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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport
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Word reached us yesterday, of a shocking aeroplane fatality in Queensland, in which two were killed out right, and another fatally injured…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The secretary of the Northern District Branch of the N.R.M.A. Newcastle has received the following letter from Mr. A. E. Vesper…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →We understand that the Main Roads Board has made an offer of 25000 to be expended on the Dry Creek-Tomalla road to the end of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →During the week Mr. W, H. Pearce, of Cessnock, received an invitation to be present in Sydney on the occasion of the presentation of the Albert Medal to Stanley Gibbs, the hero of the Port Hacking shark tragedy. The presentation to Gibbs is to be made at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Eric May, aged 29, of East Melbourne, was driving a car, when the steering guar failed, aud the ear overturned. May was pinned underneath…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The "direct action" tactics of the present New South Wales Government in bludgeoning through, without any adequate discussion, and in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Attempting to jump on to the footboard of a steam tram at Kogarah, a schoolboy, Richard Giford, aged 8 ½ years, fell, and rolled under the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. A. S. Drakeford, general secretary of the Australian Federated Union of Locomotive Enginemen. said that the log served upon his union by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The annual interstate cricket match between Queensland and New South Wales railwaymen ended in Queensland winning by two runs on the first…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Government's Railway Amendment Bill, now before Parliament, empowers the Government to dispense with the services of any Commissioner…
Continued on Trove, 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…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Three persons were killed when a Quantas aeroplane, belonging to the Queensland and Northern Territory Air Service, crashed a Tambo on Thursday…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A German pilot, Herr Echnabelle flew at Dessau Aerodrome, a Junker 350-horse power aeroplane for 16 Hours, loaded with 500 kilogrammes…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Some time after the Albury mail train had left, Junee for Cootamundra the alarm button warned the guard that something was amiss, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Mrs. Emily Allen was standing on the platform at Rhodes railway station this morning, and as a train approached, she walked towards the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mr. Bruxner asked the Minister for Railways in the Assembly whether he would ascertain if it ware a fact that several of the men…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A sensation was caused on the Sydney mail on Saturday while the train was speeding between Nyngan and Dubbo…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →A man, aged 56 years, jumped from the Suspension Bridge, North Sydney, an Friday afternoon, but falling on a soft mudbank 100 feet below, did not…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Crashing through the rails of Carrington Bridge last night, a motor car with seven passengers plunged into the water. Two were killed,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Colliding with a motor waggon at Clovelly, last evening, Ernest. McVie, aged 20 years, a motor cyclist, of Coogee, was thrown heavily to the…
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