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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1929

3,969 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 12 of 199

Congewai to Martinsville Road

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 18 January 1929 · page 9

In connection with an agitation by agriculturists for a developmental road from Congewai to Martinsville, Messrs. Baddeley and Booth…

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Country Roads Spending a Quarter Million

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 18 January 1929 · page 2

Avocations for maintenance work on State highways during the year ending June 30, 1929, totalling £2[?],293, have been made by the Main…

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Weston Overhead Bridge Petition From Residents

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 18 January 1929 · page 9

In view of the importance of the petition signed by the large number of Weston residents, concerning the alteration of the main road at…

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Sign Near Weston Bridge Wants Removing

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 18 January 1929 · page 2

"1 think we should bring under the notice of the Council the danger caused by the sign and a couple of trees being allowed to remain at the…

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Proposed Lake Road Objection to Route

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 18 January 1929 · page 10

Objection to the proposed route of the Kurri-Lake Road was raised at a meeting of the Weston Progress Association, at its meeting on…

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Colliery Idle Road Measurement. Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 18 January 1929 · page 4

Aberdare Central Colliery was idle to-day. The wheelers held a meeting and expressed dissatisfaction at the measurement of their "roads."…

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Gloucester Shire President's Minute. Diversion of Main North Coast Road

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 18 January 1929 · page 4

The following minute was submitted by the President of Gloucester Shire Council: "That in view of action that is now being taken to…

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Unemployed Outburst Concerning Broke Road Member of Deputation Calls Cr. Burns a "Mussolini." Council Accused of Holding Up the Work

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 18 January 1929 · page 9

There were no beg-pardons about the deputation from the O.B.U. of that waited on the Kearsley Shire Council last night concerning the…

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Motorists Warned. Driving Without Lights

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 18 January 1929 · page 2

At Wednesday's meeting of the council Ald. Gentleman alleged that motorists were driving their cars at night time without having head and tail…

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The Motor World

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 18 January 1929 · page 3

Those who are in intimate touch with the world's automobile markets estimate that open cars will constitute less than 10 per cent. of…

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Gloucester. Motor Collision

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 18 January 1929 · page 2

What might have been a serious accident happened on the Mograni Hill on Thursday last, when two motor cars came into collision on the…

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Wheat Harvest Quick Despatch by the Railways

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 18 January 1929 · page 2

Up to the beginning of this week nearly 18½ million bushels of wheat had been despatched from country stations. Of that quantity almost…

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Fractured Spine. Railway Worker Injurer. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 18 January 1929 · page 5

Phillip polliger, 46, a carpenter, employed on the railway construction work in George Strect, City. fell 25 feet from a seaffold down a pit to-day…

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Careless Motorist Causes Street Fire

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 18 January 1929 · page 6

Carelessness in exposing a naked flame while filling at a petrol bowser was responsible for a fierce blaze in the main street of Kempsey…

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Rail and Motor. Government Policy

The Scone Advocate · Friday 18 January 1929 · page 3

The growing competition between the railways and the motor vehicles which run upon the adjacent roads was referred to by the Premier (Mr. Bavin)…

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Motoring & Cycling Notes

Singleton Argus · Friday 18 January 1929 · page 4

Frequently it happens that the owner of a car which has given him good service decides to change it for another of tho same make, but with a new type…

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Warning to Motorists

Singleton Argus · Friday 18 January 1929 · page 6

Arising out of a charge at the Singleton Police Court to-day for a breach of the traffic regulations, Mr C. R. Whitfield asked his Worship to draw…

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Shipbuilding Motor Ships Increasing

Singleton Argus · Friday 18 January 1929 · page 8

London, Wednesday.—"Lloyd's Register of Shipping" states that vessels being constructed at the end of December in the British Isles showed an…

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Thrilling Escape Motorist at Level Crossing

Singleton Argus · Friday 18 January 1929 · page 5

Mr H. Carstens had an amazing escape when a goods train ran down the car he was driving at a level crossing at Raleigh, and smashed the motor to…

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Motor Vehicle Licenses

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 18 January 1929 · page 5

Sixty-three motor vehicle licenses were issued by the Cessnock Municipal Council during the year 1928, and fees amounting to £63 were…

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