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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1927

4,115 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 46 of 206

Barrington Tops. Offer to Assist in Road Construction. £5000 to Be Spent From This Side

The Scone Advocate · Friday 18 March 1927 · page 2

We understand that the Main Roads Board has made an offer of £5000 to be expended on the Dry Creek-Tomalla road, to the end of commencing the…

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N.r.m.a. Motor Mechanics Examination

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 18 March 1927 · page 3

The N.R.M.A. announces that the next Motor Mechanics' Examination will be held at the Sydney Technical College (Turner Hall) on Monday, the…

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N. R. M. A. Notes Motorists Visiting Canberra

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 18 March 1927 · page 3

The N.R.M.A. announces that it is ists that a special ordinance governing motor traffic in the Federal Capital is now in operation. One section…

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Handy Motor Saw

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 18 March 1927 · page 9

—They are turned out in Germany, and can be used for felling timber or cuttinq log[?]…

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Across Europe. Motor Adventure. Hard Travelling. London

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 18 March 1927 · page 7

Advices from Constantinople show that the Imperial Six car, with the Ellis-Birtles expedition to Australia, was the first car through from London to…

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No Extra Pay Trammen and Royal Visit, Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 18 March 1927 · page 5

The Railway Commissioners state that they do not see their way to Rive any direction in respect to the request of the tramway employees…

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Correspondence. Record Breaking Motorists (To the Editor)

The Scone Advocate · Friday 18 March 1927 · page 8

Sir,—In your issue of the 8th inst. in your report of the Upper Hunter Shire Council's meeting, it is noted that the Council has co-operated with the…

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Heddon Greta Bridge Letter From Main Roads Board

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 March 1927 · page 9

A letter was received by Kearsley Shire Administrator from the Main Roads Board, with reference to the maintenance of the Heddon-Greta…

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Motor Traffic and Roads

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 March 1927 · page 8

it is apparent that the rapidly increasing motor traffic on highways will cause the maintainence of roads to be more difficult for public bodies…

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Queer Cargoes. Difficult Railway Roads

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 March 1927 · page 3

Not long ago a truckload of rattlesnakes, destined for a Californian institute interested in the study of poisons, caused considerable excitement…

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Grant for Hall's Creek Bridge

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 March 1927 · page 6

Hon, Walter Bennett, M.L.A., has received a communication from the Local Government Department, intimating that, in pursuance of an…

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Not Grave Danger. Motor Racing Along Roads. Police Reports to Minister. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 March 1927 · page 16

In the Legislative Assembly, the Chief Secretary said that reports from the police stated that there was not a grave danger as a result of…

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Recaptured Prisoner Who Escaped From Train

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 March 1927 · page 11

Ernest Thompson, alias Dalvine, who escaped from a police escort, while being brought from Melbourne to Sydney, early last month, was…

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Skull Fractured. Knocked Down by Train

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 March 1927 · page 4

John Campbell (16), of Short-street, Canterbury, was severely injured by a train between Canterbury and Campsie railway stations on…

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Fell Into Mud Man's Leap From Suspension Bridge

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 March 1927 · page 2

A man, aged 50 years, jumped from the Suspension Bridge, North Sydney, an Friday afternoon, but falling on a soft mudbank 100 feet below, did not…

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Skull Fractured. Girl Falls From Train. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 March 1927 · page 7

Sylvia Hall, 14, while standing on the back platform of a moving train, near Lewisham railway station, overbalanced and fell on to the track…

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Seriously Injured. Train Crashes Into Tricycle. Brisbane

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 March 1927 · page 14

Sidney Richards, 44, was severely injured when a train crashed into a railway tricycle he was riding near King's siding…

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Precarious Ride. Boy on Train Buffers. Katoomba

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 March 1927 · page 16

A lad of twelve, who ran away from home at Lithgow, had an exciting adventure before he was found. The local police telephoned the…

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Child Killed. Run Down by Motor Car

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 March 1927 · page 2

Muriel Hain, aged 5 years, lately resident with her parents in Nelson-street Rozelle, was knocked down by a motor car in Evans-street, Roselle,…

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Railway Time-Table

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 March 1927 · page 6

The railway time-table, giving times of departures, of trains from West Maitland and from other stations for West Maitland, is…

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