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Hunter Valley · Railways, roads & transport

Railways, roads & transport, 1929

3,969 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 49 of 199

Motor Car Stolen While Owner Was in Church

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 26 March 1929 · page 1

Thomas Rockley and Frank Shields, or Cessnock were committed for trial at the Grafton Court recently on a charge of stealing a car…

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Trappand Bridge

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 March 1929 · page 6

A letter was received from the town clerk of West Maitland, Mr. C. T. McLean, at the meeting of East Maitland Council last evening,…

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Road

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 March 1929 · page 8

Station Lane has received, no attention for some considerable time, and is in a very bad state. A visit by the Shire Councillors and they…

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Raymond Terrace Road

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 March 1929 · page 6

The overseer of the East Maitland Council reported at last night's meeting that the reconditioning of the Raymond Terrace-road (main…

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Road Collision. Motor Smash at Night. Verdict for £100

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 March 1929 · page 6

For damages sustained in a collision between two motor cars on the Newcastle road, on the night of December 22, Cyril Clive Baliey, of…

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Fatal Fall. From Harbour Bridge

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 March 1929 · page 4

Thomas McKcown, 48, a rigger, who was killed on the Sydney Harbour Bridge, on Tuesday' afternoon, sustained dreadful injuries…

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Killed on Harbour Bridge Terrible Injuries Inflicted

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 27 March 1929 · page 3

Falling 150ft., Thomas M'Keorn, aged 48, a rigger, living at.Enmore,. was killed on the Harbour Bridge construction work in Sydney yesterday…

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Main Roads. Policy of the Board. Mr. O'heaun's Protest

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 March 1929 · page 8

Speaking in the Legislative Assembly on the Main Roads Amendment Bill. Mr. O'Hearn said: I support the remarks of hon…

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Atlantic Hop Spanish Aeroplane Reaches Bahia. (Australian Press Assn. Message.) Rio de Janiero

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 27 March 1929 · page 2

The Spanish aeroplane landed at Bahia at 10.30 a.m. this morning, after completing the South Atlantic hop…

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The Road to Utopia Quite Easy to Follow If Mr Davies Be Correct (Issued by the Sane Democracy League)

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 27 March 1929 · page 4

Mr Davies, General Secretary of the Miners' Federation, addressing the Constitutional Association in Sydney, argued that the unsatisfactory…

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Bonus System. in Victorian Railway Workshops. Melbourne

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 March 1929 · page 7

The ban Imposed by the Labour Ministry on the bonus and butty gang system in Newport and other railway workshops is to be removed…

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Pulverised Coal Victorian Railways

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 March 1929 · page 10

The Miniser for Railways, Mr. Groves, will visit the Government Coaimines at Wonthaggi to inquire further concerning the possibilities…

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Eight Injured. Trams in Collision. Rozelle Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 March 1929 · page 5

Eight persons were injured, most of them only slightly, when two trams came into collision in Weaton-road, near the White Bay…

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Motor Cyclist Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 March 1929 · page 6

When a motor cycle he was riding along Newcastle-street, East Maitland, last evening, struck a rut near the Lands Office, Edward Fletcher,…

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Chinaman's Hollow Bridge

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Thursday 28 March 1929 · page 6

Mr. J. Lawson, contractor for the erection of a concrete bridge at the site of the existing structure (but three feet higher) had almost…

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Cessnock Street Bridge

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Thursday 28 March 1929 · page 7

Aid Pryor, at last night's meeting of the Municipal Council, made reference to this bridge which had been washed away in Cessnock-street…

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To-night's Train

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Thursday 28 March 1929 · page 7

South Maitland Railways, Ltd., advise that, despite an announcement in last issue that there would be no 11 p.m. train from Cessnock…

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Higher Wages. for Harbour Bridge Workers

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 28 March 1929 · page 3

"A community which asks such unusual service must be prepared to offer unusual wages," said Judge Beeby in the Commonwealth Arbitration…

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Mount View Road (To the Editor)

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Thursday 28 March 1929 · page 9

Sir,—Cheap sneers generally get you nowhere; and that is what some recent letter-writers indulged in when replying to one another re the…

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"Worse Off Than Before." Armidale and Main Roads Board

The Scone Advocate · Thursday 28 March 1929 · page 2

Armidale aldermen are full up of the Main Roads Board and its methods, one saying at a recent meeting: "They do all the dictation and we have to…

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