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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1928

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Allandale Road Bridge

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 2 March 1928 · page 9

Ald. Brown, at last night's meeting its occupant. An empty flask Council, moved that the engineer chaw up plans and specifications for…

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Big Petition. Regarding Allandale Road Bridge

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Friday 2 March 1928 · page 5

Two hundred and eighty one names were attached to a petition before the municipal council last night, protesting against the construction of a…

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Petition of Protest. Allendale Road Bridge, Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 2 March 1928 · page 5

Two hundred and clghty-one names were attached to a petition before the Municipal Council last night, protesting against the construction of a…

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Bridge at Weston

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 2 March 1928 · page 2

The present state of the bridge at "Chinaman's Hollow", Weston was referred to by Mr. J. Pearson it Tuesday night's meeting of the…

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Getting on with Better Roads

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 2 March 1928 · page 6

The N.K.M.A. states that road users throughout New South Wales are justified in being greatly heartened by the intimation by the Minister for…

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Concrete Bridge for Westcott-street

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 2 March 1928 · page 10

On the motion of Ald. Perkins, Cessnock Municipal Council last night decked to instruct the engineer to immediately draw up plans…

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The New Northern Road

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 2 March 1928 · page 9

The most definite thing that can be said at the moment about the proposed new road from Sydney to Newcastle is that the formations on the…

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Deputation to Minister Tarro Roads Question

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 2 March 1928 · page 3

During the week a deputation from the Tarro Shire Council and adjoining shires which were interested, waited on the Minister for Local Government…

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The Motor World

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 2 March 1928 · page 7

If the Colo Shire Council has its way, says the N.R.M.A., the antiquated punt, across the Macdonald River at Book's Ferry is doomed. The…

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Police and Motorists

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 2 March 1928 · page 7

A complaint from a member alleging unwarrantable conduct on the part of the police is ventilated by the N. R.M.A. He states that, having'…

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Motor Racing. to Attack Record. Americans Building Cars, London, Feb. 29

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 2 March 1928 · page 6

Speaking at a acing motorists dinner at the Piccadilly Hotel to Mr. W. H. Paull, Dunlop's tyre expert, Major Seagrave, referring to…

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Oar and Motor Cycle Collide, Collide

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 2 March 1928 · page 5

Shortly after mid-day to-day a motor bicycle and side-car, ridden and aoupied by Captain and Mrs. Lee Page, of the Salvation Army,…

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Motor Club’s Run

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Friday 2 March 1928 · page 5

Cessnock Motor Cycle Club held a successful run to Wangi last Sunday. In the afternoon a programme of events was staged, and resulted as…

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Sanitary Conveniences. Absent in South Maitland Railway Cars

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Friday 2 March 1928 · page 4

Recently Cessnock Municipal Council wrote to the South Maitland Railways complaining of the absence of sanitary conveniences on passenger…

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Australian Roads. Views of English Motor Manufacturer

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 3 March 1928 · page 3

Mr. W.R. Morris, the English motor car manufacturer, who arrived at bury, alter travelling by road from Yass, said, at a dinner given in his…

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Fishery Creek Bridge

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 3 March 1928 · page 4

Mr. Thwaites, who has the contract for the construction of a new bridge over Fishery Creek, on the Maitland to Kurri road, hoped to…

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Proposed Conerete Road

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 3 March 1928 · page 4

Recently, at West Maitland, a deputation waited on Mr. Buttenshaw, and urged that a concrete road be put through the towns of…

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Fatal Fall. Harbour Bridge Fatality

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 3 March 1928 · page 9

Another fatality occurred on the Sydney Harbour Bridge construction on the 24th ultimo, when William Woods, a labourer, lost his footing…

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New Aeroplane, Vertical Rise and Descent. London, Feb. 24

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 3 March 1928 · page 12

A Namur message says: M, Ruttlens, an ex—student of a military aviation school, has patented a new type of airplane which it is claimed will…

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Killed by Train. Man Dragged Forty Yards

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 3 March 1928 · page 9

Williams Theodore Snell aged 25 years, a railway employee, of Denison—street, Newtown, was dragged 40 yards by a train near Lewisham…

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