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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1925

4,025 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 22 of 202

Proposed Bridge Over Goulburn River

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 6 February 1925 · page 4

At the monthly meeting of the Shire Council to-day, Mr. H. H. White, representing the Martindale Progress Association, made out a…

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Paterson to Vacv Road

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 6 February 1925 · page 4

It was recommended by the engineer at the meeting of the Bolworra Council this afternoon that 200 cubic yards of the best material…

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Road Grant Nothing for Cessnock Shire

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 6 February 1925 · page 8

Details of the combined Commonwealth and State road grant, which has been allocated, have been made available. The final allocation…

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Flood Damage. Bridge Washed Away. Damage in North Queensland

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 6 February 1925 · page 6

The Queensland Railway Commissioner, referring to the fact that three spans of the Inkerman Bridge across the Burdekin River had been washed…

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Electric Trams. Superior to Motor Buses. Brisbane View

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 6 February 1925 · page 2

A sub-committee of the Brisbane Tramway Trust, appointed to report to the Trust on the subject of motor buses, says that no other form of…

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The First Railway

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 6 February 1925 · page 7

This year there will be celebrated the 100th birthday of English railways. It was on September 27th., 1825, that the Stockton and…

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Guyra to Dorrigo. Proposed Railway Again Rejected. by Public Works Committee

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 6 February 1925 · page 2

The Public Works Committee has again rejected the proposed railway from Guyra to Dorrigo. The estimated cost of the work was…

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Motor Speedway Carnival

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 6 February 1925 · page 4

The H.R.A. and H. Association will hold its usual weekly carnival of motor cycling and cycling races, on the Show Ground Speed way, on…

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Remarkable Escape. Knocked Down by Motor

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 6 February 1925 · page 6

A remarkable escape from serious injury was experienced by a telegraph messenger employed at the General Post Office Shortly after…

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Pathetic Case. Motor Drivers's Death

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 6 February 1925 · page 7

Thomas Turrell, 40 who was injured in the motor bus aceldent at Cremarne on Thursday afternoon, died shortly after admission tp…

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Railway Fatality at Wallarobba

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 6 February 1925 · page 2

A sad railway fatality occurred at Wallarobba station at 1.20 a.m. on Wednesday morning when Mrs. Johnson (nee Mary Hicks) of…

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Motoring Notes. the Motor Tourist's Outfit. "Gadgets" Which He May Make at Home

The Scone Advocate · Friday 6 February 1925 · page 4

To see many of the tourist parties which one meets with in the country during holiday time, is to realise that very few motorists fully…

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Motor Cycling. £100 Maitland Derby

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Friday 6 February 1925 · page 2

The committee of the H.R.A and [?] Association have decided to hold on February 21st an event for motor eyelists which will be called the Maltland…

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Railway Smash. Runaway Coal Trucks.TRAVEL Forty Miles an Hour

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Friday 6 February 1925 · page 2

The marshalling yards at the Abermain Colliery was the scene of a railway smash early on Wednesday morning, when about 40 coal waggons moved…

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Sporting Notes by "Bullfrog." Motor Driving Cessnock Youth's Record

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 6 February 1925 · page 8

Tom Barrett, son of My. W. J. Cessnock Show and Sports Club, Ltd., did some remarkable driving in a special Studebaker touring car…

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Killed on Railway

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 6 February 1925 · page 7

While going to Dungog on Wednesday morning to attend the funeral of her brother, Mr. Thomas Hicks, who was killed on Monday afternoon…

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Grants for Roads

Singleton Argus · Saturday 7 February 1925 · page 1

Full particulars of the Commonweath-cum-State main roads grant for 1924-25 were made available by the Minister for Local Government, Mr J…

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Road Grants. Minister Replies to Criticism

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 7 February 1925 · page 6

Mr. J. C. L. Fitzpatrick, Minister for Local Government, made a brief reply to the protests voiced by Messrs. J. M. Baddeley and W…

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Muswellbrook Letter Bridge Over Goulburn River Muswelibrook

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 7 February 1925 · page 6

Air. H. H. White, representing the Maitland Progress Association, was present at the monthly meeting of the Muswellbrook Shire Council to-day,…

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Motor Fuel From Tar One Tenth the Cost of Petrol

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 7 February 1925 · page 11

Remarkable experiments are being carried out at the artillery laboratory at Cineennes for the production at motor spirit from far by the catlysing…

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