Motor Fatality Cessnock Driver Killed Car Overturns Into Creek. CESSNOCK, April 3
The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 April 1926 · page 9
Word was received here last night from the Nabiac police that Walter Toovey, a taxi-driver, of Cessnock, a well-known resident, had been killed…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Coal Heap Slipped. Railway Inspector Killed. Newcastle
The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 April 1926 · page 8
A middle-aged man named William Bennet was killed in the railway yard at Port Waratah this morning. Bennett, who was a sub-inspector in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sport Abroad. Motoring. London, April 2
The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 April 1926 · page 12
Woolf Barnato, driving a British Bentley car, broke all the world records for distances from 59 to 2000 kilometres on the Mont Lery track…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Border Railways. Effect on Closer Settlement
The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 April 1926 · page 2
The opening of the Moama to Balranald railway on Monday marks the completion of the first instalment of the railway proposals under the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor 'Buses. Proposed State Monopoly
The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 April 1926 · page 6
The Railway Commissioners have been unable to furnish a report to the State Government on the proposal of the Government to take over the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sydney Trams. Competition of Buses
The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 April 1926 · page 6
Figures of the passengers carried by the Manly steamers on Monday prove to be better even than those of last year. A rough estimate places the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Victorian Railways. Commissioners Message
The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 April 1926 · page 3
In a special message to the staff the Victorian Railway Commissioner point out that the railways must look after business if they would keep it…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Goods Siding
The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 April 1926 · page 7
Some months ago a deputation of local business men interviewed the Northern Area Commissioner, and requested that greater facilities be…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Seven Injured. Head-on Motor Collision
The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 April 1926 · page 5
When two motor cars collided head-on in Burns Bay road, near Fig Tree Bridge, Lane Cove, on Wednesday, seven persons were injured…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motorist Charged. Wanton Driving Alleged
The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 April 1926 · page 4
Max Hoffman, 61, manufacturer, was charged at the Central Police Court Sydney, with having done bodily harm to Ruby Thiem by want[?]ly…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Weekly Motor Notes Prudent Purchasing
Singleton Argus · Saturday 10 April 1926 · page 2
To buy wisely is half the battle, and the man or woman who is in the happy position of having finances enough to warrant the purchase of a car and who…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Spirit Re C.o.r. Debate in House of Representatives. Statement by Mr E. E. Wagstatf
Singleton Argus · Saturday 10 April 1926 · page 3
It is extremely gratifying to us to have our bulk development, on which we have spent so much, money during the last few months, endorsed by the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Notes. Prudent Purchasing
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 12 April 1926 · page 6
To buy wisely is half the battle, and the man or woman who is in the happy position of having finances enough to warrant the purchase of a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Regulation Strike. Melbourne Trams Dislocated
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 12 April 1926 · page 2
Serious dislocation of traffic was caused by the regulation strike which was begun on Saturday on all the Melbourne tramways except these…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Racing. Results at Newcastle
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 12 April 1926 · page 2
E. Buck was the dashing figure on Newcastle Speedway on Saturday evening, and he won on every occasion he started. He broke his own…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Boy Killed. Five Persons Injured. Motor Car Overturns
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 12 April 1926 · page 2
A motor car containing Mr. and Mrs. Burchett, of Brighton, Barkeroad, South Kensington, and their family, overturned on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lady Motorist Injured
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 12 April 1926 · page 4
Miss Nora Stacey, aged 19, living at Abbott-street, West Maitland, was treated at the Newcastle Hospital on Saturday night for a fractured…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Harbour Bridge
Singleton Argus · Tuesday 13 April 1926 · page 3
Also in The Muswellbrook Chronicle
The work of censtrucling the Sydney Harbour Bridge is proceeding so rapidly Unit it is expected that the first section of 288 feet will be ready for erection in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bridge at Maison Dieu
Singleton Argus · Tuesday 13 April 1926 · page 2
Mr W. Bennett, M.L.A., has been informed by the Under-Secretary to the Public Works Department that instructions have been given for the taking…
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