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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1928

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N.R.M.A. Notes Roads and Railways

The Scone Advocate · Friday 27 January 1928 · page 4

The N.R.M.A. is in receipt of the following interesting authoritative statement from America concerning road betterment in the United States…

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Cessnock-awaba Road

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 27 January 1928 · page 10

Recently Mr. J. M. Baddeley, M.L.A., made an inspection of the road from Toronto to Cessnock. The object of the inspection was…

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Broke-cessnock Road

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 27 January 1928 · page 3

The case for the construction of the road from Broke to Cessnock was presented to the Main Roads Board by Mr. J. M. Baddeley, M.P.,…

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Train Derailed. Accident at Sandgate

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 27 January 1928 · page 3

The passenger train due at Newcastle from West Maitland at 3.24 p.m. yesterday, became derailed entering Sandgate station…

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Collision on Newcastle Road

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 27 January 1928 · page 4

When a motor cycle and side car, and a motor car, came into collision at Two Milke Creek, on the Newcastle road, late yesterday afternoon…

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Train Leaves Rails Mishap at Sandgate

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 27 January 1928 · page 10

The passenger train due at Newcastle from West Maitland at 3.24 p.m. yesterday, became derailed entering Sandgate station…

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Lorry Drivers and Road Hogs

The Scone Advocate · Friday 27 January 1928 · page 4

While it is always unjust to pick out a class of driver and classify them as road hogs, says the N.R.M.A., the drivers of lorries may be said to…

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Callous Drivers Anti-road Hog League Formed

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 27 January 1928 · page 2

Motor car accidents in Australia are now, on an average, causing one death and injury to 10 persons daily. This was one of the…

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Cessnock-awaba Road. Scope for Many Unemployed

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Friday 27 January 1928 · page 8

Mr. J. M. Baddeley, M.L.A, [?]age an inspection of the road from Toronto to Cessnock at the week-end. The object of the inspection was to present…

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Where Roads Grow. Speedy Construction in America. Shire Engineer's Impressions

The Scone Advocate · Friday 27 January 1928 · page 5

Mr. R. Thornton, Severn Shire Engineer, made road-making a study in the course of his tour of England and America, and he will no doubt turn…

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Broke Cessnock Road a Most Important Thorough fare

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Friday 27 January 1928 · page 5

Mr. J. M Baddelw M.L.A., recently presented the case for the construction of the road from Broke to Cessnock to the Main Roads Board and, in…

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Road Strike Serious Position Developed. Threat To Declare Job Black. SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 27 January 1928 · page 5

A serious position has developed as a result of 280 men employed on the Main Roads Board work at Wiseman's Perry. They declare they will…

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Motor Liner. Mammoth Italian Ship "Impossible to Sink"

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 27 January 1928 · page 7

Full information concerning the mammoth motor liner Augustus, of the Navigazione Generale Italiana fleet, was brought to…

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Refund Op Motor Tax

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 27 January 1928 · page 7

Queensland can show a point to New South Wales in the matter of fairness regarding motor taxation. While motorists…

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Gloucester. Hailstorm Does Damage. Motor Car Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 27 January 1928 · page 2

There was a large number of buyers at the special cattle sale held by D. R. Waddell and Co. last week, and the market was one of the…

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Factional Fight. A.w.u. Railway Workers. Dispute Unsettled

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 27 January 1928 · page 2

The annual convention of the A.W.U., in session at Hobart, continued its discussion on the factional fight in the Sydney Railway Workers'…

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Motor Car Stolen. Police Make Arrest in Mait-land

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Friday 27 January 1928 · page 5

A motor car, owned by Mr. Sam Horne of Vincent Street, was stolen from outside his premises between 8 and 9 o’clock last night…

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Motor Hire

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Friday 27 January 1928 · page 4

The Hunter District Water Board has accepted a tender for hire on motor cars in the Maitland district for 1928, The successful tenderer…

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Cessnock-morriset Railway

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Friday 27 January 1928 · page 8

Mr. J. M. Baddeley. M.L.A., has again taken up the question of the construction of the Cesenock-Minimbah railway and, in a letter to the…

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Poulton’s Motors

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Friday 27 January 1928 · page 3

Poulton's Motors Ltd announce in our advertising columns their opening of up-to-date showrooms in Vincent-Street, Cessnock, for the display of…

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