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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1927

4,115 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 60 of 206

Clearance of Roads. Village of Kearsley

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Thursday 14 April 1927 · page 2

Mr. [?] Booth, M.L.A., in answer to representations made by him to the Under Secretary for Lands, has now been informed that the district…

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Fireman's Peculiar Accident. Hit by Bridge Beam

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Thursday 14 April 1927 · page 1

Mr. Martin Gill, of Buddon's Lane, Muswellbrook, is at present an inmate of Brentwood Hospital as a result of injuries received in a peculiar way…

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Weston Progress Association. The Bridge and the Lights

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Thursday 14 April 1927 · page 3

Messrs. J. Ellis (president), G. Avis, W. Wardle,—Hails, G. Reed, Bryce, Tate and J. Pearson (secretary), were present at the…

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Camping Sites for Motorists

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Thursday 14 April 1927 · page 2

The Bathurst Municipal Council has appointed a camping ground for motorists within the municipality in Carringtoh Park. The site, which is an ideal…

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Round the World. Women Motorists

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Thursday 14 April 1927 · page 1

Miss Violet Cord cry, who recently set out from England to do a 12,000 miles motor tour around the world has arrived at Fremantle. She is…

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Motor Notes

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Thursday 14 April 1927 · page 3
Also in The Scone Advocate

Addressing Australian motor traders in Perth (W.A.) recently, Lt.-Col. Alfred Hacking, secretary of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and…

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Remarkable Motor Accident

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Thursday 14 April 1927 · page 6

A remarkable motor accident occurred at Mount's Bay-road, Perth (W.A.) early on Saturday morning, when a motor car driven by Charles…

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Damages Awarded. Injured in Motor Cycle Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 April 1927 · page 3

In the District Court, Sydney, before Judge Edwards and a jury, High HEnry Lord, master carrier, of Dulwich Hill, sued James Robertshaw…

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Boy Killed. Struck by Motor Car

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 April 1927 · page 6

A motor car fatally injured Norman Charles Lindbergh (5), of Mosman, at 5.30 p.m. on Wednesday. The boy was walking across the road when the…

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Motor Cycles Collide Young Man Killed

Singleton Argus · Thursday 14 April 1927 · page 4

Walter R. Brenner, aged 25, of Burwood, was killed, and Stanley Hill, of Alexandria, and Joly Molloy, also of Alexandria, were injured as the result…

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Bungling Queer Railway Methods

Singleton Argus · Thursday 14 April 1927 · page 2

A man travelled from Junee to Bulliac, on the Queensland border, and back, a distance of 1600 miles, to do four days' work in connection with the…

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Motor Mechanic's Plight. Rescued by Councillors

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Thursday 14 April 1927 · page 2

On Tuesday night, Mr. H. Curry, a motor mechanic in the employ of the Kearsley Shire Council had an experience which was the reverse of…

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Outlet to Road

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 15 April 1927 · page 3

Messrs. Elliott and Waller solicitors, wrote re the application by Miss Mary Daunt for a road to her Mill Creek property. Council has…

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The Peach Tree-carrymore Road

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 15 April 1927 · page 3

The Department, of Lands wrote, re the road in Peach Trees Estate, that notification of the establishment of this road appeared in the…

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Car And Sulky Collide Maitland-road Fatality

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 15 April 1927 · page 2

One man was killed and two were injured when a motor car and a sulky collided on the Newcastle-Maitland road on Saturday evening…

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Bridge Building Settlers Helping Themselves

Singleton Argus · Saturday 16 April 1927 · page 1

A bridge is wanted across the Murrumbidgee River at Yanco, and the settlers believe in the policy that if they help themselves the Government…

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Harbour Bridge First Bearing in Position

Singleton Argus · Saturday 16 April 1927 · page 6

Workmen were engaged on Tuesday screwing down in its exact position the first of the huge bearings which will carry the tremendous weight of the…

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Harbour Bridge. First Bearing in Position

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 April 1927 · page 5

Workmen were engaged on Tuesday screwing down in its exact position the first of the huge bearings which will carry the tremendous weight of…

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Remarkable Escape. Car and Train Collide

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 16 April 1927 · page 2

Mr. V. A. Cant, of Muswellbrook. was driving a motor car at the level crossing on the Morpeth Road, near the East Maitland railway station…

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