

Motor Ambulance Brigade

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 1 February 1924 · page 4

Mr. H. O. Healy, who is largely responsible for the movement to secure a motor transport ambulance brigade for Maitland, yesterday, in…

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Morpeth-Port Stephens Railway

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 1 February 1924 · page 4

At the meeting of the Miller's Forest Progress Association held on Tuesday evening it was unanimously decided to support the programme of…

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Motor Cycle Club

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 1 February 1924 · page 4

The Maitland Motor Cycle Club will hold a hamper excursion on Sunday next; to Redhead. The party will leave Church-street corner at…

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State Revenue. Railway Returns Improve. Totalisator Decline

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 1 February 1924 · page 6

State revenue for January was £930,533 granter than that for January of last year. The total revenue for last mouth was…

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A Soldiers Protest. Railway Refreshment Room

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 1 February 1924 · page 6

Nearly six years ago Mr. Owen Jurd built a small refreshment room on Weal Maitland Railway Station, which, with the installation of a…

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Port Stephens Railway

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 1 February 1924 · page 2

The Railway Commissioners do not favour the proposed construction of a railway from Stroud to Port Stephens, and state that Newcastle meets all re…

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Alleged Malicious Burning of Motor Lorry

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 1 February 1924 · page 2

Thomas Malcolm Garret Bamber was charged with having maliciously injured a motor lorry (valued at £975) near Myall Creek on January…

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Port Stephens Railway Commissioners Adverse. Newcastle Sufficient

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 1 February 1924 · page 5

The New South Wales Railway Commissioners are opposed to the construction of a railway line from Stroud Road to Port Stephens, and…

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British Railway Strike. Settlement Effected. London

The Scone Advocate · Friday 1 February 1924 · page 1

The railway strike has been settled. This intelligence was first published in the form of a brief official…

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Thefts of Motor Cars. Nine Suspects Arrested

The Scone Advocate · Friday 1 February 1924 · page 1

In connection with the frequent disappearance of motor cars from various parts of the city and suburbs, the Sydney police on Tuesday…

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Motor Cycling Meeting of Cessnock Club

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 1 February 1924 · page 10

A meeting of the Cessnock District Motor Cycling Club was held at the Empire Cafe on Wednesday night, the vice-president (Mr. Geo. Heydon)…

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Roads Grant

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 2 February 1924 · page 4

A circular has been received, from the Local Government Department by the various councils intimating that a loan vote of £1,000,000 has been…

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The Long Bridge

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 2 February 1924 · page 4

Mr. W. F. O'Hearn, M.L.A., has again interviewed the Works Department in connection with the further delay in the repairing of the bridge…

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Main Roads Bill Premier's Assurance

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 February 1924 · page 11

"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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News From India. Aeroplane Fatalities. Delhi, Jan, 27

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 February 1924 · page 13

A message from Peshawar of Saturday's date, reports that an aeroplane crash occurred three miles from Quotta yesterday, resulting in the…

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Harbour Bridge. Mischievous Statements Resented

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 February 1924 · page 7

Sir George Fuller, State Premier, made reference to what he described "misrepresentations made in certain quarters" in connection with the…

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Money for Roads. Statement by Minister

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 February 1924 · page 6

The Minister for Local Government (Mr. Fitzpatrick), stated that the Government was arranging for the issue during this financial year of the…

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Road Repairs. Government Threatens Prosecution

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 February 1924 · page 9

The Auburn Council has received a bill from the Local Government Department for £51,07/7/11, being half the actual cost with interest…

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Daring Leap. From Moving Train Into River

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 February 1924 · page 14

When James Chester Power found that he had boarded the wrong train shortly after it left Flinders, street (Melbourne) railway, station he solved…

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Harbour Bridge. Confidence in Mr. Bradfield. Minister's Statement

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 February 1924 · page 16

The Minister for Works and Railwaps (Mr. R. T. Ball) accompanied by Mr. J. J. C. Bradfield, engineer-in-chief and designer of the Sydney…

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