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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1925

4,025 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 14 of 202

City Protest. Against. Main Roads Tax

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 21 January 1925 · page 6

The Sydney City Council has unanimously agreed to make at emphatic pretest to the State Government against the imposition of a…

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Inventor's Claims. Diesel Eng1ne for Road Traffic

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 21 January 1925 · page 6

A development which, it is claimed, foreshadows nothing less than a revoiution, has made its appearance in the world of mechanical transport, This is…

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Motor to Burned. Inquiry Resumed. Use' of Explosive Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 21 January 1925 · page 5

The adjourned hearing of the inquiry into the burning of a motor bes, the property of James Cain. of Cessnoc, in the early hours of the morning of…

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Road Grants

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 22 January 1925 · page 4

The members for Maitland have been informed by the Minister for Local Government that the following grants have been allotted from…

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Letter to the Editor Bad Roads

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 22 January 1925 · page 6

Sir,—Your leader of some time ago dealing with the Main Roads question should be an incentive to shire councillors to see that roads…

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Driver Responsible. Sydney Railway Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 22 January 1925 · page 3

The special board of inquiry into the railway accident in the Sydney station yard on the 14th instant, when an incoming train from Ashfield…

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Motor Car Skids

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 22 January 1925 · page 4

Occupants of an Essex motor car had a narrow escape on the road near the monument at Bolwarra Heights; In attempting to round…

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Boy Killed. Run Over by Motor Bus. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 22 January 1925 · page 5

Sydney George Ellis, aged 17, was run over and killed by a motor bus at Annandale this morning…

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Railway Disaster

Singleton Argus · Thursday 22 January 1925 · page 4

Paris, Monday.—Five passengers were killed when the engine of a fast train was derailed while crossing a bridge near Dijon, and the first carriage was…

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Ernie Lindsay Dead Run Over by Motor Van. (By Telegraph) Melbourne

Singleton Argus · Thursday 22 January 1925 · page 2

Ernie Lindsay, the world's amateur junior cycling record holder, crashed into a motor van near his home on Monday. The wheels of the vehicle…

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Motor Cars Collide Man's Marvellous Escape. (By Telegraph.) Sydney

Singleton Argus · Thursday 22 January 1925 · page 2

As the result of a collision between two motor cars Eastwood last night a man, whose name has not been ascertained, was pinned beneath one car…

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Rail Motor Services

Singleton Argus · Thursday 22 January 1925 · page 3

The Railway Comimssioners are going forward with with their policy for the provision of rail motor servicese on country branch lines as rapidly as…

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Remarkable Escape Dray Struck by Coal Train

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 23 January 1925 · page 9

There was a remarkable escape from serious injury at the Aberdare Extended level crossing on Tuesday. A carter named Foster was driving…

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Road Grants £2000 for Muswellbrook Shire

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 23 January 1925 · page 10

Hon. W. Bennett,-and Mr. W. Cameron, M's.L.A., have been informed by the Minister for Local Government that the following grants have been…

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Inventor's Claims. Diesel Engine for Road Traffic

The Scone Advocate · Friday 23 January 1925 · page 8

A development which, it is claimed, foreshadows nothing less than a revolution, has made its appearance in the world of mechanical…

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Expensive Quarrel Assault and Language Trouble In Wollombi Road

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 23 January 1925 · page 3

Mr. H. M. Fletcher, P.M., was engaged for a considerable time on Tuesday in the Cessnock Police Court in hearing a case in which the…

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Sidney Railway Smash. Finding of Board of Inquiry

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 23 January 1925 · page 9

The board appointed to inquire into the railway accident outside the Sydney station last Wednesday week made its report on Wednesday. Mr…

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Motor News Cae Repairs. Present-bay Designs. Matter of Cost

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 23 January 1925 · page 2

In looking at present-day designs from the critical viewpoint of an owner-driver mechanic, one is unable to find any serious attempt on the…

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Nurse Killed. Hit by Motor Lorry

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 23 January 1925 · page 3

Miss Gerude Mary MePhail, aged 37 years, a ne[?] in the employment of the Department of Education, died yesterday from injuries received through…

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Local and General. Motor Picnic

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 23 January 1925 · page 4

Members and friends of Nil Desperandum Lodge No. 42, West Maitland, are reminded by advertisement, of the basket picnic to Speers' Point,…

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